The theft of $178 million of jewels from a museum in Dresden was big news in 2019, and yesterday, authorities said they’d recovered a lot of it after talks with the 6 Germans accused of taking the culturally important bling. Two of the suspects have already been convicted of taking a 100kg gold coin from a museum in Berlin. That couldn’t have been easy to pull off…

Sotheby’s in New York has sold a Tyrannosaurus rex skull for more than $9 million. It was the first of its kind to hit a public auction, and experts say it could be the start of a new high-end collectables trend for fossils. The skull’s name is Maximus, in case you’re wondering…

It’s the season for giving, so in that spirit, we thank the team behind the restoration of the Nativity by Piero Della Francesca. One arty type says their efforts resemble those that gave life to the ‘Monkey Christ’, with one of the shepherds looking like he’s “trying to remember where he parked the donkey”. Everyone’s a critic…