The cache of exceptionally intact artefacts,including hilts and scabbards,tells a story of empire and rebellion,of long-distance conquest and insurrection.
The wall was first spotted by farmers during harvesting work in the Viru Valley,some 480 kilometres north of the capital Lima.
Hartwig Fischer has stepped down after admitting the 270-year-old institution was facing a situation of the “utmost seriousness”.
Ittai Gradel,the Danish art dealer who raised the alarm,said the museum’s deputy director had “basically told me to get lost”.
A mystery person used a COVID lockdown to uncover a slow drip of theft from the museum’s antiquities collection.
The imperial theatre,referred to in ancient Roman texts but never found,has been discovered under the garden of a future Four Seasons Hotel,steps from the Vatican.
A soundtrack with extra percussion.
Aspiring to the hot seat.
Sydney maritime archaeology expert Emily Jateff descended to the Titanic in a submersible in 2005. Things didn’t go to plan.
The depression is 15 metres below the surface but,thousands of years ago,it was a spring in the midst of a dry valley and humans were drawn to its banks.
The workshop,which dates from the 30th Dynasty and the early Ptolemaic era (4th century BC),was found near the oldest stone pyramid,Djoser’s Step.