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Scientists rebuild the face of 400-year-old Polish ‘vampire’

November 2, 2024133 Views

Buried with a padlock on her foot and an iron sickle across her neck, "Zosia" was never supposed to be able to come back from the dead. Entombed in an unmarked cemetery in Pien, northern Poland, the young woman was one of dozens feared by her neighbours to have been a "vampire". Now, using DNA, 3D printing and modelling clay, a team of scientists has reconstructed Zosia's 400-year-old face, revealing the human story buried by supernatural beliefs. "It's really ironic, in a way," said Swedish archaeologist Oscar Nilsson. "These people burying her, they did everything they could in order to prevent her from coming back from the dead... we have done everything we can in order to bring her back to life." Zosia, as she was named by locals, was found in 2022 by a team of archaeo...

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Warsaw opens a new modern art museum leaving the communist legacy behind

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October 25, 2024160 Views

A modern art museum designed by American architect Thomas Phifer opens its doors in the Polish capital Friday — a minimalist, light-filled structure that is meant to be a symbol of openness and tolerance as the city tries to free itself from its communist legacy. The Museum of Modern Art in Warsaw sits like a bright white box on a major city street. Inside, a monumental staircase with geometric lines rises to upper floors, where large windows flood the gallery rooms with light. City and museum officials say the light and open spaces are meant to attract meetings and debate — and become a symbol of the democratic era that Poland embraced when it threw off authoritarian communist rule 35 years ago. Warsaw Mayor Rafał Trzaskowski said the museum’s opening is a “historic moment f...

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Priceless painting looted by Nazis returns to Poland from Japan

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May 31, 2023781 Views

A priceless 16th century Italian painting that was looted by Nazi Germany during World War II and discovered in Japan has been returned to Poland, authorities in Warsaw said Wednesday. The “Madonna with Child” attributed to Alessandro Turchi, is the latest of some 600 looted artistic pieces that Poland has successfully repatriated. More than 66,000 so-called war losses remain unaccounted for. The painting was handed over during a ceremony at Poland’s Embassy in Tokyo Wednesday. Culture Minister Piotr Glinski told reporters in Warsaw that the baroque painting was on the Nazis’ list of the 521 most valuable pieces of art among the tens of thousands of artworks that they looted when they occupied Poland between 1939-45. This handout picture provided by the Polish Institute in Tokyo ...

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Poles pedal to power outdoor cinema to save energy and cost

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September 3, 20221008 Views

For Marek Kaszewek, 63, there's no better way to spend a Friday evening than watching a film, riding a bike and doing something good for the planet all at once. "We are learning how to operate in a new world," he told Reuters as he pedaled a static bike with an eye on a screen showing him how much charge he was generating to show a film in Warsaw's central Pole Mokotowskie park. "It's important to find a way to continue helping our planet." A board showing how much energy in watts is made by people who pedal stationary bikes and generate up to 50% of the energy at a pop-up outdoor cinema in a park in Warsaw, Poland September 2, 2022. REUTERS/Kacper Pempel He was one of dozens of Poles who showed up at the event to watch the film "Knives Out". A row of bikes had been set up beh...

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Threat to one of Europe’s last primeval forests

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February 8, 2022743 Views

Organisations ask EU to stop Poland building wall on border with Belarus More than 150 non-governmental organisations are asking the European Commission to intervene to halt the construction of a wall on the Polish-Belarusian border running through protected areas, including one of Europe's last primeval forests. Poland started building a 186 km (115.6 mile) metal barrier in January to deter migrants after nearly 40,000 people from the Middle East, Afghanistan and Africa tried to cross from Belarus last year. FILE PHOTO: A herd of bison is seen on the field during migrant crisis on Belarusian Polish border, near Hajnowka, Poland, January 26, 2022. REUTERS/Kacper Pempel The barrier will run through several protected Natura 2000 areas, including the Bialowieza Forest, a UNESCO W...

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Poles go underground for COVID treatment in UNESCO-listed salt mine

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March 1, 2021579 Views

A UNESCO World Heritage site in Poland is being used to help people recover from COVID-19, with patients going deep underground in the Wieliczka salt mine to a therapeutic centre dealing with respiratory illness. Famous for its ornate underground chapels carved from salt, the Wieliczka mine, located just outside the southern city of Krakow, is one of Poland’s biggest tourist attractions, drawing around 1.8 million visitors in 2019. But doctors say the micro-climate in the mine, which stretches as far as 327 metres underground, also helps people with pulmunory problems. Magdalena Kostrzon, a doctor working at the mine, told Reuters that patients with respiratory illnesses have been coming there since the 19th century. “The underground micro-climate is, above all, characteri...