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New Delhi’s Ministry of Culture said the auction of the Piprahwa gems in Hong Kong, scheduled for Wednesday, “violates Indian ...
A Hong Kong Wednesday Sotheby's auction of the Piprahwa gems linked to the Buddha was postponed Tuesday after India ...
Art historian Naman Ahuja says the Piprahwa gems are "the cultural property of the world." But soon they'll be the legal ...
Jewels linked to the physical remains of the Buddha are set to be sold at auction, sparking a threat of legal action from ...
HONG KONG: Auction house Sotheby’s said on Wednesday that it had postponed the auction of a collection of hundreds of jewels ...
As gemstones found by a British landowner in colonial India head to Sotheby's, academics say it furthers "colonial legacies ...
Sotheby's in Hong Kong postponed an auction of gems with ties to early Buddhism on Wednesday after opposition from India, ...
Sale by family of 19th century British engineer of ‘duplicates’ of sacred relics he found in India called illegal by Indian ...
Sotheby's, one of the largest brokers of fine art and historic artefacts, has put the auction of gems relics linked to the ...
government calls relics 'inalienable religious and cultural heritage' and threatens legal action against auction house.
Indian gems linked to the Buddha’s mortal remains found in Piprahwa, in present-day Uttar Pradesh, in the 1890s, are going ...