Tom Swope's blog

  Early Chinese society was shamanic and animistic. There was a cult of ancestor worship for the ruling class, and they created many bronze ...

  Miguel Covarrubias, was a Mexican born artist and early pioneer of the study of pre-Columbian art. He spent much of his life in New York C...

                    On left, jade pendant with monster mask from China, Western Chou Dynasty, ca 1000 B.C. On the right, stacked God masks f...

View of Hacienda Aké   I have only recently discovered the little known, and under appreciated, Mayan site of Aké, which is about an hour fr...

  Chalcatzingo Monument 9 In early April it was announced in the press that the government of Mexico had negotiated the return of a major Ol...

This jade ceremonial axe, called a Yue, from the Neolithic period in China sold at the latest "Important Chinese Art" sale at Soth...

Investigators seized 27 antiquities from the Metropolitan Museum of Art, including this marble head of a Greek youth dated to the third to s...