artefacts
A gold pocket watch retrieved from the body of the Titanic's wealthiest passenger has been sold for a record-breaking £1.2 million (€1.4m) to a private collector in the US. The auction took place on Saturday at Henry Aldridge & Son in Devizes, Wiltshire, marking the highest amount ever paid for Titanic memorabilia, according to the auctioneers. The timepiece, belonging to John Jacob Astor IV of the affluent Astor family, fetched ten times its expected auction price of £100,000 to £150,000 (€117,000 to €175,000). At the time of the sinking, the 47-year-old Astor was one of the richest people on...
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The National Gallery in London has been undergoing a major makeover for its 200th anniversary. But as builders prepared to dig a new tunnel earlier this month underneath the National Gallery’s Jubilee Walk – the walkway linking Trafalgar Square and Orange Street – they also made a stunning archaeological discovery. The excavation site, with artefacts that include a hearth dating back to the 7th or 8th century, suggests that the Saxon settlement of Ludenwic once existed where the National Gallery now stands. Spanish archaeologists restore extraordinary 3,000-year-old Egyptian coffinArchaeologis...
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Phnom Penh (AFP) - A billionaire family in the United States will return more than 30 looted ancient artefacts to Cambodia after agreeing it "wrongfully possessed" the treasures, the Cambodian government said Wednesday. Years of civil war followed by the genocidal Khmer Rouge rule saw historical sites looted with near-impunity in Cambodia, which is famed for its Angkor Wat temple complex. Many of the pieces are thought to date back to the Khmer Empire, a once-mighty dynasty that sprawled across much of modern-day Cambodia, Thailand, Vietnam and Laos between the ninth and 15th centuries. A trov...
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