The Ny Carlsberg Glyptotek in Copenhagen is reluctant to return bronze Etruscan artifacts to Italy, despite evidence that they were looted from a tomb in the Colle del Forno necropolis. “For now we have to evaluate the good or bad faith of the buyer. The sin has almost been ascertained, let’s see if we will absolve them,” said Paolo Giorgio Ferri, the prosecutor at the Italian trial of art dealer Robert Hecht, who sold the objects to the Danish museum.

More than 10,000 cave paintings have been found in Peru’s lush jungles of Amazonas over the past two years. Many of the 6,000-year-old paintings depict hunting scenes.  

A new study published in Analytical Chemistry validates accelerator mass spectrometry as a method for dating rock art.

Here’s how police in Jakarta recovered a Buddha statue stolen from a museum last week.  

Visit a medieval Irish monastery on Skellig Michael, called “an incredible, impossible, mad place,” by George Bernard Shaw in 1910.  

Viking invaders eventually got along with the Anglo-Saxons and Celts living in Britain, according to researchers at Cambridge University. “They started building settlements and interacting with the locals and become assimilated into their culture and influenced them in many ways,” said senior lecturer Maire Ni Mhaonaigh.   

Zephyrhills, Florida, was founded as a retirement community for Civil War veterans. Archaeologist Jeff Moates of the Florida Public Archaeological Network is looking for traces of the old downtown.

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