Besides the design of the pyramid, with its nine-tiered sides and four staircases facing the cardinal points, it is interesting that beneath the building, at a depth of some 25 metres, lies a karst lake, which is thought capable of threatening the structu

Besides the design of the pyramid, with its nine-tiered sides and four staircases facing the cardinal points, it is interesting that beneath the building, at a depth of some 25 metres, lies a karst lake, which is thought capable of threatening the structure's survival in the future, but which in the past was one of the reasons the Maya built their temple on this very spot. Such is the irony

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September digest: archaeological finds, exhibitions, museums, theatre and the Church

In the finale of the Strugatskys' Roadside Picnic, the Golden Ball is told: "Happiness for everybody, free, and let nobody go away unsatisfied!" I do not promise to offend nobody, but the digest really does come free of charge. So, here is the main business of the

Frederic Leighton

Frederic Leighton. “Daedalus and Icarus”, 1869 Daedalus warns his son not to climb too high: the heat of the sun may melt the wax, but Icarus is already gazing into the distance, and the lamentations of a foolish old man interest him not in the least

Besides the design of the pyramid, with its nine-tiered sides and four staircases facing the cardinal points, it is interesting that beneath the building, at a depth of some 25 metres, lies a karst lake, which is thought capable of threatening the structu

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September digest: archaeological finds, exhibitions, museums, theatre and the Church

Frederic Leighton

Attempts to resolve the problems of many years of uncontrolled mass migration

Characters from Gogol's "Petersburg Tales" on the pedestal of the monument to Nikolai Gogol on Nikitsky Boulevard, photograph of the 1960s