Secrets of the Medici

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The Medici, the scholars and lovers of art, were patrons of Leonardo, Rapchael, Botticelli, Galileo, Michelangelo, and Cellini and their rule Florence became the intellectual hub of the western world. An excavation of Florence's first family reveals clues of the lifestyles of the rich renaissance and solves the murder mystery and turns up a lost treasure.

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Treasures of Tanis

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The treasures discovered in the late 1930s and early 1940s from the ancient city of Tanis, northeast of Cairo, yielded four gold masks, solid silver coffins, and spectacular jewelry. These royal riches discovered during the World War II are regarded as the one of the greatest archaeological discoveries of all time.

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The well-dressed dead: class still has its privileges in the catacombs of Palermo

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The article describes the ancient catacombs of Palermo's Capuchin monastery, in which the mummies are dressed representative of their rank and placed upright, miming life.

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