A blog about various historical subjects under my unique point of view
Owner: spyrettos
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Tags: greek history, Byzantine empire history, Hellenic history, mediterranean world
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Latest Blog Posts for General and historical subjects
- Museum island part 4 (Byzantine sculpture and coins)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 3The 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)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)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 Krakowon Jul 26, 2015 in Krakow medieval history modern art museums National history museum Polish history Polish museums winged hussarsThe 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 AthensThe theater of DionysusThe Philopappos monumentPart of the Emperor Hadrian's libraryThiseion...
- Apostolos MousourisApostolos 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)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 worldVasili 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.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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