A priceless pre-Columbian artefact has been recovered in London by Art Recovery Group and handed over to the Colombian Embassy.
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Colombia’s heritage statue park San Agustín in Google Street View
Google Street View has its cameras on Colombia’s San Agustín park declared a UNESCO World Heritage site in 1995.
Crown of the Andes sold on the cheap?
Colombia’s legendary Crown of the Andes recently sold to New York’s Metropolitan Museum of Art.
Spain, Colombia agree museum will house San José galleon fortune
Ministers from Spain and Colombia reached an agreement Monday to display the San José galleon fortune for the public in a museum.
Leticia’s Ethnographic Museum is a window on Amazon culture
Colombia’s newly re-opened Ethnographic Museum in Leticia takes visitors on a journey through the Amazon past and present.
Colombia tosses conviction of colonel who oversaw palace siege
Colombia’s high court freed Col. Alfonso Plazas, who had been imprisoned over disappearances during the 1985 Palace of Justice siege.
For Colombia, a high stakes battle over high seas treasure
After three centuries, the fight over the San José galleon and its billions in treasure rages on between Colombia, Spain and a U.S. salvage company.
The invaluable history of the San José Galleon
The San José, a Spanish galleon rumored to contain as much as US$17 billion in treasure, has been found in deep Colombian waters.
Giraldo: Living among ruins
The director of Global Heritage Fund’s Colombia program is an archaeologist whose ongoing work in ‘Ciudad Perdida’ has contributed to our understanding of the Tairona.
Santa Marta gets Tairona Gold Museum
After a six year overhaul of a heritage house, the Central Bank relaunches Santa Marta’s Tairona Gold Museum.
Reclaiming treasure
After more than a decade in Madrid’s Museum of the Americas, 691 pre-Columbian relics return to Colombia.
Colombian revisionism
A peace negotiation requires some ceding. Can the Colombian government and guerrillas exude some humility regarding 50 years of conflict?
Strange “haunt” in Bogotá for a Saturday night
One tour operator in Bogotá wants to scare clients into believing that the real fun happens six feet under.
Beneath a scorching sun
A solitary horseman on the flats of the Magdalena River recalls the creoles of the independence campaign against Spain.
A legend that lives on
The quest for gold churned up plenty of mud and memories of Muisca mayhem. A brief history of a lake and a legend.
A city caught in time
Time seems to stand still in Colombia’s capital. Despite digital and decay, some clocks are turning their hands once again.