Zoomorphic récade featuring fish and a ram spitting lightning, from Abomey, ancient kingdom of Danhomè, Benin (copyright Vincent Girier Dufour) An auction of African artifacts in Nantes, France last ...

PHOENIX — A Paris judge will decide Thursday whether to block the sale of 70 “sacred objects” of Hopi origin by a French auction house. The sacred objects date back to the 1930s. At least one of the ...

Fragmentation, the way objects break into pieces, has long intrigued scientists. Researchers have observed that broken objects tend to produce fragments in a wide range of sizes, and the distribution ...