Federal agents charged a group of men with trafficking in ancient Egyptian coffins and other artifacts yesterday. “Antiquities dealers and collectors are on notice that the smuggling of cultural patrimony will not be tolerated,” said Brooklyn U.S. Attorney Loretta Lynch. Human remains have been found in Scotland, at an Iron Age roundhouse built of stone. […]

Andreas Vött of Johannes Gutenberg University has studied sediments from Olympia, and he’s concluded that a series of tsunamis destroyed the ancient home of the Olympic Games, rather than an earthquake. “In earlier times, Olympia was not 22 kilometers (13.6 miles) away from the sea as it is today. Back then, the coastline was located […]