Archaeology · Science
The Polish underwater archaeologist Michał Grzegorz Grabowski of the University of Warsaw has published the results of his study of a 17th-century shipwreck. Divers found the vessel in 2023 in the Greifswald Bay in northern Germany, while preparing the route for an underwater gas pipeline. The Greifswald Bay is
Cinema · Listings · Science · Society
At about nine in the evening on 1 December 1991, Vice-Admiral Yury Ustimenko, First Deputy Commander of the Northern Fleet, came aboard the heavy aircraft-carrying cruiser "Admiral of the Fleet of the Soviet Union Kuznetsov" in Sevastopol. He ordered the ship's captain, Viktor Yarygin,
Faith · Architecture · The East · Heritage
Restoration of a tenth-century church has been completed in the Georgian village of Didi Kldeisi in Tetritskaro Municipality. Tetritskaro Municipality lies in the Kvemo Kartli region in the south of Georgia. After its restoration, the church was consecrated in honour of the Dormition of the Most Holy Mother of
Art · Museums · Heritage · Society
The British government has temporarily barred the export from the country of the bronze statuette "Seated Nymph" by the Italian sculptor Pier Jacopo Alari Bonacolsi, whom his contemporaries nicknamed Antico. Experts have valued the statuette at £4.6 million. The temporary bar gives British museums and galleries time
Art · Archive · Museums · Heritage
The Bavarian State Painting Collections have returned to the heirs of Sophie Heilbronner, née Wimpfheimer, the painting "Music (Arcadian Scene)" by the German artist Albert Lang, painted in 1892. The Bavarian State Painting Collections bring together the museums of Munich, among them the Alte and Neue Pinakothek. The
Art · Books · Society · Pop Culture
The auction house Christie's has created a separate global pop culture department, which will hold several sales a year and offer objects connected with cinema and television, music and musical instruments, sport, science and technology, natural history, fashion and popular design. Christie's spent several years studying
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Greta Gerwig's film "Narnia: The Magician's Nephew" is due to reach cinemas in February 2027. Clive Staples Lewis wrote seven books in the "Chronicles of Narnia" cycle, and since 1950 readers have bought more than 100 million copies of them. The talking
Aristocracy · Art · Monarchies · Museums · Science
The Getty Museum in Los Angeles has acquired a newly discovered painting by Diego Velázquez. The work is the first piece by the seventeenth-century Spanish master in the museum's collection. Velázquez painted the bust-length portrait around 1626; it depicts Gaspar de Guzmán, Count-Duke of Olivares.
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Archaeology · Museums · Heritage · New York
The Manhattan District Attorney's Office has handed over to Greece ancient objects that until recently were held by the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York. Since 2017 the Manhattan prosecutor's office has had a special unit devoted to combating the illicit trade in antiquities, which
Observations · Heritage · Society · Paris
Corporal punishment (I am not speaking of running the gauntlet, branding and the knout, but in the form of the bastinado at the very least) must surely be restored. Precisely for such occasions, when the early bird has started to sing, lest the cat should eat it
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