2+ hour, 52+ min ago  (516+ words) Itaii Gradel, the Danish classical gems specialist whose investigations revealed that hundreds of objects had been stolen from the British Museum, died on 28 April at the age of 61. His painstaking research eventually led to the resignation of the museum's director…...

5+ day, 10+ hour ago  (472+ words) Archaeologists working at the ancient Maya site of Ucanal in Guatemala have identified a building in which leaders may have discussed political decisions more than 1, 000 years ago. Described as a council house, it was built during a tumultuous era in…...

1+ week, 5+ day ago  (534+ words) Specialists from Mexico's Instituto Nacional de Antropolog'a e Historia (INAH) announced this week that they have recorded 16 petroglyphs and cave paintings dating from prehistory and the Mesoamerican Postclassic period (AD900-AD1521) located on two cliffs near the Tula River and the La…...

1+ week, 6+ day ago  (411+ words) An aerial view of the archaeological site at Tell el-Farama, Egypt Courtesy of the Egyptian Ministry of Tourism and Antiquities A temple discovered in northern Sinai, Egypt, offers an exceptional window on to "civilised interaction" between Egypt and the rest…...

2+ week, 4+ day ago  (266+ words) Mexico's National Institute of Anthropology and History (INAH) recently announced the discovery of a well-preserved pre-Hispanic stone altar with offerings and human remains. The finding, near the Toltec site Tula Chico in Hidalgo in central Mexico, was made during archaeological…...

2+ week, 6+ day ago  (427+ words) A ring (probably before 1874), part of the Asante regalia within the Victoria and Albert Museum's collection The Victoria and Albert Museum in London (V&A) has launched a webpage dedicated to research into the provenance of its objects. The page shines…...

3+ week, 4+ hour ago  (319+ words) A new Colorado State University study reveals that'the earliest known dice'in human history were made and used by Native American hunter-gatherers on the western Great Plains more than 12, 000 years ago. This was at the end of the last Ice Age…...

3+ week, 5+ day ago  (427+ words) The Helmet of Cotofenesti (c. 45 BC) A golden helmet from the ancient eastern European Dacian civilisation stolen last year in a smash and grab from a Dutch museum has been recovered and revealed'surrounded by armed police'at a press conference in Assen....

1+ mon, 3+ day ago  (322+ words) The walls of the ancient city of Alexandria Hauser calls the "ill-advised" Israeli and US attack on Iran "a complete catastrophe" in many respects. "The Iraqi airspace is closed and there is hardly any other way to enter or leave…...

1+ mon, 1+ week ago  (493+ words) Mexico's cultural ministry has identified 195 pre-Hispanic archaeological objects listed for sale on e Bay by a user based in the US. The ministry has called on the internet auction platform to remove the listings and return the items to Mexico,…...