Did Neanderthals take refuge in Russia, near the Arctic Circle, as late as 33,000 years ago? Archaeologists have found Mousterian tools that might have been made by Neanderthals, along with the bones of woolly rhinoceros, reindeer, musk ox, brown bear, wolf, and polar fox, in the Ural Mountains. Yesterday, the U.S. returned Peruvian textiles, pottery, […]

James Cuno has been named president and CEO of the J. Paul Getty Trust, which adopted a policy in 2007 that new museum acquisitions must have a clear ownership history dating back to 1970. Yet Cuno has argued against laws that give governments ownership of artifacts found within their borders. “We’re bound to bring works […]