British Museum receives donation of Chinese ceramics worth $1.27 billion
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Oldest stone tablet inscribed with Bible’s Ten Commandments to be sold at auction
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In this birthday party portrait, teenage girls celebrate in secret in Afghanistan
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British writer Samantha Harvey’s space-station novel ‘Orbital’ wins 2024 Booker Prize
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‘Refresh and reveal’: Celebrities strip off for latest edition of star-studded Pirelli calendar
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Marble bust bought for $6 and used as doorstop could sell for more than $3 million
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Huge crime network forging Banksy, Warhol and Picasso uncovered in Italy
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AI robot’s portrait of Alan Turing that ‘challenges what it is to be human’ sets record, selling for $1.08 million
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Rare pair of Ming Dynasty jars smash auction estimate, selling for $12.5 million
CNN — A pair of rare Ming Dynasty fish jars dating from…
What life is like in one of the most remote places on Earth
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