antiquities
At England's University of Southampton, a sophisticated X-ray machine is being used by archaeologists to make 3-D images of ancient objects while they’re still enclosed in pots, urns, or blocks of soil. Originally developed to scan turbine blades in...
SALE: Antiquities at Christie's and Sotheby'sLOCATION: New YorkDATE: June 7-8ABOUT: Next week, New York's auction houses will be taken over by ancient, rare marble statuary as Christie's and Sotheby's prepare for their respective antiquities sales. At Sotheby...
Ousted Tunisian dictator Zine al-Abidine Ben Ali and his family have already been accused of plundering the nation's antiquities, particularly the ancient site of Carthage, for their own personal gain and enjoyment. Now it seems that the family's illicit...
John Taylor, a world renowned Egyptologist from the British Museum, has uncovered a previously unattributed collection of fragments from an extremely rare and valuable Egyptian Book of the Dead at Australia’s Queensland Museum.The fragments were discovered...
