Twenty of them, this time, uncovered during city works in Cholula in the Mexican state of Puebla. They’re pre-Columbian and were buried with a variety of offerings like vases and wind instruments. Human rests were found in seating position with...

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Officials of Florence’s Istituto e Museo di Storia della Scienza (Insitute and Museum of the History of Science) announced Friday that Galileo Galilei’s right thumb, index finger and a tooth, missing since 1905, have been found. Three fingers, a...

Sometimes I wish I had never found out about how prevalent looted goods are in the antiques trade. Browsing an auction catalog of gorgeous historical pieces I could never afford used to be purely pleasurable. Now a pall is cast on every lot that has no...

He actually had the gonads to describe them as “personal effects” in his customs declaration, banking on his diplomatic immunity to ship them out of the country without setting off alarms. Unfortunately for Argentinean embassy functionary Sebastian...

The American Red Cross has been struggling with an operating deficit in the hundreds of millions of dollars for two years now. They’ve managed to reduce it, but they still have $33.5 million to scrape up from somewhere, and that somewhere is its...