For years, major artifacts sold to collectors and museums have been attributed to a Bremen-born naval officer who apparently ...

The Treasure of Villena, as the cache of 66 mostly gold objects is known, was discovered more than 60 years ago in 1963 in what is now Alicante in Spain, and has since come to be regarded as one of ...

Alastair Sooke picks treasures ... golden mask of boy king Tutankhamun, Sooke also explores architectural wonders, exquisite tombs and a lost city - site of the greatest artistic revolution in ...

Unlike the tombs of other ancient Egyptian ... a gold-plated leopard head, intricate ceremonial objects, or a simple linen scarf? These are the items that were found in a small fancy wooden chest ...