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In 1990, two thieves made off with a $500 million cache of art by Rembrandt, Vermeer, Degas and more. Three decades later, the works remain missing
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The unknown criminals painted the 1,000-year-old petroglyphs in bright colors and scratched their surfaces beyond recognition
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The free online experience allows users to toggle between views of the ancient Lebanese city today and as it appeared in 215 A.D.
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The acclaimed British artist's painting of Czech musician Antonín Kammel may be worth upward of $1.3 million
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The 17th-century portrait of Lucretia is set to go on view at the Getty Museum in Los Angeles
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Tharun Sekar, a luthier based in southern India, has painstakingly recreated the long-lost yazh
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A trove of letters and photographs associated with the band's time in Germany is set to go up for auction next month
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Researchers modeled the acoustics of Linlithgow Palace in Scotland to transport listeners back to a 1512 performance
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An 800-year-old trash dump in Oxford reveals adherence to Jewish dietary codes
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Spanish authorities halted the sale of the three works, which were falsely attributed to El Greco, Modigliani and Goya
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A new show at the Pallant House Gallery in England features pint-sized works by Damien Hirst, Rachel Whiteread and more
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UCLA's database features hundreds of thousands of entries detailing traditional healing practices
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A new show at the Metropolitan Museum of Art features 100 of the American artist's paintings, drawings and watercolors
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A new digital database features 480,000 works from the Paris museum's holdings
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Local farmers accidentally destroyed 60 percent of the shrine complex that houses the ancient Cupisnique painting
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New 3-D reconstruction visualizes what KV55, a mummy long thought to be the ancient Egyptian ruler, may have looked like
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In honor of her 87th birthday, the speaker and activist is (digitally) welcoming visitors into her home
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A new triennial at El Museo del Barrio features a wide range of works by 42 artists and collectives
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Dhaka muslin was immensely popular for millennia, but the secrets of its creation faded from memory by the early 20th century
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The missives reveal that the Impressionist artist's family paid for his younger sibling's medical care by selling 17 of his paintings
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