Ancient carving used as stray cat's gravestone sells for huge sum
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A 10th century stone carving used for many years as a headstone to mark the grave of a British couple's cat sold for 175,000 pounds (250,000 euros, 330,000 dollars) at auction.
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It looks like a Countdown conundrum and has defied some of the greatest minds for 250 years. But ten letters - D OUOSVAVV M - etched on a tablet at a stately home could reveal where the legendary Holy Grail is buried.
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A Quran written in 1203, believed to be the oldest known complete copy, has sold for more than $2.3 million at an auction.
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A stone slab bearing 3,000-year-old writing previously unknown to scholars has been found in Mexico.
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OAKLAND, Calif. - A woman who auctioned an old painting hoping to get a few thousand dollars toward her daughter's college tuition was stunned when the picture fetched $600,000.
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A rare piece by renowned Chinese artist Xu Beihong has smashed the record for a Chinese oil painting, selling for HK$53.9 million (US$6.9 million) at a Christie's auction in Hong Kong on Sunday.
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The discovery of remains belonging to a tiny species of ancient human has been hailed as one of the most sensational finds of its type in decades.
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By Cammy Clark, The Miami Herald  Feb. 5--KEY WEST -- He has sold $30 million worth of his realism sculptures to museums, cities, private collectors and universities in such far-flung places as Hong Kong, Sydney, Istanbul and Kiev.
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A new study suggests the ancient Egyptians put as much care into mummifying some cats, birds, and other animals as they did into preserving human corpses.
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A dilapidated car listed as the &quot;biggest pile of crap on Ebay&quot; found fame on the Internet, attracting 34,000 hits and selling for 430 pounds on the online auction site, its owner has said.
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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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A stone carving that was used as a cat&#39;s headstone has sold for Â£200,000 at auction - five times its estimate. The medieval limestone relief of St Peter was discovered at a quarry by a stonemason Johnny Beeston, from Dowlish Wake, Somerset.
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Skin and bones of endangered Sumatran tigers are sold openly in parts of Indonesia for traditional medicine and jewelry despite bans, a trend that could mean the big cats' eventual extinction, a conservation group warned Wednesday.
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A record number of original works by Banksy are expected to fetch up to Â£300,000 in total at a London sale.
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Archaeologists say they have found a huge ancient settlement used by the people who built Stonehenge.
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The stunning sale of a tiny antiquity has increased interest in the once-overlooked market for ancient coins, sculpture and pottery
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An unknown painting by old master El  Greco, discovered by chance in a brown envelope in a flat in  Spain, will be offered for sale in December with a starting  price of 600,000 pounds ($1.1 million).