antiquity

A 2,000-year-old sculpture sold at Sotheby’s in New York for $34.3 million, after a bidding war to set a record for a Roman antiquity.

From Barron's ● Oct. 23, 2026

Earlier this week, the prizes for medicine, physics, chemistry and literature were announced in Stockholm, with the latter going to Canadian poet Anne Carson on Thursday for her modern twists on Greek mythology and antiquity.

From Barron's ● Oct. 9, 2026

The threats we face today are every bit as real as they were on the dramatic stage of antiquity.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 8, 2026

"Almost everything from antiquity has been destroyed," Seiler said.

From Science Daily ● Sep. 26, 2026

It has been claimed that Tassoni expresses a sense of liberation from the schoolroom of antiquity, but his claim is merely that the moderns must find a place in the schoolroom alongside the ancients.

From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton

In Europe and elsewhere, co-ordinated, multi-national police and customs operations take place regularly, seizing large numbers of stolen antiquities and arresting some of the traffickers.

From BBC ● Sep. 19, 2026

Tareq Abu Dayyeh sells craftwork, souvenirs and antiquities in Gaza.

From BBC ● Sep. 19, 2026

“In Iraq, Syria, in Lebanon, in Sudan, in Yemen; wherever you have antiquities, it’s a revenue stream,” he said.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 8, 2026

“Since Covid, business has been falling and individual tourists stopped coming,” said Zakariah Mashriqi, 47, who runs a family-owned antiquities shop in the Christian Quarter of Jerusalem’s Old City.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 14, 2026

A few months later, the Getty’s curator of antiquities, Marion True, wrote a long, glowing account of the museum’s acquisition for the art journal The Burlington Magazine.

From "Blink" by Malcolm Gladwell