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On 4 April 1921 the legendary Guarrazar treasures of the Visigothic hoard, including the crown of Suintila presented to Queen Isabella II, were stolen from the Royal Armoury of the Royal Palace in Madrid. The jewels were never found
Archaeology · Museums · Paris · Humour
An urn that proves that ancient art is not merely vases, but a philosophy of form. The photograph shows an Etruscan funerary urn, roughly of the 4th to 3rd centuries BC, from the collection of the Louvre. Such vessels come from central Italy, the region of Etruria, and were used
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A clay female figurine with a swing, from a household shrine of the Late Minoan period. The uprights of the swing are decorated with a red pattern and surmounted by doves perched upon them. Enigmatic artefacts of bygone ages, whose true meaning one can only guess at
Archaeology · Faith · The East
Scarcely credible, but excavations at the ancient city of Irenopolis in Turkey have turned up a 1,300-year-old loaf of bread that has survived to this day. The Byzantine loaves have come down to us with a stamp and a Greek inscription, which may indicate that they were
Archaeology · Art · Museums · Observations · Paris
The sculpture is believed to have been created between the Fourth (2543-2436 BC) and Fifth (2435-2306 BC) Dynasties, but the name we give the scribe is conventional, merely one of the versions; the owner of the tomb in which the sculpture was found in 1850 has so far
Archaeology · Rome
Archaeologists exploring the southern part of Pompeii have found traces of two waves of resettlement, in the late 1st to early 3rd century and in the 4th and 5th centuries. Among the finds are food remains, coins, the skeleton of a horse and the remains of a newborn child, buried
Archaeology · Faith · The East · Museums
An amulet in the form of a dog, made around the 3rd millennium BC, is dedicated to Gula of the pantheon of south-western Iran Gula was venerated in Mesopotamia as the patroness of healing and medicine. Her sacred symbol was the dog, associated with rites of healing
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📌 The story of the circus performer Matryona Rasputina, daughter of Grigory Rasputin 📌 666 degrees Celsius. The forecast of the end of the world by Isaac Newton 📌 The financing of the 1917 revolution and other insidious geopolitical projects of Germany 📌 The oldest Christian monastery in the Sinai desert is under threat
Archaeology
In an archaeological park near the town of Rechnitz (Austria), four earthwork circles about 100 metres in diameter have been discovered. They were built in the Middle Neolithic, in the 5th millennium BC, 2,000 years before Stonehenge. Similar circles are found throughout Central Europe. Although their exact purpose remains
Archaeology · Observations · Nature
In the first place, of course, he has a wife and children back in the den; and in the second, imagine yourself a fairly sturdy East Asian Homo erectus, in possession of a large brain, meeting a Flores or Luzon man, representatives of a race of little humanoids. Undoubtedly, this
Archaeology · Monarchies · Observations
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An Ancient Egyptian Temple in the Middle of Siberia. What? Yes The Krasnoyarsk Museum of Local Lore is one of the oldest museums in Siberia and the Far East and one of the largest in Russia. Its building, designed in the Egyptian style, was the work of the distinguished Krasnoyarsk