The chalice was purchased – for five pounds and five shillings – by the Victorian soldier and archaeologist Augustus Pitt Rivers, who founded the Oxford museum bearing his name in 1884.

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One of the oldest artefacts on display, it is on loan from the Pitt Rivers Museum in Oxford. In this form of divination, a question was inscribed on the bone — in this case, an ox scapula ...

NEW YORK (PIX11) – To some, it’s the best museum in New York City. The Frick Collection just reopened after a $220 million, five year renovation. Inside one of the grandest mansions on Fifth ...

The Hall of Botany at the Carnegie Museum of Natural History in Pittsburgh features dioramas of natural plant ... One wall features framed herbarium collection specimens of knotweed, commonly known as ...

Thursday’s event, which will be emceed by Pittsburgh Pirates play-by-play announcer Greg Brown, is set to feature Steve Blass and other former Pirates players sharing memories of Clemente and Three ...

This axe pistol is undoubtedly an interesting weapon. Source: Pitt Rivers Museum Combination weapons, as you are about to find out, come in all shapes and sizes, but one of the most interesting is ...

The Norton Museum of Art is hosting Artists' Jewelry: From Cubism to Pop, the Diane Venet Collection, a selection of over 150 pieces of jewelry made by some of the most significant artists of the ...

The Fort Pitt Museum will welcome several authors and historians through October to discuss 18th century American history topics and themes as part of the museum’s new “Speaker Saturday” series. From ...

The Pittsburgh Brewers Guild has 50 member breweries, and this week is when they celebrate Three Rivers Beer Week. It’s not a single festival, but rather a collection of nearly 30 beer specials ...

And some of those legends live today in a 117,000-square-foot, privately owned, flawless, showroom-type museum known as The Brothers Collection, a heavily guarded secret that’s housed in a ...