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The $1.2m Ancient Greek masterpiece that became a scandal for the Met: The dark journey of the Euphronios Krater
The Euphronios Krater, one of the most important surviving works of ancient Greek pottery, was illegally excavated by a tomb raider in Italy and smuggled into the US — The BBC’s 1975 investigation into the huge trade in stolen antiquities
“It was the most important moment in my 30 years at sea”: He went diving for fish and discovered the 2,400-year-old shipwreck off Andros (photos)
The spearfisherman and professional diving instructor discovered the shipwreck in 2018 and reported it to the Ephorate of Underwater Antiquities in 2021. In 2025, he returned to the site with archaeologists and showed them its exact location
Taxisnet in the age of Pericles: Tax evasion, a very ancient affair
The state’s battle with the “monster” of tax evasion didn’t begin today — citizens have long found inventive ways to hide income and avoid taxes
A headless marble statue of the goddess Athena was discovered in Turkey (video-photos)
The statue of Athena was found among piles of rubble, facing downward, at the outer wall of the stage building of the Western Theater in the ancient city of Laodicea (modern-day Denizli)
The stomach of an Egyptian mummy concealed a copy of the Iliad – Archaeologists were stunned (photos)
The mummy had been buried during the Roman period in Oxyrhynchus about 1,600 years ago. It is the first time a Greek literary text has been found embedded in a mummy’s body as part of the embalming process
The lost Alexandria on the Tigris founded by Alexander the Great discovered in Iraq: Its enormous size surprised archaeologists (photos)
The ancient city was founded in the 4th century BC as a port linking trade from India with Mesopotamia and the Mediterranean world, and it fell into obscurity after the 3rd century AD
The Belharra “Kimon” sails into Cyprus, where the general who gave it his name was killed fighting the Persians – His story
Kimon, son of the general Miltiades, who led the Athenians at the Battle of Marathon, was the fear and terror of the Persians – How he reached Cyprus, and how the phrase “even in death he was victorious” came about
