I was hoping I could buy a new car. I couldn’t buy myself a new tyre for that amount.
When Indigenous artefacts are being returned,and there is global recognition of the sanctity of the dead. Why do we make an exception for Egyptian rulers?
The Chau Chak Wing museum will remove fragments of mummified bodies from display and will change the “colonial” name of its Mummy Room.
Straight to casualty.
A 77-piece gold collection is back in Cambodia after being handed over by the daughter of Douglas Latchford,who was charged before his death in 2020 with trafficking in looted Cambodian artefacts.
The country says dozens of “highly significant” items were plundered from Khmer shrines between 1970 and 2000 before being donated or sold to the New York museum.
Nancy Wiener has pleaded guilty to charges of conspiracy and possession of stolen property in connection with the trafficking of looted treasures – some of which were purchased by the National Gallery of Australia.
The wood,22 centimetres long and two centimetres wide is inside a display case with an inscription believed to have been written by the sister of botanist Sir Joseph Banks.
A £5 coin minted in Melbourne in 1921 and a George V Sovereign minted in Sydney in 1920 sold in a Monaco auction for about $1.5m each.
With price tags that can reach as high as $10,000,these toys are unlikely to be found under the Christmas tree.
The marble idol,carved as many as 6000 years ago and known as “The Guennol Stargazer” has become the source of a legal battle between Turkey and the Christie’s auction house.