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A manuscript of the Holy Quran, commissioned in 1860 by Münire Sultan, daughter of Sultan Abdülmecid I, was auctioned for €114,300 at the "Islamic World and Indian Arts" event held yesterday at Sotheby's Auction House in London, the capital…

A wristwatch found in the remains of the atomic bomb dropped on Hiroshima, Japan, on August 6, 1945, was sold at an auction organized by a US-based auction house. The melted watch showing 08.15, the moment the historical disaster, was sold…

A 3.9-meter-long Tyrannosaurus-Rex dinosaur skeleton named "Trinity" is set to be auctioned in Zurich, Switzerland on April 18, with an estimated selling price between 5 and 8 million Swiss francs. The skeleton consists of bones from three…

An auction where Twitter sold office furniture has just ended. The highest-selling item was a blue bird statue, the platform's logo, which sold for $100,000. Among the 631 items, a decorative flower pot in the shape of the "@" symbol…

Social networking site Twitter, which came to the fore with financial crisis allegations after it was bought by billionaire businessman Elon Musk, put up office items, such as a big bird statue that is the logo of the company, for sale…

Zephyr, a Jurassic-era Iguanodon dinosaur fossil, will be auctioned off on October 20, at the Drouot Hotel in Paris. The fossil is expected to fetch between 400,000 and 500,000 Euros. During a press presentation, the full skeleton of the…