A member of an online antiquities forum recently posted images of a bust that had just appeared on the market (see Update below). It seeme...

Dave Welsh, an American dealer in ancient coins, has expressed his hope that the recent US election will lead to a relaxing of measures d...

The Senate Foreign Relations Committee in the United States has passed a bill ( HR 1493 ) that is designed to "protect and preserve i...

After seizing antiquities in a raid at Deir ez-Zor in Syria, it seems the US Government handed over ALL the items to Iraq in a well-publi...

I made a statement in the comments on a recent article in the Biblical Archaeology Review : " That collecting provides most of the mo...

The president of the Society for American Archaeology, Jeff Altschul, voices his frustration at the damage done by metal detectorists and ...