A cache of 3,000-year-old Lapita jewelry was discovered on an island in Fiji. The shell jewelry, consisting of nine rings, four bracelets, and six necklace pieces, had been hidden under a pot. China’s terracotta army was covered with beaten eggs as a binder for colorful paints, according to analysis by German and Italian chemists.   Five […]

In Greece, Costas Carras, founder of the Hellenic Society for the Protection of the Environment and Cultural Heritage, has been accused of owning illegal artifacts. “It is ludicrous that authorities should attack the one person who has spent a lifetime preserving the items and ideas that the authorities themselves are supposed to protect,” said former politician […]