The New Mexico state emblem, one of the most instantly recognizable state emblems, was stolen from Native Americans.

At Harvard, an art collective documents the strange beauty of “castaway” garbage and its place in the landscape.

The Peabody Museum of Archaeology & Ethnology is open daily from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m., except for major holidays. Admission costs $15 for adults and $10 for youths ages 3 to 18; kids 3 and younger ...

Clements R. Markham. A Selection of Papers on Arctic Geography and Ethnology, reprinted and presented to the Arctic Expedition of 1875, by the President, Council, and Fellows of the Royal ...

By turning to legal intervention, universities treat artifacts as intellectual property and miss important opportunities to ...

The settlement comes after a 15 year legal battle between the university and a Connecticut woman who claims she is a ...

The 19th-century daguerreotypes, long held by Harvard’s Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology, were commissioned by Swiss-born biologist Louis Agassiz, a Harvard professor who used the images in ...

An illustration of a magnifying glass. An illustration of a magnifying glass.

Harvard University will relinquish 175-year-old photographs believed to be the earliest taken of enslaved people. A lawyer says the images will be transferred to a South Carolina museum devoted ...

It’s finally here. Summer solstice is this Friday, June 20. So cram in activities and events while Boston’s weather is at its ...

Harvard University reached a settlement Wednesday with the descendants of enslaved people who had their photos taken by a university professor back in the 1800s. Tamara Lanier, the great-great-great ...