A Blue-and-White Dragon Vase Just Sold for $7.5 Million:More Than 4,000 Times Its $1,900 Estimate
Experts valued it at just €2,000. But the seemingly run-of-the-mill vase has just sold at auction in France for nearly €7.7 million (about $7.5 million), with a bidding frenzy propelling it to nearly 4,000 times its original estimate. Clearly, someone has
Neolithic Pottery Suggests That Scotland’s Helpless Love of Porridge Has Endured for Thousands of Years
A study led by the University of Bristol recently found that Neolithic pottery has preserved clues about humanity’s earliest relationships with grains—dating back thousands of years earlier than previously proven. A paper by Dr. Simon Hammann, Dr. Lucy Cramp, and eight