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Arts Nov 10

Rare presidential artifacts command top dollars on the auction block

By Lorna Baldwin

Nation Jul 29

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Native American exhibits at major museums closed months ago, but tribes are still waiting to get artifacts back

Native American artifacts are still in the hands of some of the nation’s largest museums some six months after institutions closed and covered exhibits in response to new federal regulations.

By Philip Marcelo, Associated Press

World Feb 09

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U.S. museum returns artifacts to Ghana that were looted 150 years ago by British forces

Seven royal artifacts looted 150 years ago by British colonial forces from Ghana’s ancient Asante kingdom and kept by a United States museum have been returned and presented to the kingdom on Thursday, the latest of a series of stolen…

By Francis Kokutse, Associated Press

World Mar 17

Ancient artifacts stolen by UK returned to Cambodia
Cambodia celebrates return of ‘priceless’ stolen centuries-old artifacts

The celebration Friday was led by Prime Minister Hun Sen, who offered thanks for their return and appealed for further efforts to retrieve such stolen treasures.

By Sopheng Cheang, Associated Press

Science Feb 09

An undated handout photograph shows the Nyayanga site on the Homa Peninsula of Lake Victoria in southwestern Kenya, where hundreds of stone tools dating to roughly 2.9 million years ago made by early human ancestors were found, also known as the Oldowan toolkit, were used to butcher hippos and pound plant material, according to new research led by an international team of scientists. Photo by J.S. Oliver, Homa Peninsula Paleoanthropology Project/Handout via REUTERS
Stone Age discovery in Kenya fuels mystery of who made the earliest tools

In the past, scientists assumed that our direct ancestors were the only toolmakers. But two big fossil teeth found along with the tools at the Kenyan site belong to an extinct human cousin known as Paranthropus.

By Maddie Burakoff, Associated Press

Sep 17

Rare U.S. Constitution copy up for auction

By Mark Kennedy, Associated Press

A very special birth certificate will be auctioned off later this year.

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Sep 30

‘It belongs to us!’: French trial over colonial art grows tense

By Angela Charlton, Associated Press

Emery Mwazulu Diyabanza in part was inspired by global protests against racial injustice and colonial-era wrongs unleashed by George Floyd's death in the U.S. at the knee of a white policeman.

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Apr 16

Which Notre Dame treasures survived the fire?

By Courtney Vinopal

Though grievous damage has forever altered the 856-year-old cathedral, officials say the precious relics housed inside were spared.

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Aug 09

British Museum to return looted antiquities to Iraq

By Associated Press

The returned antiquities were seized by British police in 2003 from a now-defunct London art dealer.

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Mar 02

Iraq reopens museum in defiance of jihadist threat

By Larisa Epatko

The Iraqi National Museum, ransacked after the U.S.-led invasion in 2003, has reopened 12 years later displaying ancient winged creatures, tablets and sculptures in stone.

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