09/23/2002. PALMA DE MALLORCA,...

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11/21/2008. NEW YORK.- Christie's announced the fall sales of Antiquities and the tenth annual Ancient Jewelry sale, on December 9. Both sales will offer a strong selection of works, from sculptures to wearable ancient art representing Egypt, the Near Ea...

02/10/2010. LONDON.- A lovely Roman marble bust that film director, Franco Zeffirrelli gave as a wedding gift to friends who worked with him on the filming of 'The Taming of the Shrew' will be sold at Bonham...

09/07/2010. MARINA, EGYPT (AP).- Today, it's a sprawl of luxury vacation homes where Egypt's wealthy play on the white beaches of the Mediterranean coast. But 2,000 years ago, this was a thriving Greco-Roman port city, boasting villas of merchants grown r...

09/08/2010. MARINA, EGYPT (AP).- Today, it's a sprawl of luxury vacation homes where Egypt's wealthy play on the white beaches of the Mediterranean coast. But 2,000 years ago, this was a thriving Greco-Roman port city, boasting villas of merchants grown r...

07/10/2011. CAIRO (AP).- Egyptian officials say archaeologists have unearthed the first basilica erected in the Mediterranean port city of Alexandria. Antiquities authorities say the basilica is dated to the Roman era and was built on the ruins of a t...

03/22/2012. MEKNES (AP).- Visitors to Morocco usually head straight for the beaches or plunge into the winding alleys of exotic medieval markets, but this rich North African country also has a wealth of ruins from its days as a Roman colony. Few visit ...

05/28/2012. NEW YORK, NY.- On June 8, Christie�'s Antiquities sale will offer a 9,000-year-old limestone mask from the Judean desert that is among the earliest sculptural types to survive from the anc...

11/21/2012. NEW YORK, NY.- Christie’s announced the sale of Antiquities on December 5, which will feature over 200 superb works of art that embrace the cultures of Egypt, Greece, Rome and the Nea...

06/04/2015. Two Rembrandt masterpieces painted in 1630 and 1631—"The Prophet Jeremiah Lamenting the Destruction of Jerusalem," which is on special loan from the Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam, for the Museum's 50th anniversary, and St. Peter in Prison (St. Peter Kn...

01/21/2017. The UN on Friday led condemnation of attacks by Islamic State jihadists on two sites in Syria's ancient city of Palmyra, calling the destruction a "war crime" and "cultural cleansing". In a statement, Irina Bokova, director general of the Paris-ba...

04/13/2017. An Inrap team is currently excavating, under State curation (Drac Occitanie), part of the history of the city of Uzès, from Antiquity to the Middle Ages. The archaeologists have recently uncovered lar...

10/11/2018. Israel unveiled Tuesday a stone pillar engraved with an ancient inscription showing that the spelling of Jerusalem in its present-day Hebrew form was already in common use some 2,000 years ago. During construction work in February in Jerusalem, ar...

01/07/2026. In ancient Greek and Roman architectural traditions, orders were assigned by the ornamentation exemplified in the columns of the era. Distinctive capitals and fluting defined the orders, starting with the simple Doric, followed by the increasingly or...