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antiquities

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/ ænˈtɪkwɪtɪz /

plural noun

  1. remains or relics, such as statues, buildings, or coins, that date from ancient times

"Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged" 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

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He said he had told them of his suspicions that he - and other antiquities dealers he knew - had unintentionally bought items online that actually came from their collection.

From BBC • Apr. 28, 2026

Dr Ittai Gradel, the academic turned antiquities dealer who exposed the theft of many hundreds of artefacts from the British Museum, has died of cancer, aged 61.

From BBC • Apr. 28, 2026

It marked the latest victory in Turkey's increasingly assertive push to recover antiquities illegally taken abroad -- a campaign supported by a newly-developed AI tool for identifying cultural assets of Turkish origin.

From Barron's • Mar. 20, 2026

Visitors to the Getty Villa in Los Angeles—the oceanside site of the J. Paul Getty Museum’s antiquities collection—have good reason to curse Theodosius as they gaze upon the sublime portrait of Isidora, painted around A.D.

From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 20, 2026

Paupardin ran to the person unfortunate enough to now be in charge—the curator of Egyptian antiquities, a man named Georges Bénédite.

From "The Mona Lisa Vanishes" by Nicholas Day

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