China has reportedly sentenced four tomb robbers to death. The U.S. government returned 18 Maya artifacts to El Salvador that had been stolen from an archaeological site and sold on the Internet by a Salvadoran couple. Other objects were recovered in El Salvador, but many that had been sold in Japan, Britain, Canada, and France […]

The 500-year-old well-preserved mummy of a woman was discovered at a construction site outside of Seoul, South Korea. Her husband’s tomb is expected to be found nearby. “This mummy will help us study life during the early days of the Joseon Dynasty,” said archaeologist Kim Woo-rim. Czech and Danish scientists plan to exhume the remains […]