A criminal complaint was filed yesterday against the former director of the Hillwood Museum at Long Island University. He is accused of stealing nine ancient Egyptian artifacts donated to the museum and selling them at Christie’s auction house. An early seventeenth-century village known as Argall Towne has been discovered near Jamestown, Virginia. People lived at […]

A miniature gemstone engraved with the bust of Alexander the Great has been discovered at Tel Dor, on Israel’s Mediterranean coast. “The emperor is portrayed as young and forceful, with a strong chin, straight nose, and long curly hair held in place by a diadem,” said Ayelet Gilboa of the University of Haifa. Ground-penetrating radar […]