Roman-style wall paintings have been uncovered at the fortress of Herodium, thought to be the home and burial place of King Herod, the Jewish proxy ruler under Roman occupation during the first century B.C. “There has been no other discovery of this type of painting in the Middle East, as far as we know, until […]

William Fash, director of Harvard University’s Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology, wants to return some 50 pieces of carved Maya jade collected in the early twentieth century by American consul Edward Herbert Thompson. Mexico accused Thompson at the time of taking the artifacts illegally, and filed an unsuccessful lawsuit. French mineralogist Francois Farges is […]