Still, Edie might be struck by the wine's wild grapes, grown since antiquity in Messina, and by my $150,000 Steinway & Sons Model D music system, which didn't fall off a truck.
Europe's rediscovery of the classical world during the Renaissance was intimately connected with a growing interest in antiquities and classical manuscripts.
IN 1752 Camillo Paderni, an artist who had been put in charge of the growing pile of antiquities being dug up at Herculaneum, a seaside town near Naples, wrote to a certain Dr Mead, who then wrote to the Royal Society in London reporting that "there were found many volumes of papyrus but turned to a sort of charcoal, and so brittle, that being touched, it fell to ashes.
The measures were proposed to curb the growing trade in illicit antiquities that is believed to have absorbed thousands of objects looted from museums and archaeological sites after the first Persian Gulf war in 1991.
Today, Zahi Hawass threatened to resign from his post as Egypt's minister of antiquities amid growing reports of looting at the country's myriad ancient sites.
From the time of the 14th-century poet Petrarch, Padua had experienced a rapidly growing revival of interest in antiquity, and many eminent humanists and Latin scholars had resided there.
Today a growing body of scientific literature confirms that antiquity was onto something.
Kiwifruit vines were growing in the wild in western China since antiquity and the fruit was collected occasionally for human consumption.
His approach has inspired an impressive and growing cohort of younger scholars, working on everything from classical antiquity to contemporary capitalism.
Collecting ancient coins is one of the few ways that the average person can own actual objects from antiquity, and this point was not lost on the growing collector base.
