Erosion of a coastal cliff at Curium, Cyprus, has revealed an intact skeleton. “It’s not a contemporary grave. It is over 200 years old or from the Middle Ages or possibly the Christian period. It’s difficult to date because we found nothing else buried with it,” said Maria Hadjicosti, director of Cyprus’ Antiquities Department. Archaeologists […]

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 […]