A gold earring inlaid with pearls and emeralds was discovered during the excavation of a Byzantine building in Jerusalem. The Israel Antiquities Authority says the “astonishingly well-preserved” jewelry was crafted sometime between the first century B.C. and the beginning of the fourth century A.D. Using 450-year-old transcripts of the Inquisition trials of Maya heretics, archaeologist […]

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 […]