It's the first of the month and so the new qualifications for the month of June begin. Even though the fields are full of grain, we have been blessed with a lot of beautiful things. I'd like to say that I don't see any clear favourite, but it would be the same as always...
So the preparation for the service to the cradle of Hussitism, South Bohemia, is over. The trunk of the car filled with material up to three times its maximum and just one last thing...
The most famous prisoner of Špilberk, the commander of the Pandurs, Baron František Trenck, died on 4 October 1749. He was buried in the tomb of the Capuchin monastery in Brno, where his body was naturally mummified. The exhibition Baron Trenck: The Mystery of the Mummy summarises the results of research by a team of specialists using the most modern methods of forensic anthropology, forensic medicine and molecular biology.
In May we got a good portion of finds and some of them are literally from the category of dreams, despite the fact that it is a very sad time for polers (like me).
In the ancient city of Lydda (today's Lod) near Tel Aviv, a rare silver treasure was discoveredand bronze coins from the period of the last Jewish revolt against Roman rule. The coins, dating from between 221 and 354, were found during excavations of the ruins of a public building dating from the late Roman and early Byzantine periods, the first evidence of a Jewish uprising in the city...
We would like to introduce a new LP. Detektory Mlejnský s.r.o has become a dealer of Helikon-Tex in the Czech Republic and Slovakia. In the coming weeks we will be adding all clothing and equipment from the company whose products we have been using for many years.
Last autumn, archaeologists from the Hungarian National Museum discovered the remains of a three-aisled basilica of a former Benedictine abbey and an older rotunda during a test excavation. This year they returned to the site in Tomajmonostora in eastern Hungary with the aim of thoroughly investigating the site. In the process, they found a medieval grave from the 13th to 14th centuries with the skeletal remains of a man holding a silver chalice and a communion bowl.