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I hope they excavated it properly, rather than just pulling it free.....
Unfinished sketches by the famed French artist Paul Cezanne have been found hidden on the backs of two of his watercolors.
The Pennsylvanian-based Barnes Foundation museum said the sketches, one graphite and one watercolor, likely have not been seen since the early 20th century.
A wedding ring lost by a Dorset lifeboatman on an emergency call six years ago has been found at low tide.
A baby who was stolen from her sleeping mother's arms in hospital three days after she was born has been reunited with her real family 17 years later through an astonishing coincidence.
The Pompidou Centre in Paris hopes to put a lost Picasso masterpiece back on public display by the end of May – after a US attorney revealed it had been found in New York.
http://www.bbc.com/news/magazine-31854167A man is being reunited with his wallet, 65 years after he dropped it down the back of an medieval bookcase at Lambeth Palace, writes Newsnight's James Clayton.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2015/...tic_n_7171458.html?ncid=fcbklnkushpmg00000022Mike Lopez told NBC affiliate WFLA that his sister was cleaning out their grandparents' attic when she found a wooden box with a wedding photo of their great-grandparents, a Tampa-area map, some coins and what appears to be a human hand all arranged inside.
Full story here, http://rt.com/uk/260541-shakespeare-portrait-original-discovered/A historic botany book dating back to the 16th century showcases what may be the only known portrait of William Shakespeare drawn while he was alive, an academic expert says
Similar story already posted on the - er - Shakespeare thread!
Have you got any links please? ... sounds good ..Reports today say the long-lost second reel of Laurel and Hardy's classic short The Battle of the Century has been found! Please don't let this be a hoax, that pie fight's reputation has grown dramatically (or comedically) down the decades so let's hope it's as funny as they said back in the 1920s.