Iraq regained twenty-two pieces antiquities of the ancient Sumerian Civilization which estimated for four thousand years old, this was during a handover ceremony of Iraqi antiquities from the German side Mrs. Eva Kona Minister of Culture and Science in German province Hessen who handed artifacts to the Iraqi Ambassador in Berlin, Mr. Ala’a...
Lagos — Prof. Folarin Shyllon, a lecturer at the University of Ibadan, in Abuja on Tuesday called for the amendment of the National Commission for Museums and Monuments (NCMM) Act of 1979, just as he noted that the illicit trafficking in artifacts undermined tourism potentials of the country.
With depressing regularity, Indian antiquities are stolen from archaeological sites and traded. The recent Interpol alert on the six most-wanted art objects lists yet another exquisite artefact missing from India. It is clear that existing measures to safeguard antiquities are incapable of doing the job. Illicit removal of cultural objects is...
A University of Alabama archaeologist Tuesday told the City Council natural forces created a stone mound that was the source of controversy in 2009, contradicting a report he signed last year, which claimed the mound was likely made by human hands about 1,000 years ago.
THREE years after St. Augustine was founded, Alvara de Mendana, nephew of the governor of Peru, set out with two ships and 150 soldiers and sailed west to find gold and a new trade route to China.
Mendana's 1568 voyage found nothing, so he returned to Peru. But a relentless lust for gold pushed the Spanish to dispatch more colonizing fleets...