Raider of the lost coins: Detectorist, 30, inspired by Indiana Jones finds £65, 000 Roman hoard after studying satellite imagery near his Suffolk home An Indiana Jones fan’s boyhood dreams have come t...
05.17.2022 Dailymail.co.uk and 3 sitesIn 1868 the Museum of Zagreb in Croatia, then part of the Austro-Hungarian Empire, acquired an Egyptian mummy of a woman. Her previous owner had removed her wrappings but held on to them. She had been...
05.19.2022 Nationalgeographic.com and 1 sitesTwo of the 46 vulture figures on the central section of the ceiling (central bay) of Khnum at Esna. At the top, the Upper-Egyptian goddess Nekhbet with the head of a vulture, below, the Lower-Egyptian...
05.17.2022 Myscience.org and 7 sitesAn opera composer would need the epic gifts and epic gall of a Richard Wagner to consider an adaptation of “Hamlet” and think: “Yup, I’ve got this. ” “My initial response, ” Brett Dean has ventured mo...
05.15.2022 Nytimes.com and 6 sitesOne of the boldest things about Brett Dean and Matthew Jocelyn’s “Hamlet, ” which runs at the Metropolitan Opera through June 9, is the way that it treats some of the most famous lines in English. Moments into the piece, we meet Hamlet (the tenor Allan Clayton at the Met), muttering a bare fragment of his monologue, “… or not to be. / … or not to be. / … or not to be. ” When the time comes for the great soliloquy, though, it takes a strange form. Jocelyn, the librettist, uses text from the untra...
05.16.2022 Nytimes.comA joint German-Egyptian archaeological mission, who’ve been working at Egypt’s Esna temple since 2020, have succeeded in uncovering patterns, pictures, and colors from the ceilings and walls of the te...
05.16.2022 Ancient-origins.net and 1 sitesWhile big sprawling cities are certainly a modern phenomenon, urban centers have existed across the globe for at least 6, 000 years. Whether as a result of human conflict or natural disasters many met...
05.15.2022 Msn.comA woman sings with an angst-ridden expression while a man looks on, seemingly aghast [https: //d1e00ek4ebabms. cloudfront. net/production/d7bb50df-1ca3-4c2d-9ed9-41b1ad78a96d. jpg] Brenda Rae as Ophel...
05.16.2022 Ft.comThe U. S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) today announced plans to purchase Fresh Vegetables (Sweet Potatoes) for distribution to various food nutrition assistance programs. Purchases will be made un...
05.17.2022 Usda.govShare Pin 0 Shares William Shakespeare’s works have proven irresistible to many classical composers through the centuries, yet there are few operatic adaptations that have remained popular. One of the latest attempts, Hamlet with music by Brett Dean ...
05.16.2022 Observer.com and 3 sites