Red-Figure Owl Cup
A cup depicting an owl in the red-figure style. Attributed to the Marlay painter, third quarter 5th century BCE. (Archaeological Museum of Mykonos)
A cup depicting an owl in the red-figure style. Attributed to the Marlay painter, third quarter 5th century BCE. (Archaeological Museum of Mykonos)
Biography of William Robertson
Theodor Wiegand (Bendorf am Rhein, 1864-Berlin, 1936), was a German archaeologist famous for being responsible for the great excavations in Asia such as Priene, Miletus, Petra, Samos, Baalbek and Palmyra. He was director of the Museum of Ancient Art of Berlin and later the German Archaeological Institute published fundamental works with the results of these excavations.
The Black Bull: From Normandy to the Baltic with the 11th Armoured Division, Patrick DelaforceThe Black Bull: From Normandy to the Baltic with the 11th Armoured Division, Patrick Delaforce11th Armoured Division arriving in Normandy a few days after D-Day, and after that played a part in most major British operations from then until the end of the war.
A model of the Golden Hind, the ship in which Francis Drake (c. 1540-1596 CE). circumnavigated the globe in 1577-80 CE.
A team of paleontologists from the Chinese Academy of Sciences has discovered a new specimen of the flying dromaeosaurid, which they have named Microraptor zhaoianus. The most curious thing is that it preserves the remains of an almost complete lizard in its stomach.The lizard is unlike any other known from the Cretaceous and represents a new species, which has been named Indrasaurus wangi in honor of Professor Wang Yuan, a researcher at the Institute of Paleontology and Vertebrate Paleoanthropology and director of the Paleozoological Museum of China.
On October 12, 2002, the worst terrorist attack in the history of Indonesia occurred, which left a total of 202 people dead and 209 injured when a device mounted on a backpack carried by a suicide bomber was detonated at the Paddy's Pub nightclub and a big car bomb at Club Sari, located opposite the first one.