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AP Photo/Leo Correa A massive fire ripped through Brazil’s 200-year-old National Museum in Rio de Janeiro. The museum houses more than 20 million items, ranging from archeological finds to historical memorabilia. There was no word of the possible cause late on Sunday, nor if there were casualties or the exact extent of damage. RIO DE JANEIRO […]
Enlarge / Getting one’s Artifact on. (credit: Valve Software) Editor’s note: This feature’s two videos include transcripts, and many of their details appear in the article’s text and galleries. So however you want to learn about Valve’s latest video game, Ars has your back. BELLEVUE, Washington—Right as this article goes live, Valve Software is taking […]
Artifact had a rough reveal at The International 2017, Valve’s largest annual tournament for its MOBA (multiplayer online battle arena) Dota 2. Fans in attendance saw its debut via a video. You can hear their excitement build as they understand Valve is about to unveil its first new game since Dota 2 came out in […]
Enlarge / Two posters, one ambitious game. (credit: Valve) BELLEVUE, Washington—I was about to sit down to play Valve’s first new PC game series in five years. But this being Valve, the world’s first press demo for Artifact was preceded by something almost equally rare: a speech from company cofounder Gabe Newell. The speech wasn’t just […]
Climate change has allowed archaeologists to find more than 2,000 ancient artifacts under perennial ice in Norway’s Oppland Mountains. However, the melting process actually poses a threat to the delicate discoveries. Home to peaks such as the 2,439 meter Galdhoppigen, the region in central Norway also holds secrets of ancient civilisations dating back to the […]
Perhaps the best item that any pop culture fan can get is a prop from their favorite movie and TV show. The only problem is that they can be rather expensive. But if there’s any show that can convince you to “treat yo self,” it’s the beloved NBC sitcom Parks and Recreation, and you’ll have […]
Published time: 14 Oct, 2017 22:11 A museum in Norway has appealed for help from its counterparts in Ireland after 400 Viking artifacts were stolen from its premises. The collection, some of which was originally taken from Ireland by marauding Vikings more than a millennium ago, was stolen from the University Museum of Bergen on […]
United States Attorney for the Eastern District of New York Hobby Lobby, the US crafts supply company known for its pro-Christian branding, apparently has a side interest in smuggling rare archaeological artifacts. The company made headlines when it won a Supreme Court case in which it argued that the family-owned company should not have to […]
Arts and crafts chain, Hobby Lobby, will return 5,500 ancient Iraqi religious artifacts which were smuggled into the US through Israel and the United Arab Emirates as a result of a civil complaint from the US Justice Department. Hobby Lobby announced on Wednesday that it has agreed to return the artifacts and pay a $ […]
