Gilded Age grotto mural restored in the nick of time
Updated: 2024-08-31 06:04:47
A rapidly deteriorating 107-year-old ceiling mural on the in the swimming pool grotto of a Gilded Age mansion in Miami will be restored thanks to a $750,000 grant from the National Park Service’s Save America’s Treasures program. The grant is coming in the nick of time, because the mural was made using water-soluble paint on … Read the full post →"Gilded Age grotto mural restored in the nick of time"
The remains of a previously unknown Roman military camp have been discovered at Colm la Runga in Switzerland’s Oberhalbstein Alps at an altitude of 7,218 feet above sea level. It dates to the last two decades of the 1st century B.C. When the camp was built, Roman legions were fighting to conquer the Swiss Alps, … Read the full post →"Roman military camp found high in Swiss Alps"
A handwritten postcard posted through the British Mail in 1903 was delivered to its destination August 16, 2024, 121 years after it was sent. The person it was addressed to was no longer there; in fact, there isn’t even a home there anymore. It’s the headquarters of the Swansea Building Society. Staffers found the postcard … Read the full post →"Postcard delivered 121 years after sending"
A carved animal figurine believed to be a child’s toy has been unearthed at the Fjörður farm mound in Seyðisfjörður, eastern Iceland. The animal looks like a pig to me but archaeologists hypothesize it might also represent a wild boar, a bear or a dog. It was found in the floor layer of a 9th … Read the full post →"Animal figurine found in early Viking settlement in Iceland"