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La chapelle Sainte-Anne de la Siourie à Barenton (Manche) a remporté le Trophée du patrimoine normand.
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🇫🇷 Ce week-end, venez profiter des belles couleurs de l’automne au domaine de Trianon 🎃🍂
🌍 This weekend, come and enjoy the beautiful autumn colours at the Trianon estate 🎃🍂
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Closeups of the Valsgärde 5 Helmet, by Gabriel Hildebrand. My personal favourite. 𐘾
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In 547 BC, Croesus's army was defeated by Cyrus, the Lydian kingdom was conquered, and its capital, Sardis, was sacked. Buried in the ruins of Sardis's walls, a Lydian soldier is still clutching a slingshot stone in his left hand; his body is marked by "parry fractures" by the invading Persian army who cut him down and thrown him in the rubble of its fortifications.
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Pompéi: la découverte récente d’une armoire scellée par l’éruption du Vésuve, dans une maison de la via dell’Abbondanza, témoigne de la vie quotidienne d’il y a deux mille ans. Parmi les objets retrouvés: des cosmétiques, des pièces de monnaie, des ustensiles et un collier d’amulettes pour enfants ilgiornaledellarte.com/Artic…
Joinville le Pont en 1897, arrivée d'un train à double étage.
Film d'Auguste Baron 1855-1938, l'un des pionniers du cinéma français.
#histoire #cinema – at Ecquevilly, France
France, 1897, a double-decker train more than 125 years ago!
This remarkable early film shows a double-decker suburban train arriving at Joinville-le-Pont, just outside Paris, on the Vincennes railway line.
These unusual carriages provided extra capacity for the growing numbers travelling between Paris and its suburbs. Passengers could travel on the open upper deck, reached by external steps.
Filmed by French cinema pioneer Auguste Baron in 1897, it captures everyday commuters at a time when moving pictures themselves were still an astonishing new invention.
#Paris #1890s #RailwayHistory #Trains #VictorianEra
Très belle bague romaine en or à effet hologramme vieille de 2000 ans. – at Morainvilliers, France
Histoire du seul survivant de la bataille de Little Bighorn en 1876, USA. – at Morainvilliers, France
Comanche was the lone survivor of Custer's Last Stand.
At the Battle of the Little Bighorn in 1876, General Custer and over 200 of his men were completely wiped out. When rescue troops arrived, they found only one living thing left on the immediate battlefield: a severely wounded horse named Comanche. This photo was taken in 1877, just one year after he was found bleeding in a ravine.
Comanche belonged to Captain Myles Keogh. He was shot multiple times during the fighting but managed to pull through after soldiers carefully carried him to a supply ship for treatment. To honor his survival, the military officially retired him. They ordered that he would never be worked or ridden again. For the rest of his days, he wandered freely around military bases as a living legend. He lived to be nearly 30 years old, and you can still see his taxidermied remains on display at the University of Kansas Natural History Museum.
Michele Ange, l'extraordinaire Vierge Marie tenant le Christ mort dans ses bras. – at Morainvilliers, France
Michelangelo was only 6 years old when his mother died in 1481, and he spent much of his childhood with a nanny whose husband was a stonecutter. Years later, according to Vasari, he joked that "along with the milk of my nurse" he had received "the knack of handling chisel and hammer."
Seventeen years after his mother’s death, in August 1498, a French cardinal in Rome signed a contract with the 23-year-old sculptor for "a clothed Virgin Mary with dead Christ in her arms," meant for his funeral chapel in the old basilica of St. Peter’s. Michelangelo travelled to the quarries of Carrara to choose the marble himself, and the banker who guaranteed the contract promised it would be "the most beautiful marble work in Rome."
Even Vasari, writing in 1550, could hardly believe what he was looking at: "It is certainly a miracle that a stone, at first with no form at all, was ever reduced to that perfection that nature barely manages to form in flesh."
Whenever I see this masterpiece, I think of a six-year-old boy who no longer had his mother’s arms to hold him, who grew up among the hammers and chisels of a stonecutter’s home, and who, seventeen years later, gave the world the most loving arms ever carved in stone…
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📍 Sakarya’da sürdürülen altyapı çalışmaları sırasında, üzerinde çok satırlı yazıtlar bulunan anıtsal boyutlarda bir taş blok ortaya çıkarıldı.
Grekçe veya Latince harflerle kaleme alınmış yazıtların yanı sıra taş bloğun alt bölümünde kıvrımlı mimari bezemeler ve volüt detayları dikkat çekiyor. İlk değerlendirmelere göre bloğun resmi, idari ya da anıt ve mezar kültüyle ilişkili bir işleve sahip olabileceği düşünülüyor.
Buluntunun tarihlendirilmesi ve işlevinin belirlenmesi, gerçekleştirilecek epigrafik ve teknik incelemelerin ardından netlik kazanacak.
Kaynak: İHA (30.10.2026)
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Escomb Church, Durham. The Church dates from the mid 8th century although extensive restoration work has been carried out over the last 150 years or so.
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Britain has put a temporary export bar on a 4,000-year-old stone battle-axe.
The Scarthingwell battle-axe head came out of a field near Tadcaster in North Yorkshire in the winter of 1974. It is speckled diorite, polished smooth, about 12 cm long, with an elegant waisted shape.
It was made around 2050 to 1850 BC, as Britain shifted from flint to metal. The committee’s expert says it would have taken hundreds of hours to craft.
Museums have until 22 December 2026 to raise £15,000 and keep it in the country.
ALT Two views of the Scarthingwell battle-axe head, a 4,000-year-old polished speckled stone axe with a round shaft hole and waisted profile.
Etonnante poupée datée de près de 2 000 ans. La coiffure est réalisée avec de vrais cheveux et elle a des petites boucles d'oreilles en or. – at Morainvilliers, France
Les ruines magnifiques de l'abbaye de Whitby dans le Yorkshire du Nord, Angleterre. Abbaye fondée à l'origine au milieu du VIIe siècle – at Morainvilliers, France
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An ancient Egyptian wall painting shows the transport of a colossal statue of the nomarch Djehutihotep in his tomb at Deir el-Bersha, dating to around 1900–1880 BC (Twelfth Dynasty)...
The artwork depicts 172 men hauling the heavy statue of Djehutihotep on a large wooden sledge. Standing on the front of the sledge is a worker pouring water (or a liquid) directly onto the sand in front of the runners.
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The artwork comes from the tomb of Djehutihotep, a powerful governor in Middle Egypt. It depicts hundreds of workers hauling a colossal statue while one man stands at the front pouring liquid onto the sand, a detail that puzzled historians for generations. For years, many believed the water was part of a ritual ceremony or simply meant to reduce dust. The scene became one of the most famous depictions of ancient Egyptian engineering, offering a rare glimpse into how massive monuments were transported across the desert.
In 2014, physicists tested the idea and found the Egyptians may have understood a practical trick thousands of years before modern science explained it. Damp sand forms firmer tracks in front of a sled, reducing drag and cutting the force needed to pull heavy loads by roughly half.
The giant statue in the tomb painting is believed to weigh around 60 tons, and the figure pouring water is one of only a few people depicted at work rather than pulling the sledge, suggesting his role was specialized and crucial to the transport operation.
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Somebody buried this statue on purpose. The Boxer at Rest came out of the Quirinal Hill in Rome in 1885, and a second great Hellenistic bronze surfaced in the same area within a month.
Both had been carefully placed in the ground in antiquity, almost certainly to keep them away from a furnace.
Bronze was worth melting, which is why so little Greek bronze survives and why this one feels like a survivor.
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#Egypte: Des archéologues tchèques ont redécouvert à #Saqqara les tombes de Sabu, grand prêtre de Ptah, et de son fils Ptahshepses, haut fonctionnaire de la Ve dynastie (vers 2500-2350 av. J.-C.). Ces monuments de l’Ancien Empire, partiellement fouillés par l’égyptologue français Auguste Mariette vers 1860, avaient ensuite été engloutis par le sable. La nouvelle mission a mis au jour pour la première fois la chapelle d’offrandes de l’épouse de Sabu, Ikhetneferet, ainsi que la chambre funéraire de Ptahshepses, qui contenait encore les restes de sa momie dans un sarcophage de calcaire. Un bel exemple de redécouverte scientifique de monuments « perdus » depuis plus de 160 ans. english.ahram.org.eg/NewsCon…
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Dans la grotte #Chauvet (Ardèche) des scans UV ont révélé la présence d’une fine couche de calcite invisible à l’œil nu recouvrant en partie les dessins au charbon, vieux d’environ 37 000 ans.
Cette pellicule translucide, déposée naturellement par l’eau, a agi comme un vernis protecteur et a probablement contribué à la remarquable conservation de ces œuvres pendant des millénaires. (Cette étude a été menée par l’équipe de Philippe Walter, CNRS / Sorbonne)
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