Archaeology Isle of Wo-Man? Two 1,000-Year-Old Brooches Discovered on the U.K. Island Suggest the Presence of Female Vikings The ornate bronze objects went on view for the first time this month. By Artnet News, Dec 20, 2021
Crime In a Landmark Restitution, the U.S. Returns 200 Looted Antiquities From Top Museums and Private Collections to Italy Fun fact: one of the sculptures was linked to Kim Kardashian. By Sarah Cascone, Dec 17, 2021
Archaeology ‘You Just Don’t Find This’: U.K. Archaeologists Have Unearthed the Full Remains of a Roman Crucifixion Victim Almost 2,000 years after his death, the man's skeleton still had a two-inch nail piercing its foot. By Sarah Cascone, Dec 8, 2021
Politics The Embattled National Museum of Afghanistan Has Reopened, With Taliban Security Negotiated by its Director "I was ready to give my life for it," says the museum's leader, Mohammad Fahim Rahimi. By Sarah Cascone, Dec 8, 2021
Archaeology In a Breakthrough, Italy Will Return a Piece of the Parthenon Frieze to Greece Under a Long-Term Loan Agreement Could this be a way for Greece to finally reunite the Parthenon? By Amah-Rose Abrams, Dec 1, 2021
Museums More Than 20 Years After an Ohio Museum Forced a Native Group to Buy Its Own Artifacts Back, It Has Repaid the Tribe The tribe rushed to buy back its own artifacts in 1996, and has now finally been reimbursed. By Caroline Goldstein, Nov 30, 2021
Analysis Demonstrating Resilience During the Pandemic, the Market for Chinese Art and Antiques Reaped $5.7 Billion Last Year, Our Report Found Sales remained solid in mainland China, but dropped in other regions across the globe. By Eileen Kinsella, Nov 22, 2021
Auctions Kenneth Griffin, Finance Titan and Retail-Investor Bogeyman, Beat Out the DAO to Buy the U.S. Constitution at Sotheby’s Goliath beats David. By Eileen Kinsella, Nov 19, 2021
Archaeology Archaeologists Just Discovered the World’s Oldest Jewelry: This Set of 150,000-Year-Old Snail-Shell Beads in Morocco Archaeologists found 33 snail shell beads in Morocco's Bizmoune Cave. By Sarah Cascone, Nov 19, 2021
Pop Culture Gal Gadot and Ryan Reynolds Will Face Off as Dueling Art Thieves in the New Heist Flick ‘Red Notice’—Watch the Trailer Here Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson also co-stars. By Sarah Cascone, Nov 2, 2021
Museums The Denver Art Museum Is Returning Four Antiquities to Cambodia After the Pandora Papers Exposed Their Illicit Origins The objects were once owned by the late indicted art dealer Douglas Latchford. By Sarah Cascone, Oct 18, 2021
Auctions These Sphinx Patio Ornaments Were Offered for $700 at an English Auction House. Turns Out They’re Ancient—and Sold for $265,000 A flood of bidders seems to have known something that the auctioneer did not. By Artnet News, Oct 14, 2021
Art World Mexico City Will Replace Its Christopher Columbus Statue With a Replica of a Pre-Hispanic Indigenous Female Figure The decision ends a long saga about what artwork should be displayed on the capital city’s Paseo de la Reforma. By Taylor Dafoe, Oct 13, 2021
Archaeology New Archaeological Find in Utah Suggests Humans Have Been Using Tobacco Since the Ice Age Prehistoric peoples may have chewed tobacco seeds around the campfire. By Sarah Cascone, Oct 12, 2021
Law The Pandora Papers Leak Reveals How the Late Dealer Douglas Latchford Used Offshore Accounts to Sell Looted Cambodian Antiquities More revelations are likely forthcoming as journalists comb through the leak. By Sarah Cascone, Oct 5, 2021
