Artefacts

Tamil Nadu's Idol Wing recovers 56 stone idols, 22 pillars, 12 metal statues from businessman Ranvir Shah's home

Idol Wing DSP Ashok Natarajan said a total of 89 items including 56 stone idols, 22 pillars and 12 metal statues were recovered from Ranvir Shah's home on Thursday.

Inside Sarmaya, a self-funded museum which attempts to revive India's dying art forms

Sarmaya boasts of a collection of ancient coins, maps, and tribal art forms. It conducts workshops and outreach programmes in schools and colleges | #FirstCulture

Secrets of the deep: Senegal's slave shipwreck detective

Staring out to sea on a sunny day, underwater archaeologist Ibrahima Thiaw visualises three shipwrecks somewhere beneath the Atlantic waves of Senegal that were once packed with slaves. He wants more than anything to find them.

#ModiInUS: Washington returns 200 ancient cultural artefacts; PM thankful

From a bronze Ganesh to a Jain figure of Bahubali, the US has returned more than 200 pieces of rare cultural artefacts to India during #ModiInUS