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Tens of thousands of ancient bronze coins have been found off the coast of the Italian island of Sardinia.

The Ancient City Belkis/Zeugma is located on the banks of the Euphrates River, built on a land of approximately 20 thousand acres. It has maintained its importance in every period of history because it is in the shallowest passable part of the Euphrates and is a very strategic region in terms of military and trade.

The Prince Bernhard Cultuurfonds will operate under a new name starting from Tuesday: the Cultuurfonds. The decision comes in the wake of the news that Prince Bernhard was a member of the NSDAP, Adolf Hitler's Nazi party.

Representatives of UK museums, sector bodies and funders took part in the first UK Museum COP at Tate Modern on 31st October 2023 organised by the NMDC. The event secured consensus from museum leaders on collective action to decarbonise the sector and mitigate the impacts of the climate and biodiversity crises.

The Ancient City Belkıs/Zeugma is located on the banks of the Euphrates River within the borders of Belkıs Village, Nizip District, Gaziantep Province. Belkıs/Zeugma Ancient City, it has maintained its importance in every period of history because it is in the shallowest passable part of the Euphrates and is a very strategic region in terms of military and trade.

Christie’s is selling the very fine pearl collier by Fürst, worn by Audrey Hepburn in the final scene of "Roman Holiday". The lot will be offered in the upcoming Jewels Online: The Geneva Edit sale taking place from 3 to 16 November (estimate CHF18,000-26,000). The Fürst family is originally Austro-Hungarian. In the 1850s, Moric Fürst moved to Turin to establish his business as a Jeweller and became a leading supplier for the Savoyard court.

The Mandarin Oriental Hong Kong has launched a unique, interactive performance art experience, which fuses AI technology with the ancient art of Chinese ink-brush painting to celebrate the iconic hotel’s 60th anniversary.

The golden toilet was installed in Blenheim Palace, the birthplace of former prime minister Sir Winston Churchill, as part of Italian concept artist Maurizio Cattelan's first solo exhibition in 20 years.

The Odessa National Art Museum was damaged as a result of a night attack on Odessa with the use of missiles and drones. The museum just celebrated it's 124-th birthday.

As part of the Whitney’s reimagined food and beverage program—which aims to create welcoming, approachable spaces for people to gather, connect, and recharge—Frenchette Bakery, which opened in TriBeCa in 2020, will open a new flagship location, with its first-ever cafe in the Museum’s redesigned ground-floor restaurant space in November 2023.

A temporary export bar has been placed on a walrus ivory carving of the Deposition from the Cross so a domestic buyer can be found.

Power of the Throne’ is a temporary exhibition that explores the meaning of thrones using art and historical objects. Including the Iron Throne from ‘Game of Thrones’!

The Frick Collection announced today the launch of the public phase of its capital campaign, which has already raised $242 million during its quiet phase in support of the ongoing renovation and enhancement of the institution’s historic buildings.

The Nasher Sculpture Center, a world-renowned museum dedicated to the field of sculpture, announces Director Jeremy Strick will retire from his leadership position in June 2024. Mr. Strick’s retirement from the museum field caps off a 40-year career and one in which he has served as Director of the Nasher for 15 of its 20 years, serving as the second-ever leader of the institution.

The Italian-born Brazilian artist Anna Maria Maiolino and the Paris-based Turkish artist Nil Yalter are the recipients of the Golden Lions for Lifetime Achievement of the 60th International Art Exhibition of La Biennale di Venezia - Stranieri Ovunque - Foreigners Everywhere (Giardini and Arsenale, April 20 - November 24, 2024).

A fiend, which has lurked unseen in a painting by Joshua Reynolds, has emerged following conservation work by the National Trust.

Within the silent, delicate petals of a bloom, lies an unspoken language that has whispered to the creative minds of artists, designers, and fashion moguls through the time. Flowers, in their fleeting existence, perpetually symbolize themes of beauty, mortality, and the passage of time, establishing a rich tapestry from which creatives draw inspiration.

The report revealed strong High Net Worth (HNW) collector spending in the first half of the year, with a notable increase from Mainland China post-lockdown, as in-person buying also continued its resurgence.

The couple from Eure-et-Loire took legal action to cancel the sale to a second-hand dealer in 2021 of the carved wooden mask that belonged to an ancestor, a former colonial governor in Africa, the value of which they were unaware of at the time, according to their lawyer.

Researchers from Dartmouth and the University of Cambridge identify the oldest artistic representation of a handaxe used by human ancestors.