Once the centre of a mighty trading empire that dominated the eastern Mediterranean, the “Queen of the Adriatic’s” population has been dropping for years and has just dipped beneath the psychologically crucial threshold of 60,000.
The calamitous population decline, due to a lack of jobs and the [...]
Posts Tagged ‘Europe’
15 Nov
Venice stages its own ‘funeral’
27 Oct
A Guide to Germany’s Darkest Places
Beer, bratwurst and lederhosen are an undeniable part of German culture. But so too is the country’s brutal 20th century history. SPIEGEL ONLINE takes you to 10 of the country’s most unsettling sites:
The Vogelsang Fortress — Ideology Cast in Stone
Bundestrasse 266, starting at the German town of Gemünd not far from the border with Belgium, [...]
23 Sep
Bulgarian chosen to head UNESCO
Irina Bokova, Bulgaria’s representative to UNESCO and ambassador in Paris, won Tuesday’s final round of voting to become the next head of the organisation.
Bokova defeated Egyptian culture minister Farouk Hosni in the fifth round, gathering 31 votes in favour against Hosni’s 27 in the Unesco council. Ranked as an outsider at the start of the [...]
18 Sep
Unique golden chariot from Ancient Thrace
An exhibition displaying an absolutely unique golden decoration of a chariot from Ancient Thrace was opened Wednesday in the Mall of Sofia, in the downtown of the Bulgarian capital.
The Thracian chariot in question was technically in fact found in 1976 near the village of Karanovo but no one had realized its existence.
Only at the beginning [...]
6 Sep
Nos ancêtres européens
D’anciennes séquences d’ADN prélevées sur des squelettes archéologiques réservent toujours de nouvelles surprises sur la préhistoire de l’espèce humaine. En 2005, une équipe de chercheurs réunie autour du paléogénéticien Joachim Burger, Université de Mayence, Allemagne, avait déjà révélé que les premiers cultivateurs européens n’étaient pas les ancêtres des Européens d’aujourd’hui. Cette découverte avait de quoi [...]
