Archaeology - The Parnassian (Page 23)

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He trod with effort on the spur above the icebound river

He trod with effort on the spur above the icebound river. There used to be more of them, the proud ones, many of them, and he was the last of that kind. Tried more than once in the storm, today, as if out of spite, he gave way. From the

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Associated Press reports that this week, at a ceremony in the Manhattan District Attorney's office in New York, US authorities returned to Pakistan 133 stolen works of art with an estimated value of more than 13 million dollars

This is already the fifth handover of stolen antiquities of the Gandhara period to the South Asian country. Pakistan's Consul General in New York stated that the artefacts will go to museum collections across the country. The return of stolen artefacts to Pakistan specifically from the United States

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A Unique Publication for Russian Historical Scholarship Presented at VDNKh: The Academic History of Yugra in Eight Volumes

A publication unique in Russian historical scholarship has been presented at VDNKh: the Academic History of Yugra in eight volumes. It is the first project of its kind in Russia: a comprehensive study of the region's history, from the era of its settlement 18,000 to 16,000

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One of History's More Original Riddles: Whose Relics Lie in the Tomb Beneath the Altar of St Mark's Basilica in Venice?

The relics stolen by the Venetians from Alexandria in the ninth century belong, according to the principal version, to Saint Mark, yet there is a stubborn legend that in place of the Evangelist's remains the thieves carried home those of Alexander the Great.

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The Pyramid of Cheops, Seen from Above

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There are now about thirty genuine ancient Egyptian obelisks standing in the world; Egypt has eight, as many as Rome

There are now about thirty genuine ancient Egyptian obelisks standing in the world; Egypt has eight, as many as Rome. The tallest stands on the Lateran Hill before the Basilica of St John the Baptist. It is an obelisk from the temple of Amun-Ra at Karnak, raised in the

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A most interesting specimen of Roman plumbing: those very ceramic pipes, walled into what appears to be a lime mortar

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Delphi, once the centre of the entire Greek world

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Stonehenge in 1865, in its oldest photograph

Stonehenge in 1865, in its oldest photograph. And Stonehenge today. Someone took the proverb about a time to gather stones rather too literally

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Communication with space is unavailable, since the pyramids have shifted 4 km south of their original site since construction because of the movement of the earth's crust

Communication with space is unavailable, since the pyramids have shifted 4 km south of their original site since construction because of the movement of the earth's crust. And that is without taking into account the drift of the Earth's and the Sun's orbits

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In 1934 the French writer André Malraux decided to fly around Arabia and Africa by aeroplane

In 1934 the French writer André Malraux decided to fly around Arabia and Africa by aeroplane. Malraux is the author of the masterly novel about the eve of the Chinese revolution, "Man's Fate", from which Bertolucci made "The Last Emperor". Malraux did not fly

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