British Museum Saves Medieval Psalter
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A fund-raising campaign has saved a rare, richly illustrated medieval psalter from moving to the J. Paul Getty Museum, organizers said Monday.
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The relics of two early Christian saints have been returned to the seat of the Orthodox Church. Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew escorted the relics of Saint John Chrysostom and Saint Gregory Nazianzen
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A copy of the warrant that was used for the execution of Mary Queen of Scots has been bought by the Archbishop of Canterbury's library.
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A precious Viking arm ring is handed to a museum after it was found among a late father's belongings.
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TWO veteran code-breakers from Yorkshire have received a worldwide response to their request for solutions to an enigmatic message on a monument in Staffordshire reputed to say where the Holy Grail is hidden.
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An exhibit at the British Museum shows the Parthenon Marbles not as austere colourless ghosts, but as the ancient Greeks saw them.
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A British archaeologist claimed to have found a large cave just west of Jerusalem which might have been occupied by Saint John the Baptist, the biblical figure who baptised Jesus Christ.
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A chemist who worked on testing of the Shroud of Turin says new analysis of the fiber indicates the cloth that some say was the burial linen of Jesus could be up to 3,000 years old.
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A tiny ivory pomegranate once  believed to be the only relic of King Solomon's biblical era  Jewish Temple turns out not to be an artifact from the holy  shrine, the Israel Museum said on Friday.
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A stone marking a pet cat&#39;s grave fetched more than Â£200,000 at Sotheby&#39;s yesterday after experts said it was a 1,100-year-old Anglo-Saxon carving.
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Ancient writings from the Dead Sea scrolls are to be read for the first time by British scientists using powerful x-rays.
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Pray or pay. At dozens of Italian churches struggling to preserve art treasures from Byzantine mosaics to Baroque paintings, that is the choice many visitors must make.
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Archeologists found a small container with a whitish medicinal or cosmetic cream made up of animal fat, starch and tin oxide. Researchers writing in the November edition of the British magazine Nature say
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Hoard buried for over 1,000 years goes on display at the British Museum.
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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 (about R1,95-million) at auction on Friday.
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Archaeologists discovered a rare Roman limestone sarcophagus containing a headless skeleton at the site of an historic London's church, authorities said Friday.
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A collection of artworks, thought to be worth up to Â£100m, is donated to the Tate and the National Gallery.