Hand holding a pair of scales in a detail of Gothic painting with gold ground
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Edvard Munch painted “Summer Night on the Beach” in 1902 at Åsgårdstrand
Edvard Munch's painting Summer Night on the Beach, executed in 1902, is a profound immersion in the atmosphere of Scandinavian melancholy. The canvas shows a deserted shore at Åsgårdstrand, the place where the artist spent his summer months and found inspiration for his most emotional works. Instead of
Archaeologists find a signet ring depicting the lighthouse in Alexandria harbour
Underwater archaeologists have raised from the bed of the Eastern Harbour of Alexandria a bronze signet ring bearing an image of the Lighthouse of Alexandria. It was found at the site of the sunken island of Antirhodos. The owner of the ring would press the image into wax or soft
British author finds her autism in “Amélie” as the post's author voices doubts
I have been reading how a young British authoress recognised herself in the heroine of the film "Amélie". She was, so we are told, diagnosed with "autism" in her early twenties, although her parents had suspected it since childhood, because she had no friends and could
Mesolithic hunter-gatherer camp found in Tina Jama cave near Trieste
An unfinished antler axe, probably of the Mesolithic, which may have been used for straightening arrows. Archaeologists have explored the Tina Jama cave on the limestone Karst plateau above the northern coast of the Adriatic Sea, not far from Trieste, and have uncovered a Mesolithic hunter-gatherer camp directly beneath