Interestingly, this is just a little bit earlier than the date for the fall of the Minoan civilization. Historians generally place this latter event in the mid-fifteenth century BC. It was at that ...

The Minoan and Mycenaean civilizations flourished ... This manifested in filling entire surfaces with intricate details or patterns. Vases, for the most part, were thus completely covered with ...

On the left, a Mycenaean fresco of two women on a chariot and, on the right, a Minoan fresco of a woman. Credit: Public Domain / Heraklion Archaeological Museum / CC BY-SA 4.0 / Wikimedia Commons The ...

University of Science and Technology of China has made a fascinating development in robotics, with the octopus-inspired robotic arm led by Nikolaos Freris. It combines the dexterity of a human ...

A HUGE mistake saw a vase valued at hundreds of pounds go on to sell for a whopping £53million. Airing in the 1960s and 1970s, BBC programme Going for a Song was somewhat of a precursor to the ...

A prized Chinese vase dismissed by a BBC antiques expert as merely a 'clever reproduction' went on to sell for £53million after sitting in a loft for four decades. The fate of the Qianlong ...

The vase was woefully undervalued on the BBC decades prior, then sold for millions (Picture: BBC/PA) An incredibly valuable vase claimed to be worth just hundreds of pounds on a BBC show then sold ...

A vase initially dismissed by a BBC antiques expert as a clever fake fetched an eye-watering £53million after languishing in an attic for four decades. The BBC's 1970s antiques game show 'Going ...

An unassuming vase, deemed a mere imitation by an antiques expert and neglected in an attic for 40 years, has astonishingly sold for £53million at auction. The BBC's nostalgia-tinged '70s show ...

A vase initially dismissed by a BBC antiques expert as a "very clever reproduction" fetched an eye-watering £53million after languishing in an attic for four decades. Back in the 1970s ...