Right next to the geographical center of Klaipėda, the historic Sendvaris complex is coming back to life. Over five years, the abandoned area next to the market has changed beyond recognition,…
Thieves broke into the museum for gold but underestimated one of the most valuable treasure items. Among the stolen artifacts dating back thousands of years was a simple, rusted bracelet…
As the Berlin Wall was falling, political scientist Francis Fukuyama declared that history, as a struggle of political ideas, had come to an end. It supposedly ended with the triumph of liberal democracy and now…
The Science and Encyclopaedia Publishing Centre (MELC) of the Martynas Mažvydas National Library of Lithuania has prepared and published exceptional, valuable books for Lithuanian readers this summer,…
Archaeologists, finishing excavations in Roman-era (4th–5th century AD) cemeteries in southern Poland, near Żurawina, encountered a sensation. Just before the end of the work, they noticed a circular…
U.S. President Donald Trump on Friday requested the Smithsonian Institution to install monuments of George Washington.
U.S. President Donald Trump on Friday requested the Smithsonian Institution to install monuments of George Washington.
2 years ago, on September 11, 2001, just before midnight in Brooklyn, New York, Polish immigrant Henryk Siwiak was killed. He became the last known person to die in the terrorist attacks…
In Egypt, in Saqqara, archaeologists discovered a tomb approximately 4,400 years old, whose colorful reliefs and decorations have remained in very good condition. Some scenes have preserved until now…
The publishing house “Briedis” presents the book “Old East Prussia” by German writer and journalist Arno Surminski (b. 1934). This album, illustrated with numerous photographs, takes us to the region…
