Crime A Renowned Archaeologist Is Calling on Sotheby’s to Withdraw Potentially Looted Antiquities From Its Auction Christos Tsirogiannis, an expert at identifying illicit antiquities, is once again sounding the alarm. By Sarah Cascone, Dec 6, 2022
Museums & Institutions The Brooklyn Museum Is Expanding the Story of Art History With 200 Acquisitions Spanning Indigenous Textiles and Brand New Photography The highlights include a cache of watercolors by Emily Sargent, John Singer Sargent's overlooked sister. By Sarah Cascone, Nov 21, 2022
Archaeology & History Egyptian Archaeologists Rewrite History With the Discovery of a Tomb of a Previously Unknown Queen The New Kingdom Tomb of Queen Neith, along with a cache of 300 coffins and 100 mummies, was unearthed at the ancient necropolis of Saqqara. By Sarah Cascone, Nov 17, 2022
Crime Two American Expats, Whose Guatemala Home Turned Up More Than 1,200 Pre-Hispanic Artifacts, Face Charges of Smuggling A raid of the couple's home uncovered archaeological objects, and significant works in jade and basalt. By Sarah Cascone, Nov 17, 2022
On View An Astonishing Exhibition Shows How Ancient Mesopotamians Not Only Worshiped, But Respected, Women The star of the show is Sumerian priestess Enheduanna, who was the first recorded author in the world. By Sarah Cascone, Nov 11, 2022
Archaeology & History Scholars Have Decoded the World’s Oldest Sentence Written With an Alphabet. It’s a Highly Specific Warning… About Lice The sentence was inscribed on an ancient ivory comb found at the Tel Lachish archaeological site in 2016. By Sarah Cascone, Nov 10, 2022
Auctions One of the Most Complete T. Rex Skulls Ever Found May Fetch $20 Million at a Single-Lot Sale at Sotheby’s We could have another blockbuster fossil auction on our hands. By Sarah Cascone, Nov 8, 2022
Archaeology & History An Ancient Tunnel Discovered Beneath an Egyptian Temple May Lead to Cleopatra’s Tomb, Archaeologists Say For nearly 20 years, archaeologists have been searching the area around the temple Tapuziris Magna for the final resting place of the Egyptian queen and her husband Mark Antony. By Sarah Cascone, Nov 7, 2022
Art Collectors What I Buy and Why: Design Collector and Fair Director Jill Bokor on the Danger of Buying a Chair That You Can’t Actually Sit in Bokor, who now oversees the prestigious fair Salon Art + Design, has worn many art-world hats. By Eileen Kinsella, Nov 7, 2022
Crime Disgraced Antiques Dealer Subhash Kapoor Was Handed a 10-Year Jail Sentence by an Indian Court for Dealing in Stolen Objects U.S. authorities are also investigating Kapoor and have returned hundreds of objects worth millions to India. By Eileen Kinsella, Nov 2, 2022
Pop Culture How Accurate Is the New ‘Assassin’s Creed’ Video Game’s Picture of 9th-Century Baghdad? Not Very, Archaeologists Say A video game expert and archaeologist worries the lack of published research on the Islamic Golden Age available to developers will limit the historical faithfulness of "Mirage". By Sarah Cascone, Oct 19, 2022
Archaeology & History Santa Claus Walked These Floors: Stunning Mosaics Have Been Uncovered at the Tomb of St. Nicholas Experts also believe they know where the saint's tomb would have originally stood within the church. By Sarah Cascone, Oct 19, 2022
Archaeology & History Archaeologists at Pompeii Say the iPad Pro—Which Comes With a LiDAR Scanner—Is Changing the Way They Work Archaeologists from Tulane University developed a new digital workflow, enabled by the iPad Pro, to conduct excavations at Pompeii. By Sarah Cascone, Oct 12, 2022
Archaeology & History A Hoard of Gold Coins Found Hidden in a Wall in the Golan Heights Sheds New Light on the Muslim Conquests of the Levant The 44 gold coins were likely hidden in haste as Muslims took control of an area that was a Christian settlement at the time. By Dorian Batycka, Oct 6, 2022
Crime As Russians ‘Pillage’ Ukraine’s Museums in Annexed Territories, Artifacts Are Turning Up in Moscow and on the Black Market The illegally annexed territories are home to many major museums. By Eileen Kinsella, Oct 3, 2022
