Lorenzo Casamenti and his students at the Lorenzo de’ Medici restoration school have developed a treatment for the lichen attacking Easter Island’s Moai. “We have at long last discovered a solvent that destroys the lichen but not the statues,” he said. The five-year forgery trial of Tel Aviv artifact collector Oded Golan and other defendants […]

The top half of a 3,000-year-old red-granite statue of Amenhotep III has been unearthed near the northern entrance to his temple in Luxor, Egypt. More than 130 reports of vandalism against Arizona’s archaeological sites have been filed in the past year, including petroglyph thefts, paint damage, graffiti, and garbage dumping. “I don’t see an easy […]