One of the world's first 35mm cameras has been snapped up at auction for an amazing EUR 14.4 million. The hammer price set a new record for the most expensive…
An emperor's carpet that once lay in China’s Imperial Palace during the Ming dynasty has been sold for USD 324,500. The carpet - showing a large dragon around a flaming…
A painting by famous Renaissance artist Titian which was considered lost for over 150 years will be auctioned at one of the world's oldest auction houses after it was recently…
A super-rare Andy Warhols work could become the most expensive 20th century artwork to go under the hammer in a sale of more than 100 paintings from one of the…
New England fishermen were left stunned when they reeled in a 12,000-year-old mammoth tooth instead of their usual catch of clams and molluscs - and the charitable bunch has decided…
A painting by legendary 17th century Spanish artist Diego Velazquez has been sold at auction for a staggering EUR 4.27 million. The remarkably preserved oil painting 'Retrato de caballero' ('Portrait…
A painting which was sold to German-American film director William Dieterle in 1940 to avoid it being destroyed by the Nazis during World War II is set to be auctioned…
This letter written by Empress Catherine the Great of Russia in 1787 advocating vaccination has been sold for USD 1.26 million after it was put up for auction together with…
This glove worn by Empress Sisi on the day she was murdered and fetched nearly GBP 56,000 at auction. Elisabeth, Empress of Austria and Queen of Hungary (1837-1898) was murdered…
This stolen relic, believed to contain a bone belonging to a saint who died in 1597, that disappeared from a confessional chapel in Germany four years ago has been recovered…