The artifacts, known as the Benin Bronzes and mostly housed in a museum in Leiden, were looted in the late 19th century by ...
Malcolm Weale was in a farmer’s field with his metal detector when he unearthed a tiny and dirt-covered object ...
A workshop outside Rome containing 71 fake paintings falsely attributed to famous artists including Rembrandt van Rijn, Pablo ...
It's the first time such a find has been made on the European mainland ... according to a news release from the National Museum of Antiquities in the Netherlands. Also found among the Roman ...
The museum dropped a legal effort to block the seizure of the statue by investigators who said the bronze, thought by some to ...
A fierce dispute has erupted in Nicosia over plans to approve high-rise buildings near the historic Famagusta gate, with Cypriot archaeologists warning of irreversible damage to the city’s mediaeval ...
The Netherlands have officially signed a transfer agreement to give back their Benin Bronzes to Nigeria. On Thursday, January 20, 119 artefacts from the Benin Bronze collection were signed over at a ...
Ancient statues have also been found in trash before in other parts of Europe. In 2023, a Roman-era statuette of Venus was discovered in a trash dump in Rennes, France. That same year, ancient bronze ...
From Norwegian Fjords and Baltic capital cities to the Cote de Azur and Aegean antiquities, there are thousands ...