August 11, 2025 3:15 PM

Scientists find possible artefacts of oldest known Wallacean hominids in Indonesia

Scientists have found a series of stone tools on Indonesia’s Sulawesi island they say may be evidence of humans living 1.5 million years ago on islands between Asia and Australia, the earliest known humans in the Wallacea region. Archaeologists from Australia and Indonesia found the small, chipped tools, used to cut little animals and carve rocks, under the soil in the region of Soppeng in South Sulawesi. Radioactive tracing of these tools and the teeth of animals found around the site were d...

November 16, 2024 3:42 PM

1,440 smuggled antiquities seized by US authorities returned to India

Manhattan prosecutor Alvin Bragg has returned to India 1,440 antiquities, including sacred temple sculptures that had been smuggled to the US. The artefacts were returned at a ceremony held at India’s Consulate General, represented by Consul Manish Kulhary. Alexandra de Armas, the Homeland Security Investigation (HSI) Group Supervisor, handed them over, the prosecutor’s office said on Thursday. “We will continue to investigate the many trafficking networks that have targeted Indian cultu...