Sentence examples for precious artefact from inspiring English sources

It is kept behind glass, like the precious artefact it is.

The tall writer took the precious artefact from the nervous boy's hands and thanked him.

When something is so beautifully made, it should be treasured and carefully curated like a precious artefact, not slung to the back of a cupboard to gather dust.

Maybe I'd have forgotten the book, had it not become a precious artefact of serendipity-in-friendship, one we enjoy dusting off every few years, just to relive the pleasure of being a couple of suggestible 20-year-olds in the throes of a mild hysteria.

But, instead of theft and murder, her role is to return precious artefacts to their rightful owners.

This includes the bones of those who died in labour camps, reproduced in porcelain, and various comments on literal old and new values, with precious artefacts, be they temple remains or Neolithic pottery, reconfigured as contemporary art.

Others, such as Snyder, counter that this would serve only to bury precious artefacts in the hands of private collectors, not evaluated by experts and not appreciated by the public.

The Science Museum is inviting visitors to interact with 80 of its most precious artefacts with a new iPad app that allows users to study, rotate and operate objects hand-picked by the museum's curators.

Twenty of these precious artefacts are now on view in New York as part of a travelling exhibition, "Dead Sea Scrolls: Life and Faith in Biblical Times", now on at Discovery Times Square.

Police investigating a team of jewel and rhino horn thieves dubbed the "Rathkeale Rovers" have charged 13 men over a string of museum raids across the country that netted millions of pounds' worth of precious artefacts.

And in August, the group beheaded the 82-year-old, world-renowned antiques scholar Khaled al-Assad, hanging his body in the main square of the ancient city of Palmyra, after he refused to reveal where precious artefacts had been stored for safekeeping.