Each year, starting from Dec. 16 until Christmas Eve, thousands of people in the United States and Central America participate in “Las Posadas,” a centuries-old tradition that retells the story of Mary and Joseph’s travels from Nazareth to Bethlehem, seeking some sort
The unassuming small square-shaped pots were found by TV antiques expert Charles Hanson at an event in Northamptonshire. Charles – a familiar face on Bargain Hunt and Celebrity Antiques Road Trip – attended the party at Jeyes of Earls Barton where guests
Torrential rains in Sierra Leone’s capital felled the centuries-old Cotton Tree, a national treasure whose loss has left “a gap” in people’s hearts, the country’s President Julius Maada Bio said Thursday. “There is no stronger symbol of our national story than the
Camilla will instead wear Queen Mary’s crown, which has been recrafted especially for her, rather than having a new crown commissioned, in another nod to Charles’s environmental efforts. However, according to Private Eye the ivory sceptre, which has been used by every
Centuries-old cultural artifacts that had been illegally smuggled out from Cambodia were welcomed home Friday at a celebration led by Prime Minister Hun Sen, who offered thanks for their return and appealed for further efforts to retrieve such stolen treasures. Many, if
A spectacular collection of centuries-old Cambodian jewelry has been returned to the Southeast Asian country, the latest treasures to be retrieved from the estate of well-known antiquities collector and dealer Douglas Latchford, who was accused of buying and selling looted artifacts. Cambodia’s