Greek, Roman, Egyptian & Other Antiquities

Richard Beale, the owner and managing director of London coin auction house Roma Numismatics, has been arrested in New York in connection with the sale of a record-breaking classical coin.

This 13 x 13in (33 x 33cm) brick is from the walls of Babylon and dates from 604-562BC.

A huge collection of cameos bought by the Rijksmuseum van Oudheden (National Museum of Antiquities) will now go on display at the museum in Leiden.

To one side of this gold aureus struck in Rome in 180-83 is a sensually draped portrait of the goddess Venus.

A spectacular Roman gold medallion took a record price at the latest New York International Numismatic Convention (NYINC).

A bust of Roman emperor Antoninus Pius sold for more than ten-times its low estimate at a Sotheby's sale

Twenty-seven looted artefacts seized from New York’s Metropolitan Museum of Art have been returned to Italy and Egypt as part of longrunning investigations by the Manhattan District Attorney’s Antiquities Trafficking Unit.

Alexander the Great’s conquest of the Persian Achaemenid empire delivered into his hands a vast wealth.

Different way of operating involves exhibitions, some non-commercial, in a variety of premises.

On November 9-10 Sworders will conduct an auction of objects from the collection of pioneering dealer Jan Ellen Finch (1952-2021) of Finch & Co.

This Egyptian Old Kingdom statue once owned by George III will be offered at Christie’s during its Classic Week sales in July.

Cats were represented in the social and religious practices of ancient Egypt for several millennia.

An Anglo-Saxon gold shilling or thrymsa dating from 650- 670AD took £15,000 at Dix Noonan Webb in Mayfair.

Egyptian antiquities and Rolex are a hit in first sale of the year held at Surrey golf club

A three-quarters-length bust of a bare-chested Antinous, the favourite of Hadrian, appears on this medallic coin minted in Mantinea, Arcadia, c.134AD.