From Stone Tablets To Digital Justice: The Evolution of Laws
Reviewing the role of laws in shaping society across centuries The human society has always been guided by laws. This December, it has another opportunity to gaze into the past and sigh at how far it has come. On the 18th of December, Sotheby’s will place one of the most influential texts in history on […]
Oldest Known Ten Commandments Tablet Heads to Auction
This December, Sotheby’s will auction one of the most widely known and influential texts in history: the oldest inscribed stone tablet of the Ten Commandments. Dating to the late Roman-Byzantine era, this remarkable artifact is approximately 1,500 years old and is the only complete tablet of the Ten Commandments still extant from this early era. […]
A Cache of Chinese Silverware, Hidden in an Attic for 80 Years, Heads to Auction
The consignor had no clue about the collection’s existence until earlier this year. A large collection of late 19th- and early 20th-century Chinese silverware is heading to auction at Kinghams Auctioneers in the Cotswolds, England, after it was rediscovered in a family attic where it had been sitting for 80 years. The collection of around […]