Three tractor-trailers packed full of looted antiquities will be returned to Italy by two art dealers from Switzerland, once the hub of the artifact trade. “The market has moved on to Germany, which has far looser laws,” said Swiss archaeologist Guido Lassau. The minerals in a stalagmite from a cave in China are telling scientists […]

A Ch’ing Dynasty coin was unearthed during the excavation of a nineteenth-century building in the Chinatown section of Darwin, Australia. Australian coins, medicine vials, buttons, beads, and a buckle from a soldier’s belt were also found. Shimoni, Kenya, is known for its caves, where slaves were shackled while awaiting transport to the slave market in […]