Ancient Art & Antiques
On the first day of the Egyptian uprisings in late January of 2011, a team of Swiss and Egyptian archaeologists discovered a new tomb in the Valley of the Kings, only the second tomb found in the area since Tutankhamun's in 1922. They quickly covered the...
A team of Swiss archaeologists working in Egypt made a fortuitous discovery last year when they stumbled upon the tomb of a female singer in the Valley of the Kings. According to an inscription on the roughly 3,000 year-old artifact, its contents belonged...
Robert F. Doares Jr. and Barbara Myers Wood have no doctorates or institutional backing, just time on their hands for freelance ceramics scholarship. A married couple, they have shown up unannounced at the offices of venerable....
It sure is a good thing that the Mayan calendar says the world is going to end this year — because at least, after the apocalypse comes on Dec. 21, you won't have to read another word about it. Or maybe you will. The beginning of 2012 has....[content:...
In Vaishali, the holy land of the Buddha in Bihar, life pauses for a while as one is immersed into spirituality and calmness.In this ancient city, formerly the prosperous capital of the Lichhavis, the Buddha preached his last sermon in 483 BC.In 1958,...
A New York store was told by a city politician Wednesday to stop selling swastika earrings, although the shop manager said they were an ancient Indian symbol, not the Nazi emblem. Scott Stringer, the Manhattan borough president in New York, said on his...
One of Russia’s leading museums could be out on the street – if no settlement is found in its conflict with the Russian Orthodox Church. Perm State Art Gallery has occupied the city’s Holy Transfiguration Cathedral for 90 years. But now Perm diocese...
The recovery of a mysterious wooden pole at the bottom of Lake Huron is fuelling excitement among U.S. and Canadian researchers that they have found more evidence of a "lost world" of North American caribou hunters from nearly 10,000 years ago. The...[content...
The country of Turkey now occupies the territory of ancient Asia Minor. It is filled with Greek and Roman ruins — especially in the western area and along the Mediterranean coast. Archaeological excavations are active in the country. Today’s Zaman, a...[...
An ornate brass lectern stolen from a church in Wiltshire has been found at an antiques fair in Romania. The discovery suggests Eastern European gangs are plundering our churches and smuggling treasures abroad to sell cheaply. The 4ft eagle lectern, worth...[...
