Carving found in rural British garden fetches small fortune at ...
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A 1,000-year-old stone carving that spent years marking the grave of a couple&#39;s pet cat was sold at auction Friday for more than 200,000 pounds (US$380,000; euro280,000).
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By BRIAN DONNELLY  WITH the promise of cheap land, it might just be a steppe in the right direction for adventurous Scottish farmers.
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TORONTO - Police have found a rare pendant that belonged to a 19th century Austrian queen and was stolen from a castle there in 1998.
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A FARMER may be ordered to replant a small forest after chopping down the trees to use as firewood.   Alan Whiteford felled more than half of the young wood before forestry officials caught him.
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Scientists drilling ice cores in Greenland have recovered what appear to be plant remains from nearly 3km (two miles) below the surface.
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Â· South African find is twice as big as the Cullinan Â· Expert predicts feverish bidding on huge stone
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When folk singer Peter Yarrow's  hand-built Larrivee acoustic guitar turned up for sale on eBay  last week, no one was more surprised than Peter Yarrow.
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Archaeologists working near Stonehenge in England have discovered what appears to be an ancient religious complex containing a treasure trove of artifacts that might finally illuminate the lives and religious ...Comment
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Yixing ware is the focus of a small but fascinating exhibition at the China Institute gallery.
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A rare 11th century rock crystal ewer,  misidentified as a 19th Century French claret jug, has sold for  220,000 pounds ($428,800) at auction, more than one thousand  times its pre-sale estimate, the Art Newspaper said on Monday.
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LONDON: A medieval limestone slab which for years has been used as a gravestone for a dead cat called Winkle has fetched more than Â£200,000 at auction.
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LONDON  - A 1,000-year-old stone carving that spent years marking the grave of a couple's pet cat was sold at auction Friday for more than &#36;465,000 Cdn.
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The search for tiny treasures continues.
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Archeologists working near Stonehenge in England have discovered an ancient religious complex containing a treasure trove of artifacts that may finally illuminate the lives and religious practices of the people ...Comment
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A fine arts gallery and federal prosecutors have reached an agreement to return a 17th-century carved altar piece to a rural Peruvian village church from where it was allegedly stolen.
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The hunt for tiny treasures continues.
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The stones were likely heated in a fire and quickly doused in cold water, cracking before being placed along the serpentine earthen mound. The result: a curving paved structure possibly used in a ritual by Britain's Bronze Age inhabitants.