What should the government of Indonesia do with the 271,000 artifacts that were salvaged from a 1,000-year-old South Asian ship? The debate heats up after no one showed for an auction earlier this week. The French government has approved the return of the heads of Maori warriors kept in French museums to New Zealand. “From […]

Researchers from the University of Barcelona have identified the pigment known as Egyptian blue on a decorated altar piece in a twelfth-century church. The pigment was used by the ancient Egyptians and the Romans, but was no longer made after the fall of the Western Roman Empire in 476 A.D. Because the church was built […]