“Taking Liberties: the struggle for Britain’s freedom and rights” uncovers the roots of British democracy over a period of more than 900 years. The exhibit will be at the British Library through March 1.

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Power and Glory: Court Arts of China’s Ming Dynasty is at the Indianapolis Museum of Art through January 11.

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The College of Holy Cross announced the completion of the digitization of the Archimedes Palimpsest:
After months of poring over digital photography and initial transcriptions, students gathered in the St. Isidore of Seville Computer Lab at Holy Cross, where they conducted their work, to watch and celebrate as the electronic edition of a 10th century manuscript […]

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The newest linkspage at larsdatter.com is on hair cuts. (For hair styling, see the combs linkspage.)

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Caterina and Maria de’ Medici: Women In Power, featuring “15 spectacular tapestries, all close to five meters in height and devoted to the legendary Queen Artemisia, bear witness to the way in which two Medici queens of France used powerful images to legitimize their claims to rule over warring families and factions,” will be at […]

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“Sgraffito in 3D: Late medieval earthenware as viewed by Joachim Rotteveel” will be at the Museum Bojimans Van Beuningen in Rotterdam, The Netherlands, through January 4.

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We have been sitting in the shade of the ilexes, watching the shadows lengthen and the sun go down for some time before the old man appears, carrying in his hand a huge ancient key. He turns the key in the wards of the old Byzantine lock and, with a great creak, the door opens. […]

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“As outrageous as it might sound, we’re looking for the tomb of Chinggis Khaan,” Dr. Albert Yu-Min Lin, an affiliated researcher for UCSD’s Center for Interdisciplinary Science in Art, Architecture and Archaeology (CISA3), said in a statement to the Xinhua news agency.

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The average Viking lived a life in which spirituality and thoughts of immortality played a far more important part than the rape and pillage more usually associated with his violent race, according to new research. A study of thousands of excavated Viking graves suggests that rituals were performed at the graveside in which stories about […]

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