Ancient Art & Antiques
During the Middle Ages, books of hours were more popular than any other text, even the Bible. These intricately illustrated devotional texts began to appear around 1250 and contained a series of psalms meant to be read at eight specific hours of the day, hence their name. Hymns, lessons, and biblical readings were rendered with varying...
On Sunday 20 May at the Sydney InterContinental hotel, Mossgreen Auctions will sell an extraordinary gathering of European and Australian antiques, art and works of art at what the auction house has described as “one of the biggest and most spectacular auctions of recent times”.For almost three decades, Thomas Hamel an award-winning...
Scholars hope that recent discoveries at Khirbet Qeiyafa, an archeological site southwest of Jerusalem, will shed new light on the ancient history of present-day Israel, and even corroborate the story of David and Goliath recounted in the Bible. Though leaving ample room for debate, Yosef Garfinkel, an archaeologist at the...
John Taylor, a world renowned Egyptologist from the British Museum, has uncovered a previously unattributed collection of fragments from an extremely rare and valuable Egyptian Book of the Dead at Australia’s Queensland Museum.The fragments were discovered after Taylor stumbled upon a single small shred on display as part of the museum’s...
Melbourne, Australia based auction house Mossgreen Auctions will hold a major sale of important international art and antiques at their South Yarra saleroom on Monday the 23rd of April at 6:30pm local time.For online bidding see:http://www.the-saleroom.com/en-gb/auction-catalogues/mossgreen-auctionsFor the full catalogue see:http://www....
How did a Brooklyn man smuggle enough Egyptian artifacts into the U.S. to open a small museum? Mostly by lying on customs forms. On Wednesday the New York antiques dealer Mousa Khouli (aka Morris Khouli), 38, pleaded guilty to smuggling Egyptian artifacts into the country at a Brooklyn courthouse, including an ancient sarcophagus in...
Australian auction house Mossgreen’s sale of Australian and international art and antiques was a great success for the company which will donate a percentage of funds from the auction to the National Trust Tasmania to assist with the upkeep of the many historic houses in Tasmania.Held at the historic Tasmanian property Clarendon House,...
The St Cuthbert Gospel, a 7th century manuscript copy of the Gospel of St John, has joined the British Library collection following the most successful fundraising campaign in the library's 39-year history.This rare document is the oldest European book to have survived undamaged. It was placed in St Cuthbert's coffin on Lindisfarne, on...
On Sunday 15 April, Australian auction house Mossgreen will hold an auction of Australian and International art and antiques with an emphasis on colonial works of art at one of Tasmania's finest National Trust properties, Clarendon House, close to the charming village of Evandale.A percentage of funds from this auction will be donated by...
The Bronze Age settlement of Akrotiri, home to some of the world's most prized artifacts of Minoan civilization and culture, has been reopened to the public following a tragic accident seven years ago in which a British tourist was killed and several others were injured. Speaking at a press conference on Wednesday, the beaming ...
