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Acropolis Museum Features New Exhibition of Ancient Greek Art From Italy - The Pappas Post
10+ min ago (307+ words) Home / Culture / History / Acropolis Museum Features New Exhibition of Ancient Greek Art From Italy The Acropolis Museum is celebrating its 17th anniversary this summer with a remarkable new exhibition titled Inspirations. Ancient Greek Art living in Italy. Running from 16 June to…...
Ancient cathedrals and farming islands reveal the lagoon's more tranquil side
8+ min ago (443+ words) Il Sole 24 ORE Ancient cathedrals and farming islands reveal the lagoon's more tranquil side Away from the crowds of St Mark's Square lies an ancient world steeped in history, just waiting to be discovered From the top of Torcello's bell…...
Ditch full of 7, 000-year-old headless human skeletons discovered in Slovakia, baffling archaeologists
1+ hour, 5+ min ago (473+ words) Archaeologists are unsure why people in Stone Age Slovakia removed corpses' heads before burying them in a neighborhood ditch. At the entrance to a Stone Age neighborhood in Slovakia, archaeologists have uncovered a ditch full of headless human skeletons. While…...
History: Worsening Relations in the German Empire. In the Wake of the Franco-Prussian War (1871)
1+ hour, 55+ min ago (577+ words) [This article by CRG Research Associate Shane Quinn was first published by GR in 2023.] In the final years of Otto von Bismarck's near two decade reign (187190) as chancellor of the German Empire, he was keeping an especially watchful eye on…...
How Antoni Gaud" built the Sagrada Fam"lia, his tower to God
3+ hour, 41+ min ago (13+ words) National Geographic...
Lost Mersey tunnel monument recreated 92 years on
5+ hour, 33+ min ago (520+ words) The monument has been recreated and put where the original one stood A missing monument marking the history of the Mersey Tunnels connecting Liverpool and the Wirral has been recreated. Two identical circular were designed by tunnel architect Herbert Rowse…...
Sagrada Fam'lia crowns Jesus Tower as pope blesses centennial tribute
1+ hour, 37+ min ago (346+ words) Pope's visit marks Gaud" centennial as Barcelona basilica nears finish in 2030s The Sagrada Familia in Barcelona, Spain, will complete its tallest central tower 144 years after construction began. On the 10th (local time), the 100th anniversary of Antoni Gaud"'s death, Pope Leo…...
A look at the hidden treasures of Barcelona's Sagrada Familia, ahead of Pope Leo's visit
2+ hour, 13+ min ago (18+ words) Yahoo News Canada...
Deep-sea robot finds nearly intact shipwreck off Norway with stacks of Chinese porcelain still on the seabed
2+ hour, 39+ min ago (427+ words) "It's something of a dream wreck." Off Norway, archaeologists have located a largely preserved shipwreck that offers an unusually vivid glimpse of 18th-century trade, with Chinese porcelain still stacked on the seafloor. The wreck lies almost 2, 000 feet down in the…...
Harris on History: 1874, Vienna's Most Dangerous Hour
4+ day, 14+ hour ago (690+ words) In the turbulent years after the Civil War, north Louisiana often seemed only a spark away from open war. Lincoln Parish was born into that storm. Instead, it became one of those rare Reconstruction episodes in which angry men with…...