archaeology

    By Jonathan Berr

    | 9:31PM 2/04/2011
    The frightening battles in Egypt have Americans peppering museums with questions about what's going on there. At the same time, antiquities authorities in Egypt are warning museums and auction houses to be on the alert for people trying to sell looted items.

    By Jonathan Berr

    | 7:00PM 6/04/2009
    Odyssey Marine Exploration Inc. (OMEX), which shrouds its for-profit underwater archaeological digs in secrecy, suffered a very public setback today after a federal magistrate ruled that contents from a ship wreck codenamed "Black Swan," whose 2007 discovery was greeted by an avalanche of...