The Euphronios krater will return to Italy after a final weekend on view at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City. The museum purchased the pot from antiquities dealer Robert Hecht, who is now on trial in Rome for allegedly trafficking in stolen artifacts, in 1972. More than 3,000 artifacts looted from central […]

The Tongan fishing village of Nukuleka is said to be the oldest settlement in Polynesia. Lapita pottery at the site has been dated to 2,900 years ago. There is evidence from the site of Pattanam, on the southwest coast of India, of maritime trade with cultures near the Mediterranean, the Red Sea, the Arabian Sea, […]