Three figurines of the goddess Aphrodite, or Venus, were unearthed at the site of Susita in the southern Golan Heights. “The figurines we found were made in a mold in rather large numbers. They would be offered to the goddess in a temple by supplicants, or kept above one’s bed,” said Arthur Segal of the […]

A 3,000-year-old oak barrel full of butter was discovered in a bog in County Kildare. “It’s a national treasure, you can’t be going hacking bits of it off for your toast!” joked Carol Smith, a conservator at the National Museum of Ireland. The market for American Indian artifacts is reportedly “cloaked in a fog of […]