The Ancestors of Actor Timothée Chalamet Come from Minsk
Timothée Chalamet's ancestors are from Minsk.
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Kiel archaeologists link tool reworking in southern Africa to food availability
I have come across an interesting idea about a connection between how intensively the stone tools of early Homo sapiens were reworked and how much food their landscape had to offer. A group of archaeologists from Kiel University studied material from the sites of Florisbad and Lombard's Drift
Archaeologist James Starkey, Finder of the Lachish Letters, Was Killed in 1938 Over a Land Dispute
James Leslie Starkey is known to everyone who has had anything to do with biblical archaeology, and to almost no one outside it. In 1935 he found the "Lachish Letters", potsherds bearing the correspondence of a Judaean garrison on the eve of the Babylonian assault of 588 BC,
Victoria and Albert Museum opens exhibition on Constantinople and Istanbul on 7 November 2026
The Victoria and Albert Museum in London has at last done what museums usually avoid on administrative grounds: it has placed in a single gallery Byzantine and Ottoman objects that spent a century and a half in different departments. The exhibition Constantinople to Istanbul: One City, Two Empires opens on
British director Catherine Round films taxi drivers of Kamaishi, a city hit by the 2011 tsunami
The Briton Katharine Round has made a documentary about Kamaishi, a town on the Pacific coast of Iwate Prefecture that was engulfed by the tsunami in March 2011. Round set up cameras in the cabs of taxis and left them running. In the frame are four drivers, Toru Konno, Yoshiji