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A Prominent Museum Obtained Items From a Massacre of Native Americans in 1895. The Survivors’ Descendants Want Them Back.

by ProPublica in Dig It Oct 21, 2023 — 12 min read

by Nicole Santa Cruz ProPublica is a Pulitzer Prize-winning investigative newsroom. Sign up for The Big Story newsletter to receive stories like this one in your inbox. Series: The Repatriation Project:The Delayed Return of Native Remains America’s institutions maintain control of more than a hundred thousand remains of...

The Met Will “More Thoroughly” Investigate Artwork Origins With Hire of Provenance Researchers

by ProPublica in Dig It May 13, 2023 — 4 min read

by Kathleen Sharp for ProPublica ProPublica is a Pulitzer Prize-winning investigative newsroom. Sign up for The Big Story newsletter to receive stories like this one in your inbox. Series: The Repatriation Project The Delayed Return of Native Remains The Metropolitan Museum of Art announced this week that it plans to...

Is the Metropolitan Museum of Art Displaying Objects That Belong to Native American Tribes?

by ProPublica in Dig It Apr 25, 2023 — 18 min read

Dozens of Museums and Universities Pledge to Return Native American Remains. Few Have Funded the Effort.

by ProPublica in The Arts Mar 15, 2023 — 8 min read

Nobel prize: Svante Pääbo’s ancient DNA discoveries offer clues as to what makes us human

by The Conversation in Dig It Oct 4, 2022 — 3 min read

States with the most dinosaur fossils

by Stacker in Dig It Aug 28, 2022 — 17 min read

New Voyage to retrace the same route taken by Charles Darwin nearly 200 years ago

by Mongabay in Dig It Aug 21, 2022 — 7 min read

How to enjoy ‘parkitecture’ in Yellowstone National Park that has survived earthquakes, wildfire

by Idaho Capital Sun in Dig It May 24, 2022 — 4 min read

Archaeological site along the Nile opens a window on the Nubian civilization that flourished in ancient Sudan

by Newswire in Dig It Apr 12, 2022 — 6 min read

Sir Ernest Shackleton (1874 - 1922)

by History Lives and Ryan Knowles in History Lives Mar 14, 2022 — 2 min read

Captain Cook's long last ship Endeavour believed found near Rhode Island

by Newswire in Dig It Feb 3, 2022 — 2 min read

Did male and female dinosaurs differ? A new statistical technique is helping answer the question

by The Conversation in Dig It Feb 1, 2022 — 6 min read

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Archaeologists Discover 4,500 year old "Funerary Avenue" in Saudia Arabia

by Newswire in Dig It Jan 16, 2022 — 2 min read

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