Sentence examples for precious artefacts from inspiring English sources

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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

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.

The islanders' precious historical artefacts and records, of the Bounty and of their progress to self-government, have been seized from their parliament and locked away.