The grandson of a rag and bone man who acquired a small metal cup is in line for a windfall after discovering it is a pure gold vessel dating back to the third or fourth century BC. 27 May 2008 • ...
A giant wave crashed over New York 2,300 years ago, scientists claimed yesterday. Geological experts say the ancient tsunami dumped sediment, shells and marine fossils across the region that date back ...
A 2,300-year-old rare gold crown is expected to fetch £100,000 after being discovered in a tatty cardboard box in Somerset. The delicate Greek myrtle wreath, which is thought to date to 300BC, is ...
An attempt has been made to steal the remains of Sigmund Freud – or more plausibly, the ancient Greek urn in which the ashes of the father of psychoanalysis, and those of his wife, Martha Bernays, ...
The Chinese exhibits are from the Chu civilization along the Yangtze, and made up mostly of ritual vessels and musical instruments of ancient China, dating from 5000BC to 300BC. A lot of the older ...
A Manhattan gallery’s lawsuit contesting the seizure and return of an ancient bust of Alexander the Great (around 300BC) has been dismissed, after a New York judge ruled in Italy’s favour. The suit, ...
The Kimbell Art Museum in Fort Worth, Texas, has acquired Standing Figure Holding a Were-Jaguar Baby (around 900BC-300BC), a jade statuette at the centre of Olmec civilisation studies since the ...
Chennai: Though history is the foundation for the present, research can throw new light to the past. Existing theories may be prone to change, as is the case with the Keeladi excavation site in ...
Such a wave today would flood Wall Street and the Long Island Expressway A huge wave crashed into the New York City region 2,300 years ago, dumping sediment and shells across Long Island and New ...