Latest Blog Posts for General and historical subjects

• Museum island part 4 (Byzantine sculpture and coins)
  on Aug 31, 2015 in Berlin museums Byzantine coins Byzantine currency Byzantine empire Byzantine exhibits Byzantine ivory Eastern roman history Emperors on coins Ivory artwork museums
  Byzantine ivory art had almost always the same artistic theme. Pictures from significant religious events of christianity.Ivory was a precious material that was used by Byzantine artists up to the 7th century when the empire started to gradually ...
• Museum island part 3
  on Aug 25, 2015 in Ancient Egypt.Babylon Archaeology museum of Berlin Assyria Berlin museums Gate of Ishtar history of the middle east Market of Miletus museums Pergamon museum Persia
  The gate of Ishtar. The main gate Babylon. It is a replica of how would it look like.The market gate of Miletus.Miletus was an ancient Greek colony. It was the leading city during the Ionian revolution against the Persians.It continued prospering dur...
• Museum island part 2 (Berlin archaeology museums)
  on Aug 21, 2015 in Ancient coinage Ancient Greece Ancient Greece in Germany Ancient Greek coins Ancient greek mythology in vases Archaeology museum of Berlin Berlin museums Hellenistic statue museums
  The archaeological museum of Berlin. One of the 5 museums of the Museum Island in Berlin.A child helps a drunk person to vomit.Pericles the great Athenean statesman who led Athens during  Golden age.A Persian soldierAnother Persian soldierAchill...
• Museum island Part 1 (Berlin archaeology museums)
  on Aug 9, 2015 in Ancient Egypt Ancient Greek exhibits in Germany Ancient Greek pottery Ancient Greek subjects ancient Rome Archaeology museum of Berlin Berlin museums museums Neues museum.
  Amazon statues outside the neues museumAn equestian AmazonMural on the museum ceilingCypriot KourosCyrpiot MedusaVotive offerings from CyprusCyprus being near the middle east and being colonized by the Mucenean Greeks had developed a unique artistic...
• National History museum of Krakow
  on Jul 26, 2015 in Krakow medieval history modern art museums National history museum Polish history Polish museums winged hussars
  The national history museum of Krakow hosts a Polish armory collection, an internal decoration collection and a modern arts collection.It's a museum worth to visit. It is housed in an old huge "communist" building.The highlights of this museums are t...
• A daywalk in Ancient Athens
  on Dec 21, 2014 in Ancient Athens Ancient Greek subjects Pictures of Athens
  The theater of DionysusThe Philopappos monumentPart of the Emperor Hadrian's libraryThiseion...
• Apostolos Mousouris
  on Sep 22, 2014 in Apostolos Mousouris communist Greeks Greek civil war Modern Greeks Soviet Greeks
  Apostolos MousourisApostolos Mousouris participated in the battles of Grammos during the Greek civil war(1948,1949) as a photographer and took some photos of great historical value.Apostolos took many pictures and the majority of them is characterize...
• Bin Landen and the U.S.A(What you sow is what you reap)
  on Aug 27, 2014 in American history Bin Landen modern history Soviet attack in Afghanistan U.S.A
  A newspaper article from the time when Bin Landen was the "good guy"He was the scion of one of Saudi Arabia's wealthiest families, a billionaire's boy who went to prep school and studied civil engineering.But driven by fear that Islam was under...
• Vasili Arkhipov : The man who saved the world
  on Apr 6, 2014 in Cold war Cuba missile crisis modern history Vasili Arkhipov WW3
  Vasili ArkhipovIt isn’t everyone who manages to literally save the world. Vasili Arkhipov did just that, and he did it so quietly that nobody in the West knew a thing about it until he was dead.In 1962, Vasili Arkhipov was serving as the executive...
• A Scottish tale of murder, incest and cannibalism.
  on Mar 11, 2014 in British history General history subjects legend Sawney Bean Scottish legend
  The LegendThe tale of Sawney Bean, arguably Scotland's most shocking and gruesome legend, was said to have taken place on the usually idyllic coast of the south-west.The most commonly told account of Sawney Bean begins in East Lothian where Alexander...

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