Ashraf Omar Eldarir was sentenced to six months in prison for smuggling antiquities. The case comes amid upheaval in the art world over tomb raiders.

Recent discoveries have sparked a wave of excitement and intrigue among scientists and the public alike, as evidence suggests ...

A tomb raider has been sentenced to prison after trying to flee Egypt with a bag full of stolen ancient treasures. Ashraf Omar Eldarir has been slapped with a six-month federal prison sentence after ...

Ancient 2,000-year-old artifacts were recovered from the Mediterranean Sea near Alexandria, Egypt, possibly from the sunken ...

This is not a case of Jean Valjean stealing a loaf of bread. This is a case of the defendant repeatedly trafficking in antiquities,” Assistant U.S. Attorney William Campos told ...

A Brooklyn man who trafficked hundreds of stolen Egyptian antiquities through JFK Airport will spend months behind ...

A Celtic settlement unearthed in the Czech Republic yielded over 22,000 bags of artifacts including gold coins, jewelry and ...

Photo from Portable Antiquities Scheme / Newcastle University Archaeologists in Norway surveyed an area exposed by melting ice and found fragments of an “extraordinary” Viking cargo net, photos show.

As part of a major archaeological operation, Egyptian officials uncovered underwater remnants from a 2,000-year-old “party town” known as Canopus. Archaeologists believe that the city may be larger ...

Remnants of a 2,000-year-old sunken city, Canopus, were lifted from waters off Alexandria, Egypt, revealing the city might have been larger than thought.

Ancient artifacts can tell the story of humanity and how we evolved technologically, spiritually, and emotionally. However, sometimes archaeologists find ...

The Temple Mount Sifting Project recently uncovered a well-preserved biblical-era clay sealing with ancient Hebrew letters ...