Greek, Roman, Egyptian & Other Antiquities

Among the sales at 'An Eye into the Ancient Past', the collaborative exhibition from Oliver Forge and Brendan Lynch and Claire Brown Art, was this attic black-figure amphora, dated to 500BC.

A fragmentary shabti with a cartouche for the Egyptian pharaoh Akhenaten proved a highlight of Bonhams’ latest Antiquities sale.

A Brutus Eid Mar-type silver denarius, struck shortly after the murder of Julius Caesar, has become the most expensive numismatic object ever sold at auction in Scandinavia.

Long records of ownership have become one of the crucial factors to get a good result in this market

Combining scholarly, decorative and evocative appeal, cameos and intaglios are a highly collectable area of the antiquities market.

Colourful collections star at joint exhibitions held by Claire Brown Art with Oliver Forge and Brendan Lynch

A Panticapaeum gold stater, struck in present day Crimea c.350-300BC, has regained the rank of the world’s most expensive classical coin.

On May 25 Hindman holds its latest sale of Antiquities and Ancient Art in Chicago.

Investigation by saleroom specialist pays off as Castle Howard connection helps a chandelier to impress

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.