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Christie’s sale of the estate of David Rockefeller could reach $1 billion, breaking all records
In one French art museum, more than half of the paintings are now believed to be fakes or forgeries
Questions linger in the strange end to Richard the Lionheart in 1199
Dead Sea Scrolls news: imaging technology has helped researchers detect previously hidden text
Hobby Lobby smuggling ring: how an arts-and-crafts chain got involved in a controversial purchase of more than 5,500 artifacts from the Sumerian civilization
The decades-long mystery behind the “sailing stones” of Racetrack Playa in Death Valley may be solved
An Argentinean engineer could have developed a “rainmaking machine” as early as the 1930s, though there’s no trace of it today
First Titanic menu, listing options such as Spring Lamb and Pudding Sans Souci, fetched about $140,000 at an auction
Jack the Ripper “warning” postcard auctions for $30,000 but no one can confirm that he sent, or any other letters
The future Elizabeth I was cast off and virtually forgotten about as a child by King Henry VIII, forcing her governess to write letters begging for clothes
