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Fort Bard
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⚫Located in the Aosta Valley region of northwestern Italy.
⚫The current fortifications were built by Charles Albert of Savoy between 1830 and 1838.
⚫It replaced a 10th-century castle that had, itself, been built on an earlier structure founded by Theodoric I in the 5th century.
⚫On May 14, 1800, a 40,000-strong French army was stopped by 400 Austro-Piedmontese soldiers at Fort Bard.
⚫The Fort Bard is formed of three main defence stations positioned at different levels upon a high imposing rock spur, the lowest at 400m above ground and the highest at 467m.
⚫There are a total of 283 rooms in the entire fortress.
⚫In 2006 it reopened to tourists as the Museum of the Alps, it has additional art exhibitions and galleries.
⚫In the summer, the main courtyard is used to host musical and theatrical performances.
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Dolia
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⚫Dolia were large vases or vessels used in ancient Roman times for storage or transportation of goods.
⚫It was a very large jug or container made of fired clay.
⚫Oval in shape, with a wide mouth and rim, it had no neck or handles and, in many cases, could measure up to six feet in height.
⚫Some dolia have a rounded body tapering into a flat bottom, while more frequently, dolia maintained a rounded bottom.
⚫They were lined with pitch or wax in order to contain or process liquids and solid foods.
Dolia were also used in a thermopolium (plural thermopolia), a place where it was possible to purchase ready-to-eat food.
⚫Thermopolia being the forerunners of today’s restaurant, the items served are sometimes compared to modern fast food.
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Black basalt statue of a priest of Bastet Padimahes holding a stele of Horus on the crocodiles and covered in magical formulas.
⚫30th Dynasty, (380BC to 300BC).
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Cleopatra’s underwater Palace
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⚫Located on the island of Antirhodos, in Alexandria’s Eastern Harbour , Egypt.
⚫Cleopatra VII was the last active ruler of the Ptolemaic Kingdom of Egypt, she committed suicide in (10 or 12 August 30 BC).
⚫Cleopatra’s palace was submerged
Probably a few centuries after Cleopatra’s reign (1500 years ago) due to a terrible earthquake and a huge tsunami in Egypt.
⚫In 1998 the remains of the ancient city and Cleopatra’s spectacular palace were found.
⚫Within this palace complex incredible intact artefacts were discovered : coins, pottery, vases, basins, statues, columns, marble floors and more.
⚫So far, 20,000 ancient objects have been discovered.
⚫One of the most impressive finds brought to the surface was 1 of 2 large granite Sphinx’s guarding the entrance of a small temple.
⚫Other exciting finds include a very grand statue of the Egyptian god Isis and a gigantic stone head believed to be of Caesarion, the son of Cleopatra and her lover Julius Caesar.
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Mousa Broch
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⚫Located on the island of Mousa in Shetland, Scotland.
⚫It is the tallest broch still standing and amongst the best-preserved prehistoric buildings in Europe.
⚫It is thought to have been constructed c. 100 BC, and is one of about 500 brochs built in Scotland.
⚫It stands at 13.3 metres (44 ft) and its walls are 4.5 meters (15 ft) thick.
⚫The entrance is at the ground level, and it has a staircase that goes all the way to the top.
⚫The stair begins at the second level and is reached by a doorway from inside.
⚫The borch of mousa appears twice in Norse sagas. One recounts how an eloping couple took a shelter here after a shipwreck in 900 AD.
⚫The second Saga, the Orkneyinga Saga, tells a story about the Earl Harald Maddadsson who sieged the broch in 1153 because his mother was abducted and held inside.
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A pre-Viking woolen tunic found beside a thawing glacier in south Norway shows how global warming is proving something of a boon for archaeology

The greenish-brown, loose-fitting outer clothing - suitable for a person up to about 176 cms (5 ft 9 inches) tall - was found 2,000 meters (6,560 ft) above sea level on what may have been a Roman-era trade route in south Norway.

Carbon dating showed it was made around 300 AD.

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A Viking mitten dating from 800 AD and an ornate walking stick, a Bronze age leather shoe, ancient bows, and arrow heads used to hunt reindeer are also among 1,600 finds in Norway’s southern mountains since [global warming] thaws accelerated in 2006.

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The archaeologists said the tunic showed that Norway’s Lendbreen glacier, where it was found, had not been so small since 300 AD. When exposed to air, untreated ancient fabrics can disintegrate in weeks because of insect and bacteria attacks.