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제우스가 독수리로 변신하면 등잔이 된다?
This exquisite bronze oil lamp depicts Zeus transformed into an eagle as he carries Ganymede up to Olympus. It originates from Vani, an important centre of ancient Colchis, located in present-day western Georgia. The lamp features three spouts at the back, allowing for multiple flames. It was likely designed to be suspended, as indicated by…
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Spilling Hoard
The Spilling Hoard is one of the largest Viking Age silver hoards ever discovered in Gotland, Sweden. It was found in 1999 near the farm of Spilling and dates to around the late 9th century. The hoard consists of two separate deposits containing a combined total of about 67 kilograms of silver, including coins, ingots,…
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Comic Bats by Utagawa Kuniyoshi, circa 1846.
Comic Bats (Yatsuatari dōke kōmori). Artist: Utagawa Kuniyoshi, circa 1846. Medium: Polychrome woodblock print. Source / Collection: Richard Kruml – JapanesePrints-London. In the early 1840s, the Tokugawa shogunate passed strict censorship laws known as the Tenpō Reforms to stop luxury spending in society. The government banned ukiyo-e artists from drawing popular kabuki theater actors. Artists…
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Paul the Apostle’s First Missionary Journey (c. 46-48 CE)
Paul the Apostle undertook multiple missionary journeys across the Roman Empire to spread Christianity, establish churches, and strengthen the faith of early Christians. Paul’s first missionary journey, accompanied by Barnabas and John Mark, took him from Antioch in Syria through Cyprus and into the regions of Pisidia and Lycaonia in modern-day Turkey, where he established…
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Missionary Journey Paul the Apostle, 49~52 CE
A map of the missionary journey Paul the Apostle undertook across the Roman Empire to spread Christianity, establish churches, and strengthen the faith of early Christians. Paul’s second missionary journey, accompanied by Silas and later joined by Timothy and Luke, expanded his mission into Europe for the first time. It took him from Antioch in…
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Baroque Piazza Navona
One of the most famous destinations in Rome, that being the Baroque Piazza Navona. It has splendid Baroque masterpieces with works by Borromini and Bernini. It is built over the exact dimensions of Domitian’s Stadium built in 86 AD. There are three fountains in the square with Bernini’s “Fountains of Four Rivers” constructed in 1651…
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The Kurds in Turkiye, Iraq, Iran and Syria
The Kurds are an ethnic group of 30-40 million people living mostly in Turkiye, Iraq, Iran and Syria.They speak a language related to Farsi (Persian) and are mostly Sunni Muslims.International treaties in the 1920s divided Kurdish lands between newly-made countries, leaving the Kurds without a state of their own.Kurdish groups have fought for autonomy or…
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Recycling in Ancient Times
Recycling is nothing new. Back in Roman times, we know that glass was reworked into objects like the beads pictured below, and good use was also found for broken Samian Ware in the form of the gaming counters, also found at Trimontium. Even before that, in the Iron Age, metal was known to be recycled…
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캔터베리가 선사한 7세기 앵글로색슨 시대 펜던트
7th-century Anglo Saxon Canterbury Pendant A fine example of an Anglo Saxon pendant made from a gold disc inlaid with garnets and glass. The empty central spaces would have been filled with white paste to form a cross. It was found just west of Canterbury City Walls at Cranmer House, formerly Westgate Court farm in…
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고대 이스라엘 12지파와 삼한 78國
The Twelve Tribes of Israel according to the Book of Joshua around 1200-1050 B.C. 물론 아주 정확하지는 아니하는 대략의 위치겠지만 암튼 저 지도가 구약성서 여호수아서Book of Joshua에 보이는 이스라엘 열두 지파 분포라 하거니와 이르기를 기원전 1200년에서 1050년 무렵 강역도랜다. 저걸 번역에서는 지파라지만 역사쪽에서 쓰는 말을 준용하면 부족이다. 대략 지금의 이스라엘 영토와 주변을 포괄한다. 지금의 이스라엘을…
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