Ancient Art & Antiques
A picture the buyer of a violin sent to the selller, showing they had destroyed it. PayPal has again come under fire, this time for ordering the buyer of an antique French violin to destroy it to get a refund - rather than send it back to the seller...[...
Coming Soon: Ancient Egypt has long fascinated travellers and scholars, not to mention the rest of us. The beliefs and rituals practised by this legendary civilisation have left a rich legacy which continues to fascinate today. From February...[content:...
“The heart is the language of the lover.” That's according to the inscription on the mouthpiece of a pipe probably used for smoking hashish and dating back to the Ottoman period which has been discovered in an archaeological excavation in Israel....[content:...
Rocket scientists are studying 2,500-year-old Greek pottery because they believe its properties could help them design more effective heat tiles. Scientists from the Getty Conservation Institute, Stanford’s National Accelerator Laboratory and the...[content:...
A vegetable seller named Babylas was the target of an alarming curse nearly 2,000 years ago. Written on a lead tablet found in Antioch, one of the largest cities in the Roman Empire, the curse calls on the gods to tie up the hapless greengrocer, then...[...
A hoard of ancient Greek coins, some of which date from the 4th and 5th centuries BC, could fetch as much as $100 million at auction in New York. The "Prospero Collection," which was started by Richard Seifert, the controverisal architect behind London's...[...
An archaeological excavation in the Jewish Quarter of Jerusalem has uncovered a centuries-old clay pipe inscribed with the phrase "Love is the language for lovers." Literally translated, the inscription reads "Heart is language for the lover." And, not...[...
The police claimed to have recovered antiquities from a man’s custody who had allegedly sold them to a jeweller in Peshawar in connivance with...
The collection was assembled by Henry Blundell (1724-1810), who built two extensions to the house—the Garden Temple (around 1775) and the Pantheon (1802-10)—to display his vast collection of antiquities, filling interior and exterior niches with works...[...
Jean Claude Gandur, a Swiss billionaire who has loaned his private collection of Egyptian antiquities to the Museum of Fine Arts, spoke to about 30 Pinellas County...
