artifacts

Throughout the 1980s, vigango, sacred wooden memorial statues, were stolen from Kenya, sold to art dealers and eventually arrived at tourist shops and museums.Now, as part of a continuing effort to repatriate these looted cultural…

Rijksmuseum, Netherland's national museum. (Image: Reuters) Sri Lanka is to receive six artifacts. These objects were wrongfully brought to the Netherlands during colonial period, said the Dutch governmentSri Lanka’s foreign minister said…

Indigenous artifacts that may be up to 4,523 years old have been found in a downtown Hamilton park, city officials say.An archeological dig at Victoria Park, where the city is also installing a spray pad, unearthed a stemmed point and…

The Supreme Court of the Netherlands on Friday ordered that a Dutch museum’s trove of historical treasures from Crimea be sent to Ukraine, upholding a lower court ruling that the 300 artifacts are part of Ukraine’s cultural heritage.…

Apollo John Rwamparo speaks forlornly of the eight-legged stool, a symbol of authority for his ancient kingdom in Uganda, now glimpsed through a glass barrier at a museum thousands of miles away in Britain. The wooden stool is…

A British tourist who was imprisoned for stealing ancient artifacts from an archaeological site has had his conviction overturned by an Iraqi court.The tourist, James Fitton, a 66-year-old retired geologist, was initially sentenced to 15…

Nearly 20 years ago, Andrea Carmen, a member of the Yaqui Nation, an Indigenous group in Mexico and the United States, was at an event commemorating International Day of Indigenous Peoples at a museum in Stockholm. Afterward, she was…

“For what purpose, no one knows,” he said. “But thanks to these people and the operational work carried out, residents of the city of Melitopol — and not only Melitopol — will be able to observe again a large collection of Scythian gold.”…

The ability to visually represent artefacts, whether inorganics like stone, ceramic and metal, or organics such as bone and plant material, has always been of great importance to the field of anthropology and archaeology. For researchers,…

The Manhattan district attorney’s office has returned to Iraq two objects that they seized from the billionaire financier Michael H. Steinhardt and which the officials said were looted during periods of war and unrest there.Last month, Mr.…