Mouly Surya on Indonesian Period Thriller About Dutch Colonization ‘This City Is a Battlefield' Closing Rotterdam: ‘It's a Shared History'
It is quite an interesting choice for the largest film festival in the Netherlands to close with a film that explicitly ...
Chalmers on Amsterdam's South Side - Focus on History
Chalmers advertised in a spectacular way for a decade with a large lighted sign in the 1920s above New York's Times Square, ...
Map wars in the Middle East: How cartographers charted and helped shape a regional conflict
This is not exclusive to the Middle East – “map wars” are underway across the globe. Some of the more well-known examples ...
The 23 Best Restaurants in Amsterdam
Peanut bucatini at an affordable vegetarian tasting menu spot, local beer and drinking snacks at a decades-old cafe by a canal, fried Surinamese snacks at a weekly market, and more of Amsterdam’s best ...
Archaeologists uncover gold and silver ritual offerings at a 7th century cult site
A recent study by Dr. Jan-Willem de Kort and his colleagues, published in Medieval Archaeology, uncovered an early medieval ...
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Over 84,000 visit Romanian treasure exhibition in the Netherlands before artifacts return home
The collection of gold and silver artifacts from 18 local museums has returned to Romania after being displayed in the exhibition Dacia! Empire of Gold and Silver hosted by the Drents Museum in Assen, ...
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England has some of the filthiest rivers in Europe - and these maps prove it
When the UK joined the EU in the 1970s it was known as the 'dirty man of Europe'. The i Paper looks at the data to see if anything has changed ...
On Today's Date: The Great North Sea Flood Of 1953 Triggered A Sea Change In Europe
From Jan. 31 - Feb. 1, 1953, 72 years ago tonight, a powerful storm with high winds pushed a catastrophic surge of water from ...
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Thieves used explosives to break into Drents Museum and steal four ancient, gold artefacts in the Netherlands
Thieves used explosives to break into Drents Museum and steal four ancient, gold artefacts in the Netherlands The four artefacts were on loan from the National History Museum in Bucharest. CCTV ...
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Explosion rocks Dutch museum before gold masterpieces stolen: "This is a dark day"
A gold Coțofenești helmet on loan from the National History Museum of Romania in Bucharest and three Dacian royal bracelets were stolen by the thieves. The artifacts were on display in an ...
Indonesia showcases returned artifacts it had sought for decades from the Netherlands
Centuries-old stone Buddha statues and precious jewelries repatriated by the Dutch government to its former colony are on display at Indonesia’s National Museum, providing a glimpse into the country’s ...