In the beginning, Sites also sent the Smithsonian's objects overseas, and arranged to bring foreign treasures here: museumgoers may regard "The Treasures of Tutankhamen," at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in the late 1970's, as the first modern museum blockbuster, but as Ms. Cohn likes to point out, "Sites circulated many of the objects that were in the King Tut show years earlier".
The find has helped to improve the relationship between metal detectorists and archaeologists, and influenced a change in English law regarding finds of treasure.
The tapes surfaced in 1988 and were regarded as treasured relics despite their poorly recorded and distorted sound.
Even his collection — containing pieces now regarded as treasures by the museums, including the Metropolitan in New York and the Victoria and Albert in London, that were fortunate enough to acquire them — was dismissed as "baubles" and "trinkets".
MOSCOW — While it might seem risky to keep dozens of cats near some of the world's most precious pieces of art, cats are regarded as treasured guardians of the State Hermitage Museum in St .Petersburg, Russia, patrolling the basement for mice and rats and treated like furry royalty by doting staff members.
Onder Celik is a doctoral candidate in the Department of Anthropology; his dissertation, Subterranean Dreams: Hunting for Armenian Treasures in the Post-Genocide Landscape, explores the popular practices regarding the search for treasures that were supposedly buried by victims of the Armenian genocide in Turkey's Kurdistan.
Regarding books as visual treasures, the club's library is an awesome repository of the history of printing and collecting in the Western world.
By the time he died in 1964, Hoover was regarded a national treasure.
Regarded as a treasure of the Royal Academy of Arts in London, where Turner was a distinguished pupil, a teacher and a generous benefactor, the mask has not been seen since the mid-1980's, the BBC reported.
Since it is now easy to accumulate all of the books written by an author in first edition – to tick them off, as unimaginative collectors do – you have to add some criterion to regard them as treasure.
When his lover Sibell Grosvenor decided to marry one of his friends, Curzon's parting exclamation of anguish was "The taking out of a man's life of that which he has grown to regard as a treasure and core of his being is not accomplished without a pang".
