Ali Aboutaam

In an amazing synthesis of the extraordinarily old with the most up-to-the-minute new, Hicham and Ali Aboutaam of Phoenix Ancient Art launched their landmark web site, E-tiquities. Click your way over to E-tiquities and get a gander of the most beautiful objects which have been cherished and preserved for thousands of years until our day. You are more than welcome to just browse, since one of the goals of this unique web-site is to open up the world of ancient art to a broader audience, to educate them about art from the deep past, and to hopefully interest them to belong to this special club of people who, more than owning the precious objects, become guardians of them for the future.

Even computer geeks might want to participate in the chain of ownership through the millennia, acknowledging that not everything is measured in nanoseconds, or gets obsolete in 5 years time.

The latest effort from  Hicham and Ali  Aboutaam,brothers and co-owners of Phoenix Ancient Art, to make the world of collecting antiquities accessible to the widest possible range of people is their flagship web-site e-tiquities.

Opened for business as of May 1st, 2009, e-tiquities offers antiquities for sale or bidding some of the most beautiful, rare and historical artifacts in the most convenient way possible. From the comfort of your computer you can gaze at and admire some of the world’s most magnificent examples of art from as long ago as Neolithic times, around the 6th millennium B.C.E. and from as wide an area as the Mediterranean Basin spanning in the west from Spain and Portugal to the Indus Valley where modern Pakistan is now, in the east.

Prices range from $500 and can go as high as $25,000. Some of the ancient cultures represented by the objects in the virtual gallery are Greek, Roman, Byzantium, Islamic, and a large selection of others.