Ancient Art & Antiques
The casualties of Bashar al-Assad's bloody crackdown in restive Syria number in the thousands. Now, the embattled Syrian opposition forces in the Movement for National Change are calling attention to the cultural toll of the brutal onslaught. The...
Former Metropolitan director Phillipe de Montebello famously faced one of the greatest challenges of his career over looted Greek antiquities in the museum's collection, ultimately diffusing it with his ingenious “returns-for-loans” strategy. Now, new...
Australian auction house Theodore Bruce Auctions found themselves in the enviable position of being at the forefront of a developing trend in the market for antique Chinese porcelain during their 19th February sale of Asian art and antiques.Included in the...
Atahualpa, the last Inca emperor, ruled over a vast terrain that stretched along the Pacific Ocean from Ecuador to Chile. After winning the crown in 1532 through a bitter civil war with his brother after their father's death, he was ambushed and executed by...
One of the most significant pictorial colonial records of New South Wales during the early 19th century will go on display in Australia for the first time after being discovered in Canada last year.Made in Newcastle by Captain James Wallis and convict artist...
The British Museum has just unveiled the first extensive exhibition dedicated to Hajj, the pilgrimage to Mecca all Muslims are compelled to make at least once during their lifetime. Mecca is Islam's holiest city, the site where Prophet Mohammad received his...
PALM BEACH, Fla. — Before entering the American International Fine Art Fair, a Palm Beach show known for its vast array of blue-chip antiques, one might have various assumptions about the age of its attendees — probably pretty high — and the fair's cool...
Early Afghan artifacts are a reminder that the country was once at the confluence of several trade routes These days, Afghanistan is usually associated with war and deprivation. But millennia before the Soviet invasion unleashed 30 years of upheaval, and....[...
Antiquities, tribal art, ceramics, porcelain, engravings, and tapestries: the Brussels Antiques & Fine Arts Fair (BRAFA) will once again be overflowing with treasures when it opens tomorrow in Tours & Taxis, a former railway depot whose 150,000-...
THE top archeological discoveries of 2011 have been published and one expert says serious archeology is suffering because of rapid infrastructure development. Zhang Qian digs in. Compared with 2010's spectacular findings of Cao Cao's tomb, dinosaur bones....[...
