National Geographic Explorer Peter Campbell provides an inside look at the early stages of a heritage crime investigation.

Serop Simonian was allowed to leave Paris and return to his hometown of Hamburg following a French magistrate’s decision that was subsequently overturned on appeal

A Johns Hopkins University archeologist and his team are credited with discovering “humanity’s earliest-known alphabetic writing.”

From the blog of Chris Rollston at The Times of Israel

A Danish museum has agreed to return the bronze head of a Roman Emperor to Turkey. The sculpture was among thousands of artifacts looted from Turkey and sold to American and European museums. (This story first aired on All Things Considered on Dec. 3, 2024.)

The Kensington Runestone, which was found in the Swedish settlements of Minnesota in 1898 by the immigrant Olof Ohman, is perhaps the world’s most famous and co

A shipwreck dating back to the 5th and 6th centuries B.C. was discovered earlier this year off the coast of Sicily, Italian officials said.

Through PONANT’s alliance with The Explorers Club, this voyage will feature maritime archaeologist Peter Campbell. Peter has led archaeological missions across multiple countries, exploring shipwrecks...

The bronze statue head of Roman Emperor Septimius Severus, looted in the 1960s, has been returned to Türkiye after nearly six decades. This marks a significant step in the countrys efforts to reclaim ...

The findings, which used DNA from the plaster casts of people who died in the Mt. Vesuvius eruption two millennia ago, challenge the traditional gender and familial assumptions about the Pompeiians.

Members of Diving With a Purpose search out and investigate the vessels’ remains, bringing history to light and memorializing lost lives

Early settlers ‘strategically’ built bridge to navigate island some 1,600 years earlier than the first confirmed human activity on Mallorca