"Sotheby's has withdrawn a pair of “antique” commodes from auction in New York this week because evidence suggests they are fake... more

"I was 1,083 pages into Robert Musil’s majestic novel “The Man Without Qualities” when my wife burst into the living room and said that... more

"An American tank that formed part of the 1944 D-Day invasion force was discovered buried under a street in northern France... more

"Sixteen years ago, a heavy package addressed to the nonexistent "Smithsonian Inst. Curator, MezoAmerican Museum, Washington, D.C." was delivered to the National Museum of American History. It was accompanied by an unsigned letter stating: "This Aztec crystal skull, purported to be part of the Porfirio Díaz collection, was purchased in Mexico in 1960... more

"The pair, known as “knocker boys”, cold-called their victims and pressured them into letting them stroll round their homes to look at valuable paintings, jewellery and furniture... more

"Ask a group of bibliophiles to identify the rarest of all rare books, and a majority probably would cite the Gutenberg Bible of 1456, the first book ever printed... more

"The watercolour, just three inches by one and a quarter inches, was painted on ivory by George Engleheart in 1798 and still has several locks of hair - from whom no one knows - in the back panel... more