Malaysia's mega-wealthy king has blown GBP 250,000 on a special 'GOLD 1' car number plate to add to his astonishing collection of more than 300 luxury motors. Yang di-Pertuan Agong…
A 19th-century royal painting missing for more than 100 years is to go under the hammer for EUR 160,000 after it was rediscovered in a private collection. The artwork, 'La…
Scientists examining one of the few items to have escaped a devastating fire that destroyed a spectacular museum collection have discovered a previously unknown species of insect. The Brazilian National…
A fabulous jewellery collection once owned by multi-billionaire Heidi Horten is to go under the hammer at Christie's for an expected USD 150 million. Art connoisseur Horten inherited the bulk…
A private collection of nearly 200 ancient human bones and more than 350 archaeological treasures have been seized by police from homes in Spain. Civil Guard officers recovered an astonishing…
Police have retrieved a "considerable part" of the EUR 113 million gems collection stolen in one of the biggest jewellery thefts in history. The astonishing diamonds and rare artefacts dating…
A new collection of extremely rare colour portraits of ancient Egyptian mummies have been discovered painted on the newly discovered 2,000-year-old caskets of their owners. The paintings are said to…
A huge collection of nearly 500 ancient Roman and Celtic gold coins worth up to EUR 3 million have been stolen in a raid on a museum in Germany. Police…
Museum chiefs trying to recover a EUR-110-million haul stolen in a heist were conned into handing a fortune in cash to a fraudster, prosecutors in Germany have revealed. The collection…
A British research and charity institution has donated its enormous bird specimen collection to one of the leading natural history museums of Central Europe. The Natural History Museum Vienna (NHM)…