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 […]

The 12,000-year-old grave of a Natufian woman is being called one of the earliest known shaman burial sites by Leore Grosman of Hebrew University. The woman’s body had been held in a special position with large stones. Complete tortoise shells, and body parts from a wild boar, an eagle, a cow, a leopard, two martens, […]