The team at New York University discovered that the clay eventually resembled a Sphinx-like formation which was subsequently detailed by humans. Historians and archaeologists have, over centuries, explored the mysteries behind the Great Sphinx of Giza: What did it originally look like? What was it designed to represent? What was its original name? But less […]
Photographer: Ola Myrin, Sveriges museum om Förintelsen /SHM (CC BY). Exteriör, Sveriges museum om Förintelsen, Torsgatan 19 i Stockholm. On 21 June, the Swedish Holocaust Museum opened its doors for the first time in central Stockholm. The museum’s first exhibition, Seven lives, opened at the same time. The exhibition is about seven people who, against […]
750,000 coins will be minted There will be 10,000 coin cards issued, which will sell for 10 euros each The coin and coin card will go on sale at 12.00 in the Omniva online shop Coins and coin cards will be available from the Eesti Pank museum from 10.00 on 28 January This year is […]
The presentation of the exhibition “Auschwitz. Not Long Ago. Not Far Away” at the Museum of Jewish Heritage in New York has been extended until August 30, 2020. During the first five months the exhibition was visited by 106,000 people including 34,000 students. “I don’t think that there is a more important exhibition presented in […]
JFK giving speech at Fort Worth rally Date: 11/22/1963 John Fitzgerald Kennedy, the 35th president of the United States, is assassinated while traveling through Dallas, Texas, in an open-top convertible. First lady Jacqueline Kennedy rarely accompanied her husband on political outings, but she was beside him, along with Texas Governor John Connally and his wife, […]
An original letter written by an SS man from the German Auschwitz camp garrison Stefan Dilmetz has been donated to the Auschwitz Memorial Archives. It is the first result of the appeal by the Museum announced in January to the German and Austrian public regarding the transfer of documents, photos, or private letters related to […]
Engravings of a seven-armed menorah (left) and a cross were carved thousands of years ago in a cave in southern Israel. Credit: Sa’ar Ganor, Israel Antiquities Authority A rare and intriguing discovery was revealed this weekend by hikers exploring a water cistern in the Judean Shephelah: on the walls of the cistern, which is hewn […]