Biskupin (Poland) - Archaeological open-air museum - Late Bronze Age fortified settlement
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Biskupin is an archaeological site and a life-size model of a late Bronze Age fortified settlement in north-central Poland that also serves as an archaeological open-air museum. When first discovered it was thought to be early evidence of a West Slavic settlement, but archaeologists later confirmed it belonged to the Biskupin group of the Lusatian culture from the 8th century BC. The excavation and the reconstruction of the prehistoric settlement has played an instrumental part in Polish historical consciousness. The Museum is situated on a marshy peninsula in Lake Biskupin, ca. 90 kilometers (56 miles) northeast of Poznań and 8 km (5 mi) south of the small town of Żnin. It is a division of the National Museum of Archaeology in Warsaw. The site is one of Poland's official national Historic Monuments, as designated September 16, 1994, and tracked by the National Heritage Board of Poland.
In 1933 Polish archaeologists discovered remains of a Bronze Age fort/settlement in Wielkopolska (Greater Poland), the discovery became famous overnight. The site was excavated from 1934 onwards by the team from Poznań University. The first report was published in 1936. By the beginning of 1939, ca. 2,500 m2 (26,909.78 sq ft) had been excavated. Biskupin soon became famous, attracting numerous distinguished guests, including officials of the Marshal Piłsudski government, members of the military, and high churchmen such as the primate of Poland. The site soon became part of Polish national consciousness, the symbol of achievements of the Slavonic forebears in prehistoric times.
There are two settlement periods at Biskupin, which was located in the middle of a lake but is now situated on a peninsula, that follow each other without hiatus. Both settlements were laid out on a rectangular grid with eleven streets that are three metres (9.8 ft) wide. The older settlement from the Late Bronze Age was established on a slightly wet island of over 2 hectares (4.9 acres)[2] and consisted of ca. 100 oak and pine log-houses that were of similar layout, measuring ca. 8 by 10 metres (26 by 33 feet) each. They consisted of two chambers and an open entrance-area. These houses were designed to accommodate 10–12 persons. An open hearth was located in the centre of the biggest room. There are no larger houses that could indicate social stratification. Because of the damp, boggy ground, the streets were covered with wooden planks.
The settlement was surrounded by a tall wooden wall, or palisade, set on a rampart made up of both wood and earth. The rampart was constructed of oak trunks that form boxes filled with earth. The rampart is more than 450 metres (1,480 feet) long and accompanied by a wooden breakwater in the lake. 6,000 to 8,000 cubic metres (210,000 to 280,000 cubic feet) of wood was used in the construction of the rampart...
Olbia, Polish Archaeological Mission / 09.07-20.08.2016
Olbia, Polish Archaeological Mission, (present day Parutyne, Ukraine) / 09.07-20.08.2016
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In the year 2016 the Mission started field work. During the first season it excavated a 100m2 trench. Several thousand objects were discovered, including around 400 of special scientific importance. During the Antiquities of the Black Sea project 16 archaeologists from Poland and Ukraine worked for 6 weeks, assisted by 40 students and volunteers.
We invite you to visit the project website: blackseaproject.mnw.art.pl
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The National Archaeological Museum (Spanish: Museo Arqueológico Nacional) is a museum in Madrid, Spain. It is located on Serrano Street beside the Plaza de Colón (Columbus Square), sharing its building with the National Library.
The museum was founded in 1867 by a Royal Decree of Isabella II as a depository for numismatic, archaeological, ethnographical and decorative art collections of the Spanish monarchs.
The museum was originally located in the Embajadores district of Madrid. In 1895, it moved to a building designed specifically to house it, a neoclassical design by architect Francisco Jareño, built from 1866 to 1892. In 1968, renovation and extension works considerably increased its area. The museum closed for renovation in 2008 and reopened in April 2014. The remodelled museum concentrates on its core archaeological role, rather than decorative arts.
Its collection is based on pieces from the Iberian Peninsula, from Prehistory to Early-Modern Age. However, it also has different collections coming from outside of Spain, especially from Ancient Greece, both from the metropolitan and, above all, from Magna Graecia, and, to a lesser extent, from Ancient Egypt, in addition to a small number of pieces from Near East.
Geological museum Warsaw, Poland
Muzeum Geologiczne Warszawa
Jedyne muzeum geologiczne w Polsce, w pełni zbadające strukturę geologiczną Polski. Wystawa obejmuje różne okazy skał, minerałów, skamieniałości - wszystkie ułożone w wystawach tematycznych - a także szkielety wymarłych zwierząt epoki lodowej, takich jak mamut, wielki nosorożec (z Śląska) i niedźwiedź kudłat. Pokazano także zrekonstruowany polski dwunożny dinozaur (dylefosaur), a także utwory polskiego dinozaura i jaskini.
The only geological museum in Poland which fully explores the geological structure of Poland. The exhibition includes various specimens of rocks, minerals, fossils – all arranged in thematic exhibitions – as well as skeletons of extinct Ice Age animals such as the mammoth, a great rhinoceros (from Silesia), and the shaggy bear. Also shown is a reconstructed Polish two-legged dinosaur (the Dilophosaurus) as well as tracks made by a Polish dinosaur and a cave.
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Warsaw Intensive Course, June 2016
Innovating Training Aims and Procedures for Public Archaeology (INNOVARCH) is a Strategic Partnerships for Higher Education Action (Key Action: Cooperation for innovation and the exchange of good practice) in the framework of the Erasmus+ programme of the European Comission (project reference: 2015-1-ES01-KA203-016351)
5 Unexplained Events From Poland That Are Shrouded In Mystery
5 unexplained events from Poland that are shrouded in mystery. Today we take a look at these 5 unexplained events from Poland that are shrouded in mystery.
Mysterious legends and myths of all kind, seem to surface from all around the world. Some of these legends tend to never leave the region in which they first began, whereas others might make national headlines all around the world in their appearance.
So today, here at unexplained mysteries, we will be covering 5 unexplained events from Poland that are shrouded in mystery.
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FAILAKA MUSEUM KUWAIT (FILIPINO LANGUAGE)
KUWAIT: Throughout the years, foreign archaeological missions in Kuwait have contributed significantly to the discovery of several historic civilizations, some of which date back more than 7,000 years. The story of archaeological excavations in Kuwait dates back to 1957, before the independence of Kuwait, when the British administrator at the time invited the Danish exploration mission in Failaka Island, which is located 20 km from Kuwait City.
This was followed by the issuance of a law regulating archeological work in 1960, the first in the Gulf region, and the later establishment of Kuwait National Council for Culture Arts and Letters (NCAAL) in 2004.
Since its conception, NCAAL has signed several cooperation agreements in the field with international academic bodies like the Slovak Academy of Sciences, the French Institute for the Near East, University of London, Durham University and University of Warsaw, amongst others.
NCAAL also has its own department of antiquities and museums, which is currently cooperating with a Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) counterpart on a project on the island of Failaka, where homes and a mosque dating back to the late Islamic period have been discovered.
The above-mentioned excavation missions are predominantly focused on two areas, namely the island of Failaka and the Al-Sabbiyah area, north of the Kuwait Bay. On Failaka, a whole city inhabited by the Dilmun civilization was unearthed by a joint team of French and Kuwaiti archeologists. The civilization was around during the Bronze Age, around 2,000 BC.
The Dilmuns thrived between Mesopotamia (modern day Iraq) across the eastern regions of Saudi Arabia and Bahrain, up until the northernmost tip of the United Arab Emirates. The same team is also responsible, along with a team of Greek archeologists, for the discovery of a Hellenic castle, also on Failaka, which dates back between 323 and 146 BC.
Two churches and a village, inhibited by Christians pre-Islam, were also discovered on the island along with kitchen utensils made from pottery. On the other hand, an Kuwaiti-Italian team are carrying out the excavation of an 800m area, where buildings dating back to the early and mid-Islamic periods have been found. – KUNA
3000-year-old graveyard discovered by archaeologists in Poland
Archaeologists in Poland have stumbled across an unexpected find while exploring the site of a planned motorway - a 3000-year-old graveyard. Report by Grace Dean.
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Nieszawa: a forgotten medieval city in Poland discovered with the use of remote sensing techniques
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Nieszawa has been founded to the west of the Dybów Castle, buit in 15th c. As an initiative of Polish king Władysław II Jagiełło. The settlement received in 1425 municipal rights, becoming Nowa (New) Nieszawa, Nieszawa or Dybowo. The name was an association with an earlier settlement, located 3 km further to the west (at present Mała Nieszawka) at foregrounds of the first Teutonic Order's castle on Polish lands erected in first half of 13th c. and demolished after signing of the Treaty of Melno in 1422.
This second Nieszawa developed dynamically, benefiting from its location on the bank of the Vistula river, not one kilometre away from the walls of Teutonic town of Toruń (Thorn). Border location and rising income from river trade became reasons of socioeconomic tension between the Kingdom of Poland and Teutonic Order. After the mutiny of Toruń's townspeople against the Teutonic rule and in appreciation of their involvement in the Thirteen Years' War (1454--66), Polish king Casimir IV Jagiellon gave out a decree -- according to the will of Toruń's townspeople -- to demolish the competitive economic centre at Nieszawa. The king simultaneously decided to relocate the city 32 upstream of Vistula, where Nieszawa exists to this day. The former place, where old Nieszawa existed has never been overbuilt.
Today, the area identified with 15th c. Nieszawa consists of fields on the floodplain terrace in Toruń's Podgórz district. These fields contain a time capsule with undeground relics of a medieval town that existed for only 35 years. Nieszawa, was a town with over a thousand citizens, with a vast town square, carefully designed districts, regular street layout, market spaces, production zones and an impressive embankment-moat fortification system existed in the protective shade of the Dybow Castle as a resilient metropolis on the border between Kingdom of Poland and Teutonic state. Creation of such advanced urban organism required increased effort of the Kingdom. Dynamically developing Nieszawa, has risen during not more than 40 years of existence as a main competition of the Hanseatic Toruń, successfully displacing it's Teutonic rival in river trade.
History of archaeological research
Between 2012-2013, thanks to financial support from the Polish Ministry of Culture and National Heritage and National Heritage Board, the Scientific Association of Polish Archaeologists (Łódź branch) conducted non-invasive archaeological survey that allowed to locate and discover the spatial organisation of the second location of Nieszawa.
The movie presents the achievements of 2 seasons of non-invasive archaeological survey of medieval location of Nieszawa. Due to the work of archaeologists and historians an impressive urban organism emerges from the underground, an organism created in the sole purpose of economic rivalry with the Teutonic Order.
The breaking point in locating the location of medieval Nieszawa were the results of aerial survey conducted during 2001-2011 campaigns by archeologist Wiesław Stępień, who managed to document cropmarks revealing part of the urban layout. Basing on the results of trial excavations conducted by archaeologist Lidia Grzeszkiewicz-Kotlewska (199-2001) a project for non-invasive survey with geophysical methods has been created. During two years magnetic prospection has covered 32 hectares on the extent of over 1,2 kms, which places the survey as the most extensively conducted in Poland so far. Additional soil resistivity measurements have covered 0,5 ha. In 2013 more additional fieldwork has been done with application of magnetic susceptibility measurements, a pioneer survey to the extent of 4 ha. The geophysical survey has been also aided by numerous techniques of aerial archaeology - photographic documentation with UAV drones, aerial prospection of the landscape of Vistula's left bank and innovatory application of termovision. These informations have been complemented with numeric terrain model created with LIDAR ALS data.
Consultations with specialists in the field of medieval urbanisation, dr Jerzy Sikora (Institute of Archaeology, University of Łódź) and dr Michał Starski (Institute of Archaeology, University of Warsaw) resulted in creation of a digital three-dimensional spatial model of old Nieszawa, which sums up the state of knowledge about the city and reconstructs it digitally for the state of 2013's research (the earlier visualization, created after 2012's research is available here: ).
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International Conference: Fin de siècle rediscovered. A mosaic of the turn of the century: artists, events, societies, activities
National Museum in Warsaw, Cinema Hall, 25th-27th of February 2014
26th of February, Wednesday -- Day Two
Session III (16.40-19.20) moderator: Ewa Frąckowiak (National Museum in Warsaw)
Magdalena Czubińska (National Museum in Kraków), Commercial posters (commercial advertising) from Kraków and Lviv until World War I
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Fin de siècle odnaleziony. Mozaika przełomu wieków: artyści, zjawiska, stowarzyszenia, działania
Muzeum Narodowe w Warszawie, Kino MUZ, 25-27 lutego 2014 r.
26 lutego, środa -- Dzień drugi
Sesja III 16.40-19.20 moderator: Ewa Frąckowiak (Muzeum Narodowe w Warszawie)
Magdalena Czubińska (Muzeum Narodowe w Krakowie), Plakaty komercyjne (reklama handlowa) krakowskie i lwowskie do I wojny światowej
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Hermann Parzinger, an well-known archeologist, runs Germany's largest publicly owned art collection -- the Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation. The group has so many treasures, it can't find room enough to display them.
2,000-year-old artefact at the national museum
2,000-year-old artefact at the national museum
Oman’s National Museum has added a 2,000-year old artefact - a tripartite stone - to its collection.
The tripartite stone can be found along the coastal area of the Southern and Eastern Arabian Peninsula, from Hadramout in Yemen to Ras al-Hadd in Oman.
The triangular stone formations are associated with a large circular fire drill dating back to the Late Iron Age.
These formations consist of three vertical flat stones that form a little pyramid, often arranged in rows on the sides of dry waterways and old trade routes.
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PHILIPPINES: The Hidden History of Ancient Kingdoms and Empires
-This video is not an Anti-Hispanic culture documentary and doesn't aim to abolished Hispanic/American culture in Philippines, I think it's important to remember that we need to appreciate every collective culture that history has throwned to the islands of the Philippines, for it would be a monument of the richness of the country, to remind every Filipinos that many great nations with different cultures of the world have fought for it's richness but in the end it was taken back by the Filipino people, and the Filipino people alone. That way they can feel a sense of uniqueness among the other Asian cultures! i don't want this video to be misunderstood
plus it could make Spain and America get away with everything they did while colonizing The Philippines, if Filipinos just erase the culture as if that part of history never happened.
I personally saw it happening today. Some Spanish or even Mexican and Americans people today are rejecting the fact that they did colonized Philippines at all. Why? because Filipinos are destroying every evidence of it from their cultures and architectures[for more info watch: ] thinking they belong to Asia when that is not the case!
Colonial era is already part of Philippine history! and no matter what, history will never change! European cultures is already passed to Philippines and you cannot forced it not to.
Colonial history is the only part of history that has a direct contact with the pre-colonial era as it is the sequel of the story,... if the rejection of colonial evidence(demolishing many heritage cities instead of rebuilding a replicating it) still continues, even history of colonization might even be rejected as a myth and this is very possible.
This Video only aims to let them appreicate the lost Pre-Hispanic cultures too.
The Lost History of Ancient Philippine Kingdoms and Empires, Unknown to present day mainstream Philippine Education. Buried by the destructive sands of time and Sunken by the war waging seas of fate, lies a paradise of melting cultures, The Pearl of the Orient.
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P.S. It's time for Fiilipino's to trace back history and use it! and give it a priority!!
From the time of Negritos, to the arrival of Austronesians to the Ming dynasty to the Arab and Indian era to Spanish and American Colonization, and to the World War 2 and so on!
Filipino culture and History is very beautiful you only need to realize it.
Update: this is not a Chinese propaganda, this video does not claim that China originally owns Philippines including spratlys. watch the whole thing!
[Also Watch old Manila heritage story: Warsaw,Poland(the most damaged city in the world) did replicated it's old beauty and build their heritage structure authentically, so why not Manila? every other city in Metro Manila should be modern with tall skyscrapers like BGC, they're just new cities anyway! but The City of Manila is very very old with a lots of stories to tell, the city should be where we see a glimpse of beautiful past.]
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Poland's WWII Museum Opens Amid Its Uncertain Future
A major World War II museum has opened in northern Poland amid plans by the conservative government to change its content to fit its nationalist views. The Museum of the Second World War in Gdansk was initiated in 2008 by then-Prime Minister Donald Tusk, as a project focused on the suffering of civilians in the global conflict. But the current Law and Justice government, hostile to Tusk, wants to merge it with another museum and change its content to highlight Poland's military effort in fighting the German Nazis. The case is to be decided by a court.
The museum's director said at the ceremony Thursday the huge exhibition places Poland's war experience at the center of Europe's and the world's experiences.
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OLBIA. POLISH ARCHAEOLOGICAL MISSION / 2017
Next archaeological season is over! Apart from continued exploration of the trench dug last year, digging began in two new archaeological squares (50 m2), as a result of which the trench now occupies 150 m2. This year marked the beginning of exploration of the youngest cultural layers, which yielded very interesting results. We unearthed the remains of architectural structures, including stone walls and traces thereof, which, based on the uncovered artefacts, have been provisionally dated between the late 4th and maybe even early 5th c. AD. The tentative assumption is that the unearthed remains of walls most likely date to the period of a Chernyakhov settlement at Olbia.
This year’s archaeological campaign yielded over 300 discrete artefacts. These include fragments (but also entire structures) of ceramic vessels, terracotta artefacts, lamps, glass vessels and beads, stone and metal finds (including a fragment of a marble statue and several dozen coins, respectively). Furthermore, almost 20,000 mass objects were documented in the course of this year’s excavations (mostly fragments of vessels and other clay objects) as well as nearly 3,000 animal bones. The latter included the remains of a beaver, which was somewhat surprising as these animals have previously not been encountered in the immediate surroundings of the site.