The fashion house Fendi has sponsored a two-year restoration of the Grotto of Diana at the Villa d’Este, a Renaissance villa that belonged to a cardinal in the Catholic Church who decorated his vast estate with many depictions of classical myth.
Arts & Culture
“Oracles, Omens, and Answers” explores history of divination from tarot to TikTok
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A new exhibit at the University of Oxford’s Bodleian Library explores thousands of years of practices in divination and prediction, from oracle bones to horoscope apps – and even includes demonstrations of the spider divination carried out by the Mambila people of Cameroon and Nigeria.
Arts & Culture
Danish museum returns a Roman emperor’s head to Turkey
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A bronze head of the Roman emperor Septimus Severus, illegally trafficked from a shrine where he had been worshiped as a deity in antiquity, will be repatriated from Denmark to Turkey.
Arts & Culture
Reykjavík unveils the manuscripts that gave us Norse mythology
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A new exhibition of medieval Icelandic manuscripts showcases the earliest versions of many core texts of Norse mythology and Icelandic literature, including the Poetic Edda and the Saga of the Greenlanders, which details the Norse discovery of the New World.
Europe
Mother Goddess Phrygian religious structures suggest a 250,000-year history
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Archaeologists in central Türkiye have unveiled remarkable finds at Midas Castle, shedding new light on the religious practices of the ancient Phrygians.
Culture
Reviving the Past: The Recreating the Aurochs’ Effect
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Tauros, bred to resemble extinct aurochs, are reintroduced to Europe, restoring ecological balance and connecting us to ancient heritage.