The Euphronios krater will return to Italy after a final weekend on view at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City. The museum purchased the pot from antiquities dealer Robert Hecht, who is now on trial in Rome for allegedly trafficking in stolen artifacts, in 1972.

More than 3,000 artifacts looted from central Europe were discovered by firefighters in a Prague apartment. The collector died in the fire.

What is the best way to protect the 3.7-million-year-old hominid tracks in Tanzania? Nature presents the options.

Scientists from the University of Indianapolis will attempt to identify the remains of Belle “the Black Widow” Gunness, a notorious female serial killer who reportedly died in 1908. Or did she fake her death, move to California, and continue killing for another 23 years?

Construction crews uncovered human bones while digging the foundation for a parking garage in Lexington, Virginia.

This dreadful article by a television station in Marion, Illinois, describes 1,600-year-old pottery fragments, animal bones, stone tools, and charcoal found at a construction site.

The Tongan fishing village of Nukuleka is said to be the oldest settlement in Polynesia. Lapita pottery at the site has been dated to 2,900 years ago.

There is evidence from the site of Pattanam, on the southwest coast of India, of maritime trade with cultures near the Mediterranean, the Red Sea, the Arabian Sea, and the South China Sea dating back to 500 B.C.

Blogger K. Kris Hirst has some comments on Gregory Jaynes’ article, “The Mummy’s Curse: An Archaeological Dispute,” in the January issue of Harper’s. She also suggests that mummy’s curses on archaeologists may actually be having journalists drop by their sites.

Recent reports of lead and mercury in makeup prompted this short history of cosmetics.