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Clinging to a Greek cliff, this monastery welcomes people from around the world. No women allowed
MOUNT ATHOS, Greece (AP) — The medieval monastery clings almost impossibly to sheer cliffs high above the shimmering ...
The Diplomat15h
The Historical Great Powers of Asia: Medieval East Asia
This piece is part of a series of articles covering the medieval and early modern great powers of each of Asia’s regions: ...
Smithsonian Magazine23h
These Ancient Scrolls Have Been a Tantalizing Mystery for 2,000 Years. Researchers Just Deciphered a Title for the First Time
Mount Vesuvius' eruption preserved the Herculaneum scrolls beneath a blanket of ash. Two millennia later, X-ray scans show ...
Interesting Engineering1d
725-year-old Magna Carta found after 80 years at Harvard, bought for $27 as a fake
According to Harvard’s library records, the document was bought in 1946 for just $27.50. Before that, an RAF veteran had sold ...
An Archaeologist Was Digging Through a Drainage Ditch—and Found a 1,600-Year-Old Roman Ring
The team dates the ring to between 200 and 410 A.D., a time when the Romans were well established in Britain. Described as ...
Harvard Paid $27 for a Copy of Magna Carta. Surprise! It’s an Original.
Two British academics discovered that a “copy” of the medieval text, held in Harvard Law School’s library for 80 years, is ...
Smithsonian Magazine1d
The Joys of Discovering the Roman Underground, From the Colosseum to What’s Beneath the Trevi Foundation
Tourism is surging in many places around the world—swarmed national parks, throngs of visitors amassing in churches and ...
Marrakech is chaos, I found Morocco's oldest city that has hardly any tourists
I adored Marrakech, but I understand why it’s not everyone’s cup of tea. It’s good, then, that Morocco is magnificently ...
25 of the Best Prime Video Original Movies
You're probably already paying for Amaon Prime, so you might as well take advantage of all the exclusive movies Prime Video ...
On Greece's Mount Athos, a cliffside monastery transcends country-based branches of Orthodoxy
MOUNT ATHOS, Greece (AP) — The medieval monastery clings almost impossibly to sheer cliffs high above the shimmering ...
Travel + Leisure3d
Burgundy Is Your French Country Vacation Fantasy Come To Life—And It's Only a Train Ride Away From Paris
As I studied a map of Burgundy while planning a vacation with my 10-year-old son, Lucas, many of the place names looked strangely familiar. Chablis, Pouilly-Fuissé, Puligny-Montrachet, Pommard: it was ...
Eurasianet7d
Memoir: Recollecting the benefits of shoe leather diplomacy in Turkmenistan
One crowning touch was a conversation with the Turkmen director general for motor roads, who confessed that he used OpenStreetMap data on his smartphone to navigate, and another was a request from the ...