The purchase of a 3,000-year-old Assyrian sculpture at Christie’s on Wednesday for a record US$31 million has upset members of the Assyrian community, who view the ancient gypsum relief as part of ...

Christie’s New York will auction an important Assyrian relief on behalf of the Virginia Theological Seminary, the largest accredited Episcopal seminary in the U.S., which has housed the ancient ...

Buried treasure: the valuable Banquet Scene (645BC-635BC) is stored on the floor of the museum's basement galleries. (The Trustees of the British Museum) The British Museum's hidden basement galleries ...

A bidding war at Christie's this week sent the price of a 3,000-year-old stone relief from $7 million to more than $28 million, setting a world record for ancient Assyrian artworks and raising fears ...

Detail of the NW x NE website home page Credit: Middlebury College digital methodologies class On May 4, the 10 Middlebury College students in Sarah Laursen’s course on digital methodologies for art ...

On May 4, the 10 Middlebury College students in Sarah Laursen's course on digital methodologies for art historians held their final class of the semester on Zoom. That wasn't unusual, because ...

The 3,000-year-old relief fetched more than $28 million at Christie's, more than any other similar work. But some archaeologists worry the high... A bidding war at Christie's this week sent the price ...