In a social media post, the Greek culture ministry praised the "sensitivity and courage" of the woman who returned the ...

Apparently, she took the artifact in the 1960s from the Leonidaion, a 4th-century BC guesthouse in Olympia that once ...

A German woman who stole the top of an ancient Greek column more than half a century ago has returned it to Greece — ending a ...

Investigators looking into the theft of hundreds of ancient gold coins from a German museum have found lumps of gold that appear to have resulted from part of the treasure being melted down, but still ...

This 2007 photo provided by researchers shows the end of a wooden hunting spear estimated to be about 200,000 years old discovered in a coal mine in the German town of Schöningen. (C. S.

For many decades, textbooks taught that hippos vanished from the center of Europe upon the onset of the Ice Age. However, a ...

Researchers have identified a new ichthyosaur species from the Jurassic era. A team of researchers from Switzerland and Germany, led by Gaël Spicher of the JURASSICA Museum in Porrentruy (Switzerland) ...

A centuries-old Roman marble bust believed to depict an enemy of Julius Caesar, which may have been looted by an American soldier stationed in Germany after World War II, went on display at the San ...