When Bulls Fly Ariane Thomas, head of Near Eastern antiquities at Paris’s Louvre, likes the story of the flying bulls, a set of 28-ton Assyrian sculptures from around 713 B.C. depicting human-headed, ...
On August 21st, 1911, someone stole the most famous painting in the world from the Louvre. According to author Seymour Reit, "Someone walked into the Salon Carré, lifted it off the wall and went ...