A bronze, enameled rooster figurine was discovered in a Roman child’s grave in Gloucestershire, England. “Interestingly a very similar item was found in Cologne in Germany and it looks like they both could have come from the same workshop based in Britain,” said archaeologist Neil Holbrook. The Tomb of the Scipios will reopen for guided tours in […]

The Slemani Museum in the Kurdistan region of Iraq has taken the controversial position of buying back looted artifacts from smugglers. “The position of not just UNESCO but the international museum community is that we don’t buy back looted objects because it encourages looting,” said Stuart Gibson of the UNESCO Sulaimaniya Museum Project. Dominic Perring of […]