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Manhattan District Attorney’s Office returns eight artefacts to Peru, including golden Moche mask
The Manhattan District Attorney’s office is returning eight trafficked artefacts to Peruvian authorities. A majority of the objects in question…
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Smithsonian’s National Museum of Asian Art repatriates ancient silk manuscript to China
The Smithsonian’s National Museum of Asian Art (NMAA) in Washington, DC, has deaccessioned from its collection fragments of contested ancient…
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Family of Prussian kings settles century-old dispute with Germany over royal treasures
The German government and the states of Berlin and Brandenburg have settled a 100-year-old dispute with descendants of the Hohenzollerns,…
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Smithsonian’s National Museum of Asian Art and Saudi Arabia strike deal to collaborate on exhibitions, conservation and more
The Smithsonian’s National Museum of Asian Art (NMAA) has joined forces with the Royal Commission for AlUla (RCU) to create…
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Magna Carta ‘copy’ once sold at Sotheby’s is an original, say UK professors
Two UK medieval history professors say that a manuscript once considered to be an unofficial copy of the Magna Carta—bought…
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Metropolitan Museum receives 6,500 works from photography collector Artur Walther
The Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York has received a promised gift of more than 6,5000 works from one…
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Over 160 Tutankhamun treasures have arrived at the Grand Egyptian Museum
A trove of more than 160 treasures from the tomb of King Tutankhamun has been transferred from the Egyptian Museum…
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How the Argentine president’s war on history is threatening art spaces
In an ongoing attempt to erase victims’ stories of Argentina’s dictatorship under Jorge Rafael Videla, President Javier Milei has started…
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Mexican authorities decry ‘distorted information’ in MrBeast video filmed at ancient Mayan sites
On 10 May, James Donaldson, better known as the internet media personality MrBeast, posted a video titled “I Survived 100…
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Behind the scenes of the Met’s revamped Rockefeller Wing with its acclaimed architect
Kulapat Yantrasast is really going places. Though he calls California home, the Bangkok-born architect has won commissions from so many…
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