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Swedish football fans gather to follow the third place game as their team faces Australia in the Women's World Cup 2023. IMAGES
Rome, Feb 21 (EFE) .- (Camera: Jorge Ortiz) Several archaeologists have found, in the heart of the Roman Forum, a sarcophagus and altar from the 6th century BC in the place where the ancient Romans believed Romulus was buried.FOOTAGE OF THE ROMAN FORUM.SOUNDBITES OF THE COORDINATOR OF THE EXCAVATION. PATRIZIA FORTINI.Translation:1.- "In this structure, we have verified the effective existence of a bay with two elements, one with a sarcophagus and a circular element that had been represented on a 1900 map that explains the excavations of Giacomo Boni in that period." 2.- "The importance is that we are surely in front of a monument, which having been saved and being in a special context such as the Piazza xx, must have a value in itself. It surely represents a memorial, it has a symbolic value of this reality that we don't understand yet."
A 17th-century oil sketch, believed to contain the fingerprints of the Dutch artist Rembrandt van Rijn, will go under the hammer in London next week. As the prints were found on the original work, there is a high chance he was handling it while the paint was still wet. The painting is estimated to fetch up to £8 million pounds (€8.9 million; $10 million).
In their quest for proof, UFO watchers have turned their attention to a 17th-century Georgian fresco of Jesus Christ’s crucifixion in the Svetitskhoveli Cathedral in Mtskheta, because of two strange objects painted in the upper part of the Byzantine style painting which look suspiciously like flying saucers. Artist Grigorii Guldzhavarashvili depicted two semicircular objects with three tails just under the hands of Jesus, and they are at the center of the speculation.
Hundreds of people gathered on the banks of the River Thames in London, Sunday, to watch as flames devoured a nearly 400 foot long wooden sculpture of 17th century London to mark the 350th anniversary of the Great Fire of London.
A team of divers in say they have discovered treasure that could have belonged to the infamous 17th-Century Scottish pirate Captain William Kidd.
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