Ancient Art & Antiques
BOSTON — ANTIQUES ROADSHOW, PBS's most-watched primetime series, has announced its Summer 2012 Tour destinations: Boston, MA; Myrtle Beach, SC; Rapid City, SD; Cincinnati, OH; Corpus Christi, TX; and Seattle, WA...
The Babyshambles rocker is not interested in a 50 per cent discount at DFS. He went to an antiques fair in Paris and bought... five crack pipes. The collectors' items were all from the 1930s, when they were used for lab experiments. But what former...[content...
NEW YORK — A well-preserved 2,000-year-old scroll of the Ten Commandments discovered in a cave is going on display in the city for the first time beginning Friday. The tiny scroll will be shown for 10 days at the Discovery Times Square exhibition space...[...
The Dead Sea nearly disappeared about 120,000 years ago, say researchers who drilled more than 1,500 feet below one of the deepest parts of the politically contentious body of water. The discovery looms large at a time when the Dead Sea is shrinking rapidly...
MUSKEGON — St. Paul's Episcopal Church will receive a welcome financial boost from the proceeds generated by a once prominent Muskegon resident's estate sale. Norma York-Bremer, who coordinated the estate sale of Richard Charles Ford, who died last month...[...
This Thursday, April 14, 2011 photo shows a view of the Sea of Galilee along the Gospel Trail in northern Israel. A new trail across northern Israel offers travelers the chance to walk _ or trot _ through New Testament sites in the footsteps of Jesus...[...
Pictured is the ancient site of Khan al-Umdan in the old city of Acre in Israel. Archaeologists announced in June that they have unearthed an old...
JERUSALEM — Mysterious stone carvings made thousands of years ago and recently uncovered in an excavation underneath Jerusalem have archaeologists stumped. Israeli diggers who uncovered a complex of rooms carved into the bedrock in the oldest section of...[...
PARIS — The story of men, women and children plucked from their homes in the West's colonies and exhibited like zoo animals is the focus of a major show that opened on Monday at Paris' tribal arts museum. “Exhibitions: the invention of the savage,” at...[...
The three-storey palace refurbished for Khedive Ismail's granddaughter, Princess Samiha Hussein, overlooks the Nile Corniche in Zamalek. It owes...
