"At the Museum of Fakes, what's not real is still art... more

"Until recently, the Chinese paid little attention to the treasures buried beneath their territorial waters. There were more than enough on land. But the 1986 Christie's auction of Ming porcelain salvaged by the buccaneering British treasure hunter Michael Hatcher, which raised £10m, changed that... more

"David H. Wilson, an antiques restorer in New Jersey who consults for Christie’s, offered these tips for spotting fakes... more

"One hundred years on, Stubblefield is finally being recognised as the inventor of the mobile phone. Just 30 years after the first proper long-distance phone network was set up, the Kentucky melon farmer was awarded the patent for his "wireless telephone".... more

"The letter was written to philosopher Eric Gutkind in January 1954, a year before Einstein's death. In it, the Einstein said that "the word God is for me nothing more than the expression and product of human weaknesses, the Bible a collection of honorable but still primitive legends which are nevertheless pretty childish."... more

"Mr. Smith said he was panicked at the thought that two very expensive mahogany chests of drawers he acquired for a California financier in September — described on the invoice as a fine pair of English commodes, circa 1830 — might not be worth anything close to what he had paid... more

"Meyer found himself locked in an office in Washington, with a desk, a pile of dictionaries and lexicons, and one of the most sought-after religious texts in recent history, the Gospel of Judas. For a week he worked almost nonstop on the 26-page text, translating the Coptic, an ancient Egyptian language written with Greek letters, into English. As he translated, a startling portrait of Judas Iscariot emerged... more