Officials from Mexico and Austria are considering a temporary exchange of artifacts as a “common cultural legacy.” Mexico would receive an Aztec feather headdress on loan from a museum in Vienna, and Austria would receive a gilded carriage used by Emperor Maximilian in the nineteenth century. Mexico has sought the return of the large, feathered […]

Italian police have claimed that the lost tomb of Caligula had been discovered south of Rome by looters, who were caught while trying to smuggle a large statue out of the country. However, Mary Beard of the University of Cambridge warns that “the details are pretty murky,” and that it “is almost inconceivable that this assassinated […]