There has been a fire in a barracks building at the former Nazi death camp of Majdanek, located in eastern Poland. Some 10,000 shoes belonging to Holocaust victims had been stored there. “The damage to these irreplaceable items is a loss to a site that has such historical value to Europe, Poland, and the Jewish […]

A Thracian temple has been found during excavations at the site of Heraion-Teikhos in western Turkey. “According to the data we have, we thought that the temple burned down in a fire. We have so far removed statues of gods including Kybele, Eros and Aphrodite as well as bronze coins, amphora and similar pieces from […]