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2024 Was a Record Year for Archeological Finds Made by UK Citizens

01/21/2026

The British Museum announced today that 2024 was a record year for archeological discoveries made in the UK by members of the public, with 79,616 finds recorded. Of those, 1540 were “treasure” as defined by the UK’s 1996 Treasure Act, …

Метки : археологиянаходкибританский музейсокровищаметаллодетекторыистория.

Fabergé Egg, ‘Mona Lisa of the Decorative Arts,’ Sells for $30.2 M.

12/04/2025

A rare Fabergé egg created from crystal and adorned with diamonds sold for £22.9 million (around $30.2 million) on Tuesday at Christie’s London, where the price broke the record as the highest ever for a Fabergé egg at auction. The …

Метки : фабержеискусствоаукционалмазысокровищаистория.

137-Karat ‘Florentine Diamond' Discovered in a Vault in Canada

11/06/2025

A 137-carat diamond owned by the Medicis and the Habsburgs and long thought to have vanished has spent decades in a bank vault in Canada, according to The New York Times. The so-called Florentine Diamond was secreted away when the …

Метки : алмазгабсбургиистория.сокровищатайнаискусство

20,000 Medieval Coins Discovered by Man Digging for Worms

10/15/2025

A man digging for worms during a stay at his summer house near Stockholm unearthed something else instead: a cache of up to 20,000 silver coins from the Early Middle Ages, as well as pearls, pendants, and rings. The haul …

Метки : сокровищаархеологияистория.стокгольмсредневековьенаходки

Massive Hoard of Iron Age Treasures Unearthed in England

03/27/2025

Massive Hoard of Iron Age Treasures Unearthed in England More than eight hundred artifacts dating to the Iron Age have beendiscoveredin England, comprising one of the largest such troves ever found in the UK. Dating to the first century AD, …

Метки : железный векархеологиянаходкиисторические артефактывеликобританиясокровища

A Trove of Ancient Jewelry Discovered At Egypt's Karnak Temples

03/07/2025

A collection of jewelry dating back to the early 26th Dynasty has been found by archaeologists during excavation work in the northwestern part of the Karnak Temple in Luxor, Egypt. The Temple of Karnak is one of Egypt’s most significant …

Метки : раскопкихрам карнакдревний египетархеологиясокровищакультурное наследие

Iowa Museum First in US to Return Benin Bronzes

07/20/2024

The University of IowaStanley Museum of Arton July 15 handed over twoBenin bronzesto the oba of Benin, becoming the first US institution to return the looted treasures to the former head of the royal family of Benin. The items, a …

Метки : музейштат айовасшастатуибенинуниверситетискусствосокровищакор

Met to Return Looted Treasures to Cambodia, Thailand

12/19/2023

New York’s Metropolitan Museum of Art on December 15 announced that it will repatriate sixteen Khmer-era antiquities to Cambodia and Thailand. The objects, fourteen of which belong to the former country and two to the latter, were likely taken from …

Метки : сокровищавамбоджутаиландворовство