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And this is news - Police arrest man loading a statue into a truck and end up discovering the Tomb of Caligula (one of my favorite Roman Emperors).
Read more here: http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2011/jan/17/caligula-tomb-found-police-statue
Mind you, it's breaking news and the verdict isn't yet certain...
CBS casts some doubt: http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-503543_162-20028786-503543.html
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A 312 year old map of Canada, discovered sitting next to a water heater in the attic of a Scottish Estate, fetches $380, 000 at auction. Now if there are maps of Canada in Scotland, perhaps there's one a little closer to home?
Links: Calgary Herald & Toronto Sun
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Like many of the stories in this section, the surprise isn't in the finding of the treasure, it's in the bookseller "Doing the right thing" and returning the jewelry to it's "rightful" owner.
Think, then, of how often this occurs (and everyone knows the hollowed out book trick); and yet how seldom we hear about it. This is probably up there with the "reported" treasures found by builders when doing renovations on homes (practically nonexistent, yet rest assured there's a large underground traffic in antiquities and art recovered from properties where the owner is never made aware of it's existence).
Link: http://www.odt.co.nz/news/dunedin/143459/jewellery-stash-first-secondhand-book-seller
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An electrician approaches the Picasso estate to validate a number of Picasso's artworks, given to him, he said, when he worked for Picasso during the 1970's. The collection is already appraised at 80 million dollars, many of the works are completely unknown.
The family argues theft, that there's no way that Picasso would have given these paintings to an electrician. SO begins what will probably be a long and drawn out legal battle, but the point of it is there's a eighty million dollar cache of art that was previously unknown. Which raises the question, how many other hidden and unknown caches of art are out there?
Read more here: http://www.nytimes.com