While slaves in the ancient Roman city of Pompeii were considered no more than "speaking tools", some received better food ...

These silver denarii, discovered in Chilfrome in 2021 by metal detecting enthusiast Trenton Oliver, date from 141 BC to 46 AD. They sold for two and a half times their pre-sale estimate. The coins ...

As hopes grow for a possible end to the longest U.S. government shutdown on record, the Treasury Department has three auctions totaling $125 billion this week, and some of them could set the tone for ...

The Roman Empire conjures up images of military power, gladiatorial contests, and feats of engineering, but to the men who ruled, life was complicated and fraught with risk. Julius Caesar, whose power ...

Sotheby’s opened its new headquarters on Madison Avenue in the Marcel Breuer building, formerly home to the Whitney Museum of American Art, earlier this month. (photo by Alexi Rosenfeld via Getty ...

A sale of artifacts from Holocaust victims scheduled for today has been canceled. Yesterday afternoon, Neuss-based Felzmann auction house removed all information ...

Also available on the Internet to registered users. "Soul by Soul tells the story of slavery in antebellum America by moving away from the cotton plantations to the heart of the domestic slave trade.

After two years of muted results, New York’s leading auction houses expect to pull in between $1.7bn and $2.3bn during their marquee November sales. A result near or above the high end of that range ...

Real estate agents who put misleading price estimates on property listings in New South Wales could be slapped with with fines of up to $110,000. The loathed practice is already illegal. But the NSW ...

Adrien Meyer sells the top lot of The Collection of Robert F. and Patricia G Ross Weis, Mark Rothko’s No. 31 (Yellow Stripe) for $62,160,000. Christie's All eyes are on New York—with small interludes ...

Wednesday afternoon's $42 billion sale of 10-year Treasury notes produced mixed results just two days after a 3-year auction saw solid demand. Indirect bidders took 67%, which was below average, said ...