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 […]

James Cuno, director of the Art Institute of Chicago, and Lord Renfrew, former director of the McDonald Institute for archaeological research at Cambridge University, discussed antiquities of uncertain provenance on BBC Radio. The Vatican returned a fragment of the Parthenon Marbles to Greece on a one-year loan, following a request from Orthodox Archbishop Christopoulos in […]