Rare 1,600-year-old purple fabric — woven with gold threads — found in France. See it
It turned out to be a 1,600-year-old fabric fragment woven with gold threads. A team of archaeologists spent several months of 2020 excavating a massive ancient burial ground in Autun. The site ...
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Appraisal: Auguste Falisse Violin & French Bow, ca. 1917
Funding for ANTIQUES ROADSHOW is provided by Ancestry ... all violins have a spruce belly and a back of maple. The bow is a French bow made out of Pernambuco wood, which only grows in Brazil.
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The £800 Chinese vase that sold for £53MILLION: How family heirloom dismissed by BBC antiques expert as a 'clever reproduction' fetched huge sum at auction after sitting in ...
A prized Chinese vase dismissed by a BBC antiques expert as merely a 'clever ... during the infamous raids by the British and the French in 1860. After finally emerging for sale in 2010, it ...
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Rare vase ‘rejected’ by experts on BBC antiques series sells for £53,000,000
But none of this rich history was discovered when it made an appearance on the 1970s BBC antique series ... dynasty vase was looted by British and French soldiers from the Summer Palace in ...
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French Navy Atlantique 2s Make Rare Visit to Indonesia as Charles de Gaulle CSG Participates in Host of Indo-Pacific Exercises
Two French Navy’s (Marine Nationale) Breguet Atlantique 2 (ATL2) Maritime Patrol Aircraft (MPA) arrived in Indonesia on Jan. 11, 2025, along with an A400M of the French Air and Space Force ...
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Antiques Roadshow rare vase that was 'rejected' by experts sells for £53 million
A vase that was once rejected by experts on an early version of Antiques Roadshow has sold ... during the Second Opium War when British and French troops ransacked the imperial residence of ...
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Vase rejected and found in dusty attic sold for £53million on BBC antique show
A vase dismissed by a BBC antiques expert ended up selling for ... been plundered from a Peking imperial palace by British and French soldiers during the Second Opium War when British troops ...
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Vase dismissed and left in attic for 40 years sells for record-breaking figure on BBC antique show
A vase initially dismissed by a BBC antiques expert as a "very clever reproduction ... looted from a Peking imperial palace by British and French soldiers during the Second Opium War, was up ...
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French Atlantique 2 Maritime Patrol Aircraft Locked by Russian S-400, Says Minister of Armed Forces
A French Navy’s Atlantique 2 Maritime Patrol Aircraft (MPA) was locked by a Russian S-400 air defense system while flying over international waters of the Baltic Sea in the night between Jan. 15 ...
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King Carl Gustaf of Sweden breaks his silence after a royal guard is impaled with his own bayonet at Stockholm palace
Catastrophe was only narrowly avoided when a soldier slipped on the ice outside Stockholm Palace, impaling himself through the head with his own bayonet. The soldier, who has not yet been named, was ...
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Antiques Roadshow £80 garage find sells for millions more than expert thought
A bronze statue valued on Antiques Roadshow went on to make millions more than predicted. Bought for $100 – around £80 – in a Missouri garage sale 20 years ago, a Buddhist ornament of a deity ...