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The recent auction of a Martian meteorite -- for a record-grabbing $5.3 million at Sotheby's New York -- has sparked questions over its provenance and renewed debate over who gets to claim rocks fallen from the heavens.

A 25-kilo rock from Mars sold for over $5 million (€4.3 million) at Sotheby’s in New York last month. But Niger, where the meteorite was found, has launched an investigation into whether it was illegally smuggled out of the country.

Culture ministry had threatened legal action over planned auction of Piprahwa precious stones

The artwork had previously been offered for sale at Sotheby’s in the 1990s

The art dealer who purchased the mixed media piece discovered it had been offered for sale at Sotheby’s in the 1990s fully attributed to Dali.

Unusual illustration, to be sold by Cheffins, was part of surrealist artist’s abandoned Arabian Nights project

A juvenile dinosaur fossil, Ceratosaurus nasicornis, has sold at Sotheby’s New York for US$30.5 million (£22.7 million). It is part of a recent resurgence of art-market interest in fossils and natural history – palaeontology and geology especially. Indeed, this latest dinosaur sale was part of an auction specifically dedicated to…

Trump claimed that he “never wrote a picture in my life,” yet a history of his sketches sold in auctions suggests otherwise

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