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De Roemeense gouden helm die werd gestolen bij de kunstroof in het Drents Museum in Assen, is gevonden. In de oude statenzaal van de provincie in Assen staan zwaarbewapende mannen rond een vitrine waarin de helm en ook twee van de drie gestolen armbanden te bewonderen zijn. „De helm is licht ingedeukt, maar dat is te herstellen.”
Vanwege nieuwe ontwikkelingen in het onderzoek naar de roof van Roemeense kunstschatten uit het Drents Museum in Assen organiseert het Openbaar Ministerie vanmiddag een persbijeenkomst in Assen. Of de gouden helm van Cotofenesti en de drie gouden armbanden terecht zijn, wil het OM nog niet bevestigen.
The Dutch police have recovered the Helmet of Cotofenesti, stolen from the Drents Museum in Assen in January last year, Arthur Brand announced on X. Sources also told Dagblad van het Noorden and RTL Nieuws that the stolen treasures have been recovered
Researchers sequenced the genomes of 54 grape seeds dating from the Bronze Age to the medieval period. A 600-year-old grape seed from northern France is genetically identical to grapes used today to make pinot noir wine.
Roman-era genomes reflect long-distance exchange from Iberian, Balkan, Levantine, and Caucasian domesticated varieties.
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/ancient-grape-pinot-noir-wine-found-toilet-medieval-hospital-france/
Ancient DNA reveals 4000 years of grapevine diversity, viticulture and clonal propagation in France.
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-026-70166-z
The seed reveals that people in France have been cultivating the popular variety of grape since at least the 1400s, scientists say.
Archaeologists from Warsaw University discovered several shipwrecks near a shallow rock formation at the ancient Greek port of Ptolemais, off the coast of Libya.
Archaeologists from the University of Warsaw have uncovered a more than 100-metre-long strip of ancient shipwreck remains near the port of Ptolemais in current-day Libya, indicating multiple maritime disasters occurred along the route to the city, researchers said.
Hag Pesach Sameach, Happy Passover
A family by the Seder table, from the Barcelona Haggadah,Catalonia, 1340. The Haggadah is a service book read during Seder, a ritual feast which takes place on the eve of Passover to commemorate and reenact the Exodus of the Israelites from Egypt.
Members of a synagogue in Salford have made a plea after two scrolls, referred to as Sifrei Torah plurally and Sefer Torah, were stolen from their shul. The scrolls were taken by three men at around 5.30am on Friday (March 20).
