Trove includes 250 painted sarcophagi with well-preserved mummies inside, as well as 150 bronze statues of ancient deities and bronze vessels used in rituals of Isis
Greece's chief rabbi says artifacts on display at local Jewish museum, including inscription from as early as 4th century, show Jews are 'an integral part of Greek identity'
Funeral scrolls, manuscripts, other historic records traced to Jewish communities in Romania, Hungary, Ukraine and Slovakia will be auctioned off in New York City
Washington anesthesiologist and expert knitter Lea Stern 'reverse engineers' pattern of fragile artifact in hidden children collection at US Holocaust Memorial Museum
Days before auction, unique religious artifact from Krumbach DP Camp pulled from sale, after original owner's son claims Brooklyn's Living Torah Museum has no right to sell it
Curator says communal ledgers that will be digitized are 'some of the most significant documents for understanding early modern Jewish European history'
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