A master of guises who has pulled off seemingly petty crimes is hibernating in Varanasi, until he’s summoned for an art heist. Vagh Pratap Singh, also referred to as Captain, is commissioned to find ...

Precious jewels from the Napoleon era were stolen from the renowned Louvre Museum in Paris this morning. Culture Minister Rachida Dati, who first reported the heist, said there was no injury and that ...

A still life of poppies which has been hidden away in storage for 30 years at the Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art in Hartford, Connecticut has been authenticated, we can announce. Specialists at the ...

Vish Dhamija believes that at some point in life, everyone should decide what they really want. “Writing drives me,” says Vish, a digital marketer, who went on to become one of the popular Indian ...

Egyptian prosecutors are questioning officials at a Cairo museum after thieves stole a Van Gogh painting worth an estimated $55 million, the country’s state-run Middle East News Agency reported.

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CASTROVILLE — History runs deep in the Little Alsace of Texas, right down to the poppies blooming around quaint 19th-century cottages and the 17th-century fachwerk house that serves as the visitors ...

Egyptian antiquities officials on Sunday said a Pharaonic painting has disappeared from the famed Saqqara necropolis just ...