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Stolen-artifacts case has cost much, yielded little, critics say

2013-05-18 22:09:00

When hundreds of federal agents raided four Southern California museums early one January morning in 2008, it set the art world ablaze, suggesting that even amid an international looting scandal, museums had continued to do business with the black...

Metropolitan Museum says it will return Cambodian statues

2013-05-03 14:30:00

The Metropolitan Museum of Art has agreed to return two ancient statues to Cambodia after receiving convincing evidence they had been looted and smuggled out of the country illegally. The 10th century Khmer statues, known as the Kneeling Attendants,...

Letters: Hawaii issue sets memories afloat

2013-05-05 00:00:00

Mahalo nui loa ("thank you very much") for the Special Hawaii Issue [April 21]. Fabulous memories of several visits to the islands in paradise were made vivid by the stories, pictures and maps of Oahu, Molokai and the cruise with stops at the Big Island,...

Mexico: AeroMexico to fly new route from LAX to La Paz

2013-04-30 07:30:00

It will be easier to get from Los Angeles to La Paz, Mexico, after June 20, when AeroMexico launches a new route. The twice-weekly flights will allow passengers to leave LAX at 2:20 p.m. Thursdays and return about noon on Sundays. Or fly south to La Paz...

Chinese poaching of rare mammal exposed by boating accident

2013-04-16 07:22:00

A boating accident off the Philippines coast has exposed Chinese poaching of a protected species of scaly anteater, or pangolin, prized in traditional medicine. A 500-ton Chinese fishing vessel, the Min Long Yu, crashed into a coral reef April 8. When...

Hopi masks auctioned in Paris amid outrage and legal objections

2013-04-12 13:53:00

This post has been corrected. See below for details. The gavel came down on 70 sacred Hopi Indian masks at the Drouot auction house in Paris on Friday, generating $1.2 million for the owners and auctioneers – and anger and emotional cries from...

He's got Armenia under his skin, and we get a guidebook

2013-04-17 08:30:00

By some measures, Matthew Karanian was a Connecticut Yankee: a 34-year-old litigator in Hartford, American-born and bred. But he had a wild idea. So he took a summer off, headed for the rustic land of his ancestors, and soon found that Armenia was...

Uruguay: Coastal reveries, away from it all

2013-04-07 00:00:00

COLONIA DEL SACRAMENTO, Uruguay — Straddling the crest of a sand dune, my back to the Atlantic Ocean, I watched a Uruguayan boy net fish in a river lagoon. He waded through the chest-high water, dragging behind him the reflection of the setting sun....

Mexico trying to stop antiquities sale at Sotheby's in Paris

2013-03-22 09:00:00

Another antiquities auction has turned into another international art dispute. This time it’s the sale, scheduled for Friday and Saturday at Sotheby’s in Paris, of the Barbier-Mueller Collection of Pre-Columbian art from Mexico and Central...

Hong Kong Film Festival: A film that deals with memory (and Macau)

2013-03-20 07:30:00

HONG KONG -- There is a moment in “The Last Time I Saw Macau” -- which plays Wednesday at the Hong Kong International Film Festival and is being distributed in the United States this summer by Cinema Guild -- in which the camera captures the...

Your Scene: Cave dwelling in India

2013-03-02 06:30:00

Dana Baldwin visited the Ajanta Caves, about 200 miles northeast of Mumbai, during a trip to India in November. The caves, a UNESCO World Heritage Site, were carved out of a cliff about 2,000 year ago and house early Buddhist artworks, some of which are...

Romance goes with the flow: Tubs with a view

2013-02-10 00:00:00

There's nothing lovelier than getting into a bath and staying there as long as you like. And when that tub has a soul-soaring view, well, heaven. Here are some of the world's finest tubs with a tableau worthy of an amorous splurge. Post Ranch Inn, Big...

Persepolis in southern Iran is the greatest ancient site between the Holy Land and India. Persepolis became a in 1979.

2013-04-10 11:08:13

The pyramids are part of a designated in 1979.

2013-04-10 11:08:55

Tourists walking on the Stradun, the main street in between ancient monuments and restored buildings of the old city of Dubrovnik, a UNESCO World Heritage Site since 1979, on the Dalmatian coast of the Adriatic Sea on May 13, 2011 in Dubrovnik, Croatia.

2013-04-10 11:06:59