The year was 1625 and Sir Thomas Roe was stumped. England’s ambassador to the Ottoman Empire had recently waded into the murky world of antiquities collecting. He decried the “sordidness of barbarism” ...
A marble sculpture featuring ancient Greek goddess Aphrodite will be offered at a single-lot sale on Dec. 7 at Sotheby's London, with a presale estimate between £2 million and £3 million (US$2.66 ...
Apollo Art Auctions announces Fine Ancient Art & Antiquities – The Prince Collection, a forthcoming sale presenting works of ...
Stunning treasures from the renowned Italian museum Galleria Borghese in Rome will be the Loan Exhibition at this year’s TEFAF Maastricht. The Loan Exhibition entitled ‘Galleria Borghese – An Italian ...
ATHENS, Greece (AP) — The United States on Friday returned to Greece 30 ancient artifacts, including marble statues, armor helmets and breastplates, found to have been illicitly removed from the ...
A marble bust that a Texas woman bought for about $35 from a Goodwill store is temporarily on display at a San Antonio museum after experts determined it was a centuries-old sculpture missing from ...
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A Man Brought His Father’s ‘Piece of the Parthenon’ to Greek Officials. They Said It Was From an Even Older Temple in the Acropolis of Athens
When 77-year-old Chilean engineer Enrico Tosti-Croce heard on the radio that Greece was fighting for marble sculptures from the Acropolis of Athens to be returned, he knew what he had to do. “When I ...
This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. ATHENS, Greece (AP) — The United States on ...
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