The name of a previously unknown 17th Dynasty pharaoh has been discovered at Egypt’s Karnak Temple Complex. Scientists have examined the more than 9,000 coins and other artifacts that were confiscated by police earlier this week, when they broke up a suspected antiquities smuggling network and made more than 40 arrests. Most of the artifacts are thought […]

Turkish officials have requested the return of several mosaics in a letter to Ohio’s Bowling Green State University. The university purchased the mosaics from a New York art dealer in 1965, and raised a red flag when recent research didn’t add up with the information provided by the seller. (The mosaics are thought to have been […]