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2006 CT scan reveals a more realistic portrait beneath the plaster of the Nefertiti bust

It turns out that the original version of the sculpted portrait of Nefertiti had wrinkles. This was shown by a CT scan of the bust carried out in 2006, which revealed a second sculpture carved into the limestone core beneath the plaster. The inner face proved to be more realistic:

Black-and-white scratchboard illustration: a slender figure in armor and a hat hangs from a rope, surrounded by bat wings and faces and dark rocky vaults.

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Armored knight hanging on a rope among giant bats

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Savva Brodsky's illustrations for the 1976 edition of Don Quixote earned him the status of corresponding academician of the Royal Academy of Fine Arts of San Fernando in Spain

Faith · Observations

When the Saviour says “love your enemies”, it does not mean that we must bow down before evil, but that we must free ourselves from its shackles

Hieromonk Arseny Boka

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He Was Simply Watching Reels

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Evidently, It Is the New Year That Approaches

Fasten your seat belts, as they say

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Office Work: the Australian Artist Shaun Tan

Museums · Observations · Heritage · Society · Paris

One of the Louvre robbers is reported to be 39-year-old Abdoulaye N., known on social media as Doudou Cross Bitume, chiefly for his acrobatic stunts, amateur musical performances and participation in motocross

So the theses that the "professionals" of "organised crime" were "very well prepared" collapse, and give way to the picture of a gang of suburban toughs, apparently of North African origin, who belonged to no special "elite" criminal fraternity of museum thieves

Detail of an icon of the Mother of God with the Child, decorated with beads, pearls and coloured stones.

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The feast of the Kazan Icon of the Mother of God is celebrated on 4 November

Whatever Anyone May Say. ye who are in tribulations and in sorrows, and in sicknesses burdened with many sins but on 4 November, above all - The Feast of the Kazan Icon of the Mother of God

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A self-sacrificing peasant, burning with love for the Motherland, Ivan Susanin laid down his life for Rus, for the faith and for the Tsar

Painted portrait of a young man with dark hair and sideburns, wearing a dark coat, yellow waistcoat and white jabot, in a gilt frame.

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Letter from Prince Pyotr Vyazemsky to Alexander Pushkin

The arse, too, is a certain representative of human nature, but it would be absurd for a painter to depict it as a typical attribute of man. Prince Pyotr Andreyevich Vyazemsky in a letter to Alexander Sergeyevich Pushkin

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Worker injured in Conti Tower collapse during restoration in Rome has died

In the centre of Rome, on Largo Corrado Ricci, a medieval tower has collapsed, built around 1238 by the brother of Pope Innocent III as the residence of the powerful Conti di Segni family. Last night one of the workers who had been trapped beneath the rubble died of his

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