Spain gets back stolen 15th century map
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A stolen 15th century map dating to the dawn of modern printing, a decade before Christopher Columbus sailed to America, was returned to Spain on Monday.
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A rare 710-year-old copy of the Magna Carta valued at up to $30 million is due to be sold by The Perot Foundation at Sotheby's in New York in December, the auction house said on Tuesday.
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The Spanish government said Thursday it has filed a lawsuit in a U.S. federal court against an American firm over a shipwreck the company has found laden with a colonial-era treasure.
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Authorities are investigating the theft of a rare 18th century manuscript about Rome's politically powerful Orsini family from an exhibit case at a University of California, Los Angeles library.
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It's a historian's equivalent of stumbling across a long-lost sonata - a fingerprint on an 18th-century letter that experts say may have been left by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart's father.
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A Spanish court has ordered police to capture and search two vessels belonging to a Florida firm that recently announced it had found a shipwreck in the Atlantic Ocean laden with an estimated $500 million worth of Colonial-era treasure, news reports said Tuesday.
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A violin worth about 2.5m euros ($3.4m) is returned to its owner in Vienna after being stolen last month.
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A painting by surrealist artist Rene Magritte - valued at Â£350,000 - is recovered after being stolen.
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Scientists in Spain say that they have found a tooth from a human ancestor more than one million years old.
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A 17th century Dutch painting valued at more than $1 million was stolen from an Australian state gallery during viewing hours over the weekend, and police suspect an inside job, officials said Thursday.
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The U.S. ambassador formally returned a 300-year-old wooden altarpiece to Mexico on Tuesday that thieves had tried to sell in the United States.
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Hitlerâs globe is missing. Wolfram Pobanz, a 68-year-old retired cartographer, is positive that itâs not the one in the Deutsches Historisches Museum, with the Russian bullet hole through Germany, and he can prove it.
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Cash'n'Carrion Designer cartography from The Rockall Times
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Police recovered paintings by Pablo Picasso and Candido Portinari worth millions of dollars stolen last month from Brazil's leading modern art museum
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AN ANTIQUE wine jug stolen from a church more than 40 years ago has been returned after it was put up for sale on eBay.   The ornate flagon was stolen from St John the Baptist Church in Treswell, Nottinghamshire, in 1965.
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Modern renaissance man Maurizio Seracini wants to find Leonardo's Battle of Anghiari. His organization Editech uses high-tech tools to track down historic Italian works of art that the years have hidden from the public eye.
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EL CALABOZ, Tex. -- In the 240 years since the Spanish Crown granted Eloisa Tamez's colonial ancestors title to this flat, grassy expanse along the Rio Grande's northern bank, her family has steadily lost its holdings to the Mexican War of Independence, the U.S. annexation of Texas and the Great ...