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Looking at this face, aflame with insidious schemes, one cannot help asking: was Lenin a German spy after all, or a German agent? That Germany financed the Russian revolution is known for a fact. What remains in question is precisely how the revolutionaries spent the German money. Second, the German
Archaeology · The East · Museums · Heritage
Ruins of the sunken city of Canopus have been found off the coast of Alexandria in Egypt. During excavations, archaeologists uncovered limestone buildings, an ancient dock, water reservoirs and monumental statues, among them a sphinx bearing images of the pharaoh Ramesses II. The port of Canopus was one of the
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The monastery was founded in the 6th century at the supposed site of the burning bush and is considered the oldest continuously inhabited monastery in the world. It holds a unique collection of Byzantine icons and manuscripts, second in importance only to that of the Vatican. Although it stands in
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When I looked out of the car window as a child at such strange hills, it seemed to me that inside them there were secret rooms, corridors, whole buildings and defensive towers. If you take a closer look at the ruins of Uruk, that is just how it turns out.
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Part of the great chain that guarded the approach to Constantinople from the sea. Galata Tower Museum, Istanbul. A link just like this one, or this very one, was formerly displayed at the Archaeological Museum
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From a historical point of view, this would be a very interesting alliance.
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It is reported that the Armenian Cathedral of the Holy Virgin in Ani, the capital of medieval Bagratid Armenia, in present-day eastern Turkey on the border with Armenia, is to be turned into a mosque. The cathedral has enormous historical and symbolic significance for Armenians. The thousand-year-old
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During the ethnic cleansing of the Nakba, a consequence of the creation of the State of Israel, Jewish militias expelled more than 750,000 people from Palestine in 1948, including 90,000 Palestinian Christians, and destroyed or forced the closure of around thirty Christian churches
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The so-called Necklace of the Spanish Inquisition. The name was coined for advertising purposes by the jeweller Harry Winston, who also claimed that this piece, made of Colombian diamonds and emeralds, had belonged to the Spanish royal family. It was acquired by the Maharaja of Indore and subsequently took
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When a clown moves into a palace, he does not become a king. The palace turns into a circus Turkish proverb
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Trump was deified in India on the eve of his visit to the country in early 2020. I understand, of course, that Hinduism is the closest living equivalent of the Hellenic religion, and that the Romans never missed a chance to admit new gods and fold them into their worldview.