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

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

A press release by the U.S. Attorney's office identified the man as Ashraf Omar Eldarir. He was sentenced to six months in ...

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 ...

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

Remnants of a 2,000-year-old sunken city, Canopus, were lifted from waters off Alexandria, Egypt, revealing the city might ...

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

Egyptian archaeologists pulled 2,000-year-old statues and relics from the Mediterranean Sea Thursday, according to the Greek ...

Among the items recovered by law enforcement officers were gold amulets from a funerary set and wooden tomb model figures with linen garments dating to approximately 1900 BCE.

Several large sculptures were among the trove of artifacts that divers recovered from the waters near Alexandria, Egypt.

Ancient statues, Roman coins and other artifacts from a sunken city were pulled from the Mediterranean Sea off the coast of ...

Between 2020 and 2021, the US government seized 13 ancient Egyptian artifacts at JFK airport, including a 5,200-year-old vase, according to a legal documents filed earlier this month.