Former prosecutor Paolo Giorgio Ferri spoke to Il Giornale dell’Arte about his efforts to crack down on the illegal excavation of antiquities in Italy. “Italian legislation is extremely lenient: it is easier to end up in prison for stealing a pair of jeans than it is to go to jail for stealing an ancient vase,” […]

Stone tools thought to be between 130,000 and 700,000 years old have been found on the Greek island of Crete, suggesting that humans traveled there over water. “The results of the survey not only provide evidence of sea voyages in the Mediterranean tens of thousands of years earlier than we were aware of so far, […]