Through history luxury and power

Baron von Pfetten

Earlier in the summer, antiquity sales highlighted the many depictions of the classical world’s most popular hero, including a version with Byronic hair, as well as the extraordinary sculpting and casting progress made by ancient Greece

A new exhibition examines the significance and impact of England’s northerly Viking invasion

Marie Antoinette’s passion for furniture and genius for bagatelles, however evanescent their purpose, filled the French royal palaces with beauty and charm, as Matthew Dennison reveals

Carthage burned for six days. After three long years of siege, in the spring of 146 BC Roman soldiers finally broke through the city’s defences and began to slaughter the population. But still the Car

In short, yes: the Victorians did indeed think eating mummified remains pilfered from ancient Egyptian tombs was a good idea, although they did not come up with the idea themselves. The morbid practic