#cultural-artifacts

#cultural-artifacts

Alexander Butyagin, the head of the sector of ancient archaeology of the northern Black Sea region of the State Hermitage Museum in St Petersburg, was arrested in Poland in December 2025 at the request of Ukraine, which is seeking his extradition to stand trial in Ukraine. He is being charged with conducting illegal excavations in Crimea, the Black Sea peninsula illegally annexed by Russia in 2014.

When he landed, a group of artists were waiting, eager to view first-hand an object they had only seen in books, online and in a museum.

The MingKwai typewriter, invented by Lin Yutang, revolutionized Chinese typing by breaking down complex ideographs into fundamental components for easier usage.

Oxford University academics used a chalice made from a human skull potentially belonging to an enslaved Caribbean woman at formal dinners until as recently as 2015.