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Nazi-looted Jewish art returns decades later as families seek justice and lost history
1+ hour, 7+ min ago (1063+ words) France leads efforts to trace and return stolen works, with some recovered only in recent years; experts say cases are complex, often involving missing records, disputed ownership and long legal battles over Holocaust-era losses...
The Greatest Byzantine Greek Scholars of the Renaissance
6+ day, 1+ hour ago (1500+ words) Between the 14th and 15th centuries, a wave of Greek scholars left their beleaguered homeland in the Byzantine Empire for the Italian Peninsula, where their work would play an important role in the flowering of the Renaissance. The Renaissance, which literally means…...
BBC Audio | The Documentary Podcast | Albania: Land, money and the sea
6+ day, 21+ hour ago (117+ words) The battle for Hungary Your questions answered about Artemis II and space travel Hopes for a 'fragile' Middle East ceasefire Bringing India's daughters back home British Queen Elizabeth II's century of fashion Pakistan: Hospitals putting children at risk of HIV…...
Notorious Ottoman Pirate Barbarossa Was Scourge of Mediterranean
1+ week, 5+ day ago (902+ words) The notorious pirate, Barbarossa, who eventually went on to be an admiral in the Ottoman Navy, was surprisingly half Greek. As a pirate, he was extremely successful, and his many victories for the Ottomans in the 16th century helped them secure…...
Who Were the Cimmerians of Greek Mythology?
22+ hour, 57+ min ago (617+ words) The Cimmerians were a people who were active in Anatolia during the Archaic Era. They came into conflict with the Assyrians, the Phrygians, and the Lydians, among others. Within Greek mythology, they make an intriguing appearance in a very unexpected…...
A Roman Road Secret: Never Seen Before [14: 33]
16+ hour, 32+ min ago (210+ words) 00: 00 Hello there 00: 56 Titles 01: 16 Medieval Wayside Cross 03: 15 Roman Road 04: 00 Causeway 05: 00 Electronic music 05: 50 Archaeological illustration 06: 16 Li DAR 06: 57 Tie adrift 07: 26 Another exciting development 07: 50 Earlier that day 10: 21 Sense of place 10: 42 Turnpike 10: 58 Picture in a book 13: 03 Smashing through a Romano British settlement 13: 51 Outro Chapter 1: Hello…...
Flashback in maritime History: Sea Diamond sinking at Santorini 5 April 2007
1+ week, 1+ day ago (239+ words) (www. Maritime Cyprus. com) The cruise ship, owned by Louis Hellenic Cruises, sank on April 5 2007 after ramming "a reef near the Aegean island of Santorini with 1, 195 passengers and 391 crew on board. All onboard were safely evacuated except a French man,…...
Underwater corridor in Greece reveals 2, 600 years of seafaring history
15+ hour, 58+ min ago (885+ words) Researchers have documented an underwater archaeological corridor between the Greek islands of Karpathos and Kasos. Situated in the southeastern region of the Aegean Sea, the site has preserved more than 2, 600 years of seafaring history. The discovery reveals a continuous record…...
Archaeologists found thousands of sling projectiles dating back 3, 500 years concentrated in front of the palace of Troy along with arrowheads, burned buildings, and hastily buried bodies, and now science believes that the war described by Homer in the Iliad may have been real.
1+ day, 15+ hour ago (834+ words) For centuries, historians treated Homer's Iliad as literature. A beautiful story about gods, heroes, and a woman beautiful enough to launch a thousand ships to sea. Helen, Achilles, the wooden horse. Fiction. Myth. Poetry. But beneath a hill in northwestern…...
Roman links to be 'reimagined' with museum grant
1+ day, 6+ hour ago (288+ words) A Berkshire town's Roman heritage will be "reimagined" thanks to an "80, 000 government grant. Reading Museum said it plans to use the money to create a new interactive gallery, "based on decades of ground-breaking research by the University of Reading" and…...