A newly unearthed collection of choral music is unlike any other music of its time. Who composed it? All the evidence points to the youngest daughter of Lucrezia Borgia
A hoard of coins dating from the final days of the Roman Empire has been found in an orchard in Gelderland. Experts believe the fortune was buried by a Frankish military leader in the second half of the fifth century, when the area was part of the Western Roman Empire, which collapsed in 476AD. Some of the 41 gold pieces unearthed in Lienden, near Veenendaal, bear the image of Majorian, one of the empire’s last rulers, who reigned for four years from 457. ‘On that basis we think this treasure was buried in around 460,’ said Nico Roymans, professor of archaeology at the Vrije Universiteit in Amsterdam.
Islamist militants in Mali have attacked one of the most famous mosques in the historic city of Timbuktu, residents say.
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Ansar Dine spokesman Sanda Ould Bamana told the BBC that his movement had now completed nearly 90% of its objective to destroy all mausoleums that are not in line with Islamic law.
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The 55-nation Organisation of the Islamic Conference said in a statement that the sites Ansar Dine had attacked were "part of the rich Islamic heritage of Mali and should not be allowed to be destroyed and put in harm's way by bigoted extremist elements".
That is some undiplomatic language btw. Not that I disagree, it's just unusually strong language coming from the Islamic countries condemning Muslim extremists. Especially considering that this is standard Wahhabi procedure, they did the same thing to Shi'ite and Sufi shrines in Saudi Arabia and Qatar when they came to power in SA in the early 20th century. So I'm frankly amazed the Saudis supported this statement.
An additional aim of the project has been to document the history of the collection in order to better contextualize how this new chapter in its biography marks both a continuation of its relationship to furthering knowledge, and the establishment of new forms of engagement with publics that could never have been imagined by those individuals who had initially put pen to paper.
An additional aim of the project has been to document the history of the collection in order to better contextualize how this new chapter in its biography marks both a continuation of its relationship to furthering knowledge, and the establishment of new forms of engagement with publics that could never have been imagined by those individuals who had initially put pen to paper.
I think they call that 'Crackademia.'
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According to SANA the Syrian Arab Army and competent local authorities completed four major busts in and around the ancient city.
SANA added that the stolen statues were handed over to the General Directorate of Antiquities and Museums, as these ancient artifacts date back to the 2nd and 3rd centuries A.D.
14,000 years ago, illuminated by animal fat lamps, two bison were expertly modelled in wet clay in the dark recesses of Le Tuc d'Audoubert cave in southwest France. The bison still show markings traced by the sculptor’s fingernails #IceAgeArtpic.twitter.com/BnDPf4t11s
A series of LiDAR surveys has revealed some 60,000 ancient Mayan structures hiding under the jungle canopy in Guatemala.
The hundreds of houses, palaces and roads identified by the surveys have offered new insights into the sophisticated organization of the Mayan civilization at the height of their cultural and political dominance between 250 and 900 AD.
America's largest pirate mass burial site has been discovered after 300 years, with more than 100 bodies offering clues to the crew's infamous exploits.
Archaeologists believe the site is the last resting place of Captain 'Black Sam' Bellamy's crew, who drowned when their pirate ship, the Whydah Gally, was wrecked at sea in 1717.
The body of Bellamy, thought to be the richest pirate that ever lived, was never accounted for but around 100 of his crew were recovered and given a land burial in Massachusetts.