Artifacts and human remains taken by a Norwegian explorer and anthropologist in the 1940s are being returned to Chile's remote territory of Easter Island ~humanities.history Article 518 words 8 votes
National Museum of Denmark is handing over an iconic cloak belonging to an indigenous group in Brazil at a ceremony being attended by President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva ~humanities.history Article 338 words 14 votes
Archaeology student unearths seven spectacular Viking-era curled silver arm rings north of Denmark's second-largest city Aarhus ~humanities.history Article 312 words 9 votes
An American bought a $4 vase. Turns out, it's a lost ancient Maya treasure. ~humanities.history Article 485 words 26 votes
A new exhibition opening at Denmark's National Museum is exploring the history and legacy of a mysterious female Viking sorceress known as the Völva ~humanities.history Article 644 words 15 votes
Blacksmiths are reconstructing a Viking ship to better understand the secrets of the navigation of Scandinavian warriors a thousand years ago ~humanities.history Article 552 words 16 votes
Vast coin collection of Danish butter magnate L.E. Bruun is set to finally go on sale a century after his death, and could fetch up to $72 million ~humanities.history Article 1391 words 11 votes
The Sámi museum Siida in Finland was awarded the top prize at this year's European Museum of the Year Awards ~humanities.history Article 467 words 9 votes
The Museum of Science and Industry abruptly closed for a day last week to allow it to move “military artifacts from archival storage” ~humanities.history Article 794 words, published Apr 9 2024 26 votes
Bellevue, WA police responded to a call from a US Air Force museum that said a man had offered to donate a Cold War-era missile stored in his late neighbor’s garage ~humanities.history Article 570 words 12 votes
Sweden's most popular tourist attraction, a 17th-century vessel that foundered minutes after launch, needs another financial rescue ~humanities.history Article 660 words 11 votes
A replica of a boat that carried Danish Jews to safety in Sweden anchors an exhibit at the Museum of Jewish Heritage in NYC ~humanities.history Article 1424 words 12 votes
Israeli proposal to move early Christian mosaic to US Museum of the Bible sparks controversy ~humanities.history Article 1260 words 17 votes
Top-secret atomic bunker has opened to the public in Denmark – built to withstand a nuclear attack, it's now an astonishing subterranean museum ~humanities.history Article 1431 words 6 votes
Hoard of 1,000-year-old Viking coins unearthed in Denmark – artefacts believed to date back to 980s found by girl metal-detecting in cornfield last autumn ~humanities.history Article 378 words 12 votes
Intact ancient papyrus scroll uncovered in Saqqara, the first in a century ~humanities.history Link 5 votes
Three centuries on, a shaman's precious rune drum returns home – instrument confiscated by the Danes is given back to the Sámi ~humanities.history Article 997 words 4 votes
Two Vikings from the same family are to be 'reunited' – DNA evidence has linked the skeleton from Oxford with another skeleton excavated in Denmark ~humanities.history Article 7 votes
An Oxford professor, an evangelical collector, and a missing gospel of Mark: A scholar claimed that he discovered a first-century gospel fragment, now faces allegations of theft, cover-up, and fraud ~humanities.history Article 8361 words 11 votes
Confronting the colonial legacies of museum collections ~humanities.history Article 2314 words 8 votes
The fragments of the Dead Sea Scrolls at the Museum of the Bible are all forgeries ~humanities.history Article 2892 words 11 votes
Smithsonian Open Access - 2.8 million images and 3D models from the Institution's collections released into the public domain ~humanities.history Article 1740 words 14 votes
A scandal in Oxford: The curious case of the stolen gospel ~humanities.history Article 6194 words 7 votes
Researchers used skeletal remains and ancient DNA to reconstruct the burial of a woman who lived in what is now southern Sweden 7,000 years ago ~humanities.history Article 891 words, published Nov 11 2019 4 votes
Sixty years since rising from the deep – Swedish warship Vasa's preservation still a major challenge ~humanities.history Link 4 votes
Forgotten History: Musée des Plans-Reliefs ~humanities.history Video 7:32, published Jul 18 2019 8 votes
Independence National Park is an embarrassing mess. Why doesn’t anyone care? ~humanities.history Article 4916 words, published Jun 30 2019 6 votes
No Spanish allowed: Texas school museum revisits history of segregation ~humanities.history Article 1054 words 8 votes
The imitation game: Some of the most beloved objects in Washington museums are not as authentic as visitors might assume ~humanities.history Article 3313 words, published Feb 27 2019 3 votes
The Metropolitan Museum will return prized gilded coffin after learning it was stolen archaeology Article 600 words 5 votes
Hey, that's our stuff: Masaai tribespeople tackle Oxford's Pitt Rivers museum anthropology Article 1616 words 14 votes
Return of African artifacts sets a tricky precedent for Europe’s museums ~humanities.history Article 1317 words 5 votes
Looted Iraqi antiquities return home after UK experts crack cold case archaeology Article 867 words 3 votes