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The head of Henry IV, separated from his body when the Abbey of Saint-Denis was looted
Since we are on the subject of lost skulls, another set of aristocratic remains was left without its head. Henry IV (1553-1610), whom I mentioned the other day (https://theparnassian.com/schitaetsia-chto-vo-vremia-sozdaniia-kartiny-favoritka-genrikha-iv-byla-beremenna-pervym-ego-synom-kotorogo-nazovut-sezarom-v-
Archive · The East · Museums · Observations · Heritage
The fate of Khan Kenesary Kasymov's head between the Kunstkamera, Omsk and Gokhran
Returning to the skull of Sultan Kenesary Kasymov himself, the story of its wanderings through the back rooms of Russian museums has long interested many researchers. The popular opinion is that the head is kept in the Kunstkamera or in the Hermitage itself. It is said that an ashtray was
Museums · Observations · Heritage · Society · People
A historian on Kholmogorov linking Kenesary Khan's head to Kazakhstan's Latin script
Kholmogorov absurdly links the handover of Khan Kenesary's head to Kazakhstan with the Kazakh script's switch to the Latin alphabet. The head, he says, has not been handed over yet, so one may "answer" the Kazakhs' farewell to Cyrillic with a moratorium on
NB! · Archaeology · Art · Heritage
Mosaic of Fishing Cupids at the Villa Casale in Sicily, Discovered in 1959
Another witty mosaic from the same villa in Sicily: cupids fishing. The Villa Cozele (Villa Casale), where this mosaic was uncovered in 1959, is one of the richest monuments of ancient Roman art in situ
Faith · Heritage · Rome
Statue of the Infant Jesus from Santa Maria in Aracoeli in Rome, stolen in 1984
One of the shrines of Rome is the miraculous statue of the Infant Jesus in the church of Santa Maria in Aracoeli, which tradition holds to have been carved 600 years ago from the trunk of an olive tree from the Garden of Gethsemane, and which was said to be
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Looting of Yasnaya Polyana in 1941 and the rescue of Tolstoy's house from arson
During the Great Patriotic War, Yasnaya Polyana Was Occupied by the Nazis for a Month and a Half. Tolstoy's house was turned into barracks and storerooms; a cobbler's workshop was installed in it, and in the "room under the vaults", where War and Peace
Archive · Art · Books · Heritage
Tauromachia etchings found in a hidden recess of a castle library are offered at Sotheby's
A Collection of Goya Etchings Found by Chance in a French Château. Published in 1816, the Tauromaquia was no commercial success, but the etchings that have now turned up are going under the hammer at Sotheby's with a starting price of $820,000 The rare prints were discovered
NB! · Archaeology · Heritage · Science
For several years now, scholars from the University of Leipzig have been working at this site, and only half a year ago they were telling of a newly discovered fresco in which Ramesses prays to some gods or other, and here we have an entire Colossus!
NB! · Observations · Heritage · Humour
If you should wish to tell me everything, the dealer in antiquities knows where to find me
Archaeology · Observations · Heritage · Ethnography
Excavation of the Ukok Princess in 1983 and the dispute over reburial of the mummy
Why do I say alas? Because one truly wishes that the touching devotion of the people of Altai to their native mummies might be rewarded. The Ukok Princess was excavated in 1983, and her body was remarkably well preserved for its age of 2,500 years. All thanks to the
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Altai people demand the return of the Ukok Princess from a Gorno-Altaysk museum for burial
For years now the Altaians have been demanding that the Ukok Princess be returned home and committed to the earth. Though she is, in any case, kept in a museum in Gorno-Altaysk, she belongs to the Siberian Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences, and the Altaian elders, alas,