The 52-year-old Brooklyn resident allegedly falsified provenance documents to conceal the artifacts' illicit origins.

Ashraf Omar Eldarir was sentenced to six months in prison for smuggling antiquities. The case comes amid upheaval in the art ...

Excavations at Tell el-Fara’in in Egypt revealed an ancient city from the final years of the Egyptian empire, which once thrived here, dating back to the 4 th century BCE. Using state-of-the-art ...

This is not a case of Jean Valjean stealing a loaf of bread. This is a case of the defendant repeatedly trafficking in antiquities,” Assistant U.S. Attorney William Campos told ...

Ancient Egyptian rulers sent explorers and traders to the far-off kingdom of Punt. But today, it's a lost land, location ...

A tomb raider has been sentenced to prison after trying to flee Egypt with a bag full of stolen ancient treasures. Ashraf Omar Eldarir has been slapped with a six-month federal prison sentence after ...

A Brooklyn man who trafficked hundreds of stolen Egyptian antiquities through JFK Airport will spend months behind ...

Artefacts from the ancient, submerged city of Canopus off the coast of Alexandria have surfaced for the first time in 25 ...

Tomb raiding’ smuggler jailed for looting ancient artefacts from Egypt - Ashraf Omar Eldarir smuggled hundreds of artefacts ...

My father always told me: in Sohag, the moment you open the door, nature greets you,’’ says Gehad Abdalla, an Egyptian artist ...

Archaeologists in Egypt have discovered broken statues of ancient royalty at a sun temple in Heliopolis, an archaeological site that was once a major city near what is now Cairo. The stone-carved ...

In many developed countries, the price of property has risen so high it's meant the dream of home ownership has faded for ...