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In 1947, a Bedouin Shepherd Boy Searched for a Lost Goat in a Desert Cave: A Shattering Sound Revealed the Dead Sea ScrollsA chance discovery by a Bedouin shepherd in 1947 led to the unearthing of the Dead Sea Scrolls, a collection of ancient manuscripts found i...- View: Buckingham Palace would be an excellent museumWhile London offers many attractions, royal palaces charge substantial fees for access to state-owned treasures. Despite taxpayers funding ...
- What's common between a leopard in a furnace and mammoth's leg? This unusual Art Zoo museumAmsterdam’s new Art Zoo museum offers a surreal blend of natural history and contemporary taxidermy inside a 17th-century canal mansion. Cu...
- Go! go! caravaggio! see his sacred gameCaravaggio's rediscovered masterpiece, 'Magdalene in Ecstasy,' initially slated to leave Delhi's Kiran Nadar Museum of Art on May 18, has e...
- Papal conclave to take place in majestic Sistine ChapelFollowing Pope Francis’ death, cardinals will convene in the Sistine Chapel next month to elect a new pope. Built between 1473–81 and named...
- Why is this version of Bible in demand even after 500 years of its printing?What is a Gutenberg Bible? The term refers to each of the two-volume Bibles printed in Gutenberg's workshop around 1454.
- Site of Biblical war fought 2,700 years ago discovered. Ruins of fortified military camp unravel mysteriesArchaeologist Stephen C. Compton discovered these ruins first in 2021 and aerial photographs were taken of a site known as Ammunition Hill,...
- Oldest Hebrew Bible Codex Sassoon sold over $38.1 million at auctionThe oldest Hebrew Bible Codex Sassoon was for a whopping $38.1 million at an auction. The Bible is believed to be over 1000 years old.
- 1,000-year -old Hebrew Bible fetches $38 mn at auctionThe Bible is now the most valuable manuscript ever sold at an auction. It is said to be the earliest near complete Hebrew Bible.
- Ancient Hebrew Bible may fetch whopping $50 mn at New York auctionThe Codex Sassoon is set to go on the block at Sotheby's in New York in May.
- Rare 1,000-year-old manuscript, looted from Bulgarian forces, returned to a monastery in Greece from USThe Greek manuscript is one of the world's oldest handwritten gospels, and is believed to have been made in southern Italy.
- Germany hands over artefacts, 23 ancient pieces of jewellery looted during colonial rule to Namibia, but on loanThe returned items were taken mostly between the 1860s and the early 1890s.
- Meet Methuselah, the oldest living aquarium fish
- What's in the Louvre Abu Dhabi’s billion-dollar art collectionThe museum has been designed by the French architect Jean Nouvel.
- Bengaluru: City heritage hack tries to recreate `Ye Olde' MG roadMore than 40 photos are clicked of every structure, capturing every angle and detail. He also collects yellowing pictures of structures tha...
- Eternal 5D data disc could record history of humankindThe storage allows unprecedented properties including 360 Tb per disc data capacity, thermal stability up to 1,000 degrees Celsius.
- Night out for girls not in our culture, says Union culture minister Mahesh SharmaUnion culture minister Mahesh Sharma has stoked another controversy by saying that girls wanting a night out is not acceptable in India.
- Guns into thronesThe Facebook snap shows a man in casuals on a bridge in a forest. Is that a hunting knife on his hip?
- Google to bring Dead Sea Scrolls onlineIsrael's Antiquities Authority and Google announced Tuesday they are joining forces to bring the Dead Sea Scrolls online, allowing both sch...
- Wine by the Rhine: The German wineyardBicycling between vineyards, hiking from a hut in the Palatinate forest to a wine village or driving through, taking the 'scenic route' thr...
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