Archivist accused of stealing artifacts
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A state archivist was charged with stealing hundreds of artifacts Â documents representing "the heritage of all Americans," according to the history buff who found some of them on eBay Â to pay his household bills.
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Boston's Museum of Fine Arts, one of   several top U.S. museums accused of having looted antiquities   from Italy, on Thursday became the first to hand over suspect   artifacts to Rome.
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Thieves have stolen 15 rare items of medieval Chinese jewelry from the British Museum, including historically important gold earrings, amulets and hair pins, a museum spokeswoman said on Monday.
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Acting on a tip from a German archaeologist, Swiss police arrest a man who was attempting to sell a 4,000-year-old tablet believed to have been stolen from Iraq.
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A Southern California man who sold  the skull of a Hawaiian woman from the 18th century to  undercover agents on eBay was charged on Wednesday with a  federal crime.
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JERUSALEM -- Four Israeli antiquities collectors and dealers were indicted yesterday on charges that they ran a sophisticated forgery ring that spanned the globe and produced a treasure trove of fake Bible-era artifacts, including some that were hailed as major archeological finds.
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American museums are returning some of the world's great antiquities to their original homes. Should they? A new debate over who owns the past is underway.
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5. 1953 - Stanford students stole the Axe from a display case (leaving $5 for the broken glass), but returned it allegedly because they were led to believe it was a fake when Cal students brandished a good copy.
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Thieves broke into a museum and stole around a dozen glass artworks made by a French master craftsman, worth &#36;3.3 million, police said Wednesday.
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JERUSALEM The Israeli police have filed criminal indictments against four antiquities collectors, accusing them of forging biblical artifacts, many so skillfully that they fooled experts.
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A portable hard drive that may contain the personal information of up to 48,000 veterans may have been stolen, the Department of Veterans Affairs and a lawmaker said Friday.
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The Israeli police filed criminal indictments on Wednesday against four antiquities collectors, accusing them of forging biblical artifacts, many so skillfully that they fooled experts.
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More than 22,000 ancient cultural  treasures from Afghanistan, feared lost or destroyed after  decades of war and Taliban rule, have been taken out of dusty  crates and safes in Kabul and inventoried for safekeeping, said  a U.S. archeologist on Wednesday.
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A man who purported to offer rare sports cards including that of baseball legend Mickey Mantle has been charged with defrauding eBay (EBAY.
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A New York state employee who had access to government-owned archives has been arrested on suspicion of stealing hundreds of historic documents, many of which he sold on eBay, authorities said on Monday.
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Hawking items on eBay can open you to a world of people curious about your stuff, including, according to St. Mary's County court records filed this week, the guy from whom you stole your stuff.
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An exhibition at the Museum of the City of New York will feature political paraphernalia, much of it from the collection of a New York lawyer who has amassed over one million pieces of ephemera.