BIRMINGHAM.- A collection of rare photographs from the first photography commission for a Royal trip abroad has been purchased by Birmingham Library and Archive Services. Taken by the pioneering British photographer Francis Bedford (1816-1894), they ch…
Library of Birmingham Boosted by Important 19th Century Photography Collection
BIRMINGHAM.- A collection of rare photographs from the first photography commission for a Royal trip abroad has been purchased by Birmingham Library and Archive Services. Taken by the pioneering British photographer Francis Bedford (1816-1894), they ch…
Stone Tool Troves Point to Highland Neanderthals
By: Nicholas Paphitis, Associated Press
ATHENS (AP).- High in the wind-swept mountain ridges of northern Greece, archaeologists have made a surprising discovery: hundreds of prehistoric stone tools that may have been used by some of the last Neandertha…
Important Greek Silver, Roman Gold Feature in First Joint Heritage Auctions-Gemini CICF Sale
DALLAS, TX.- A silver decadrachm of Athens struck 2,500 years ago, a silver tetradrachm of Naxos in Sicily struck circa 430 BC and a remarkable offering of Roman gold coins – spanning the history of the Empire – highlight the first joint auc…
Archaeologists Discover Cretan Tools That Point to 130,000 to 700,000-Year-Old Sea Travel
ATHENS (AP).- Archaeologists on the island of Crete have discovered what may be evidence of one of the world’s first sea voyages by human ancestors, the Greek Culture Ministry said Monday A ministry statement said experts from Greece and the U.S. have …
Archaeologists Discover Cretan Tools That Point to 130,000 and 700,000 Year-Old Sea Travel
ATHENS (AP).- Archaeologists on the island of Crete have discovered what may be evidence of one of the world’s first sea voyages by human ancestors, the Greek Culture Ministry said Monday A ministry statement said experts from Greece and the U.S. have …
Archaeologists Discover Cretan Tools That Point to 130,000-Year-Old Sea Travel
ATHENS (AP).- Archaeologists on the island of Crete have discovered what may be evidence of one of the world’s first sea voyages by human ancestors, the Greek Culture Ministry said Monday A ministry statement said experts from Greece and the U.S. have …
Unseen for 100 Years: Georgios Jakobides’ Peek-A-Boo Comes to Light at Bonhams
LONDON.- A Munich School masterpiece by the Greek painter, Georgios Jakobides (1852-1932), which has been hidden from the public eye for over a century, and was recently discovered in a private collection in Athens, is to be sold at Bonhams, New Bond S…
Sotheby’s Announces an Exceptional Array of Greek Art this Winter
LONDON.- Sotheby’s will once again this year bring an exceptional array of Greek art to the market. The company’s second Greek Sale of 2010 will take place in London on Monday, 22 November, 2010 and it will present for sale rare and important work…
Sotheby’s Announces an Exceptional Array of Greek Art this Winter
LONDON.- Sotheby’s will once again this year bring an exceptional array of Greek art to the market. The company’s second Greek Sale of 2010 will take place in London on Monday, 22 November, 2010 and it will present for sale rare and important work…