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As for Vladimir Putin's speech today at the Cultural Forum in Saint Petersburg, besides his remark about transformers, I noticed the quotation to the effect that "cultural figures build bridges between peoples – this is a mission…

Let me remind you that terrorists blew up the arch, reconstructed by the French in the 1930s, in 2015. In April this year a visualisation of the Russian project for restoring the monument was presented at the Hermitage Theatre; it was developed at the Centre for Rescue Archaeology together with

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The Sarcophagus of Alexander the Great in Constantinople

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The Natural History Museum of Venice grew out of the collection of the Venetian patrician Teodoro Correr, who in 1830 bequeathed his colossal cabinet-of-curiosities-style holdings to the city, together with substantial funds to found a public museum and…

The Natural History Museum of Venice grew out of the collection of the Venetian patrician Teodoro Correr, who in 1830 bequeathed his colossal cabinet-of-curiosities-style holdings to the city, together with substantial funds to found a public museum and to maintain it thereafter in the three halls and

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One of the partially surviving ancient stone theatres of Rome: begun under Julius Caesar and opened under Octavian Augustus, destroyed in 64 and surmounted in the 16th century with residential storeys, the Theatre of Marcellus was excavated and restored i

One of the partially surviving ancient stone theatres of Rome: begun under Julius Caesar and opened under Octavian Augustus, destroyed in 64 and surmounted in the 16th century with residential storeys, the Theatre of Marcellus was excavated and restored in the 1930s. The living quarters above the old arcades were

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On the website of the Ryazan Diocese I read how volunteers, together with local historians and villagers, found in the village of Semion a bas-relief of the Saviour from one of the oldest churches of Ryazan Governorate

The church of the Great Martyr Paraskeva Pyatnitsa in the village of Tolpino, Ryazhsk District, was destroyed in 1933. It was pulled down on the orders of the local district executive committee and the chairman of the village soviet, illegally, despite an express prohibition on destroying the church as a

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In 1913 a number of English-language newspapers carried an article claiming that several temple-like chambers had been discovered inside the Great Sphinx

In 1913 a number of English-language newspapers carried an article claiming that several temple-like chambers had been discovered inside the Great Sphinx. The text reported that there was a fairly large room both inside the head and inside the body, and that in one of these chambers small

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Eye-shaped elements of ancient Egyptian funerary furnishings

Eye-shaped elements of ancient Egyptian funerary furnishings. Such inlaid eyes usually contained glass and obsidian imitations of the pupil and the eyeball

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Girls Are Standing, Standing to One Side

The ruins of Cyrene, the chief city of Libya according to Herodotus

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Votive clay plaque of the 4th century BC from the Sanctuary of Eleusis, with four holes at the corners for hanging

The image on the plaque lifts a corner of the veil over the riddle of the Eleusinian Mysteries. Demeter sits on a cista, a chest on legs, beside Persephone, who holds torches and lights the way into the sanctuary for a ceremony of men and women. At the feet of

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Stone Age people simply did it...

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Places Around the World Where Roman Coins Have Been Found

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Like other sensational news, the Mexican apparition of aliens from Peru was fairly quickly exposed by scientists

Like other sensational news, the Mexican apparition of aliens from Peru was fairly quickly exposed by scientists. Even without seeing the remains at close quarters, anthropologists from various countries point to the spurious character of the finds presented. Most probably, the objects billed as alien skeletons and mummies of humanoids