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The exhibition "Byzantine Symphony" has opened at the Museum of the International Numismatic Club in Bolshoy Afanasyevsky Lane

The exhibition "Byzantine Symphony. Treasures Earthly and Heavenly" has opened at the Museum of the International Numismatic Club in Bolshoy Afanasyevsky Lane. The display offers a reinterpretation of the legacy of Byzantine art in a contemporary space. Forms borrowed from medieval ecclesiastical and secular architecture create a special

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Tourist discovers 1,700-year-old Roman sarcophagus in use at a Bulgarian bar

Tourist discovers 1,700-year-old Roman sarcophagus in use at a Bulgarian bar. Ah, those Balkans.

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Alberto Giacometti's "Standing Woman", by the Swiss master of the twentieth century, and an Etruscan statuette of the 3rd century BC

"Standing Woman" by the twentieth-century Swiss master Alberto Giacometti and a statuette of the Etruscans of the 3rd century BC. Which is which, you must work out for yourselves

Archaeology · Art · Madrid · Museums

Orestes and Pylades, Castor and Pollux, Antinous and Hadrian: it is not known for certain whom the San Ildefonso Group in the Prado Museum collection actually depicts

Most often the youths are identified as Orestes and Pylades at the moment of a sacrifice in gratitude for their successful return from Tauris. The statuette of the woman on the left is Artemis or Persephone, to whom the sacrifice is made. The sacrificial character of the scene is indicated

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On 16 October the Museum of the International Numismatic Club will open the exhibition "Byzantine Symphony"

On 16 October the International Numismatic Club's Museum will open the exhibition "Byzantine Symphony. Treasures Earthly and Heavenly". The history and art of ancient Byzantium will be told through an integral part of the artistic culture of the Middle Ages: coins. A most significant event in

NB! · Archaeology · Architecture · Faith · Paris

The oldest church in Paris, the Church of Saint-Germain-des-Prés, which gave its name to the Faubourg Saint-Germain

The oldest church in Paris, the Church of Saint-Germain-des-Prés, which gave its name to the Faubourg Saint-Germain. Parts of the church preserve elements of the building of the 11th and 12th centuries. To the left of the altar stands a statue of the Madonna of the

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One of the Earliest Photographs of Stonehenge

Archaeology · Architecture · Faith · Heritage · Paris

After the 2019 fire at Notre-Dame de Paris, France's National Institute for Preventive Archaeological Research (Inrap) was permitted to carry out excavations on an unprecedented scale

After the 2019 fire at Notre-Dame de Paris, France's National Institute for Preventive Archaeological Research (Inrap) was permitted to carry out excavations on an unprecedented scale. The discoveries made in the course of the dig will undoubtedly expand considerably our knowledge of Notre-Dame de Paris and

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An Ancient Greek Lyre of Tortoiseshell and Wood

Archaeology · Faith · The East · Science

In the 1960s, archaeologists from the Universities of Istanbul and Chicago worked on excavations in the region of South-Eastern Anatolia and found a mound there, covered with limestone slabs

In the 1960s, archaeologists from the Universities of Istanbul and Chicago worked on excavations in the region of South-Eastern Anatolia and found a mound there, covered with limestone slabs. The scholars documented the fact of the find, but the place did not interest them overmuch. So the mound lay

Archaeology · Books · Rome

In Rome, on Piazza Pia, archaeologists have discovered the remains of Caligula's portico

In Rome, on Piazza Pia, archaeologists have discovered the remains of Caligula's portico. The emperor had this portico built in the gardens of his mother, Agrippina the Elder (the granddaughter of Augustus and the daughter of Agrippa, his closest associate). The gardens occupied almost the whole of the

Archaeology · Archive · The East · Interviews · Museums · Saint Petersburg

The Hermitage is holding an exhibition "The Archaeological Phenomenon" until 29 September

Until 29 September the Hermitage is hosting the exhibition "The Archaeological Phenomenon. Between Past and Future". Today an interview was published with the exhibition's chief curator, Natalia Sutyagina, Senior Researcher in the Hermitage's Department of the East. I decided to highlight the most interesting