US hands back artefacts to Peru
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The US hands over more than 400 Incan and pre-Columbian artefacts to the government of Peru.
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The U.S. is giving civic and economic projects in Jordan, Algeria, Morocco, Tunisia and Egypt, and on the West Bank &#36;18.5 million in contributions, the State Department announced Friday.
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NASA plans to take four coins and a 400-year-old artifact into space to honor early U.S. explorers.
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The Italian Culture Ministry and the J. Paul Getty Museum of Los Angeles signed an agreement under which the museum will hand over 40 archaeological artifacts that Italy says were looted from its soil.
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A look at some insurgent-linked material recovered by the U.S. military in Iraq:
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The Italian Culture Ministry and the Princeton University Art Museum signed a deal Tuesday for the return of eight disputed antiquities to Italy Â Rome's latest coup in its efforts to recover treasures it says were looted from the country.
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ANDAHUAYLAS, Peru -- A four-day occupation of a police station and part of a Peruvian town by an armed group of ex-military nationalists demanding the president's resignation ended yesterday when they surrendered and freed their hostages.
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Gold and other 17th century artifacts treasure salvagers say they recovered from a shipwrecked Spanish galleon off Key West were brought ashore Thursday. Some estimate the findings could be worth more than $1 million.
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The 500-year-old skull, found in a long-forgotten Inca cemetery outside Lima, Peru, had two round holes just across from each other. Nearby was a plug of bone, recovered intact, that carried the distinct markings of an old musket ball.
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Archaeologists in Peru uncover the mummified remains of dogs buried with blankets alongside their human masters.
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What happens to those scissors, lighters and the occasional machete confiscated at US airports? Some land in an Ali Baba-style cave here, to be auctioned on eBay.
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The US has provided airlifts and pledged $300 million to support African troops in west Sudan. By Abraham McLaughlin - staff writer and Duncan Woodside - contributor.
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LIMA, Peru  - While workers at Peru's huge Camisea  energy project were busy laying the high-tech gas pipeline from  the southern jungle to Lima earlier this year, archeologists in  the area were marveling at something a little less  state-of-the-art: ceramics.
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The US announces a big boost to funds to aid survivors of tsunamis that claimed more than 124,000 lives.
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Three 4,000-year-old marble and  alabaster seals looted from the Iraq National Museum and seized  by U.S. Customs from an American scholar were returned on  Tuesday to Iraq's U.N. ambassador.
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LIMA, Peru, Dec. 12 -- The United States on Wednesday said it had evidence that Venezuelan President Hugo ChÃÂ¡vez's government tried to secretly funnel hundreds of thousands of dollars to the campaign of Argentina's new president.
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PISCO, Peru -- Carmen Angulo tells visitors to step carefully when entering her home. Pots and pans lie to the right, clothes to the left, and her three children, her parents and a few nieces and nephews nap on mattresses tossed on the floor.