The third largest mosque in the world was inaugurated in Algeria
It’s also Africa’s largest, but critics view the mosque as a vanity project for a former president who tried to name it after himself. Al Jazeera reports. Cars drive past the Djamaa El-Djazair or the Great Mosque of Algiers [Anis Belghoul/AP Photo] Algeria has inaugurated the world’s third-largest and Africa’s largest mosque,…
Sensation!? Egypt’s Oldest Papyri Detail Great Pyramid Construction
CHRISTOPHER KLEIN Egypt’s oldest papyrus fragments, which detail the construction of the Great Pyramid of Giza, have gone on public display in Cairo. In 2013, a joint team of French and Egyptian archaeologists discovered a remarkable find in a cave at the ancient Red Sea port of Wadi el-Jarf—hundreds of inscribed papyrus fragments that…
Brazil: 9,000-year-old Human Skeletons and Over 100,000 Artifacts
Surveyors in Brazil were appraising a site identified for the building of a new apartment complex. However, they downed tools, and called in archaeologists when they started finding bones and shards of pottery. Now, a multi-layered archaeological site has been revealed which has yielded 43 human skeletons and in excess of 100,000 artifacts. …

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Необычный рассказ о Сирии и Палестине от телаканала Al Jazeera

Международная телекомпания  Al Jazeera  (штаб-квартира в Дохе, Катар) создала интересные, фото-видео проекты "PALESTINE REMIX. A new way to explore the story of…

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The Discovery of the Ark. Jerusalem

For when Moses had spoken every precept to all the people according to the law, he took the blood of…

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When the doors of Holy Sepulchre Church are opened?

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Храм Гроба Господня закрыли в знак протеста впервые за 100 лет

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By Lucas Peterson The Terracotta Army, built by Emperor Qin Shihuang in the 3rd century B.C., is just one of the…

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Гора Хермон (Ермон). Гора Преображения?

The Transfiguration of Christ, 12th century. Print Collector/Getty Images / Getty Images Согласно церковному Преданию, Преображение Иисуса Христа произошло на…

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The world’s most and least religious countries

By ELLY BLAKE Among the countries where citizens see themselves as religious there is Sri Lanka The countries where citizens seem…

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“Everyone has the right to believe in what they want, but the rights of children come above the right to believe.”

  Religious groups have condemned a bill in Iceland's parliament that would ban circumcision for non-medical reasons. The draft law…

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