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14 februari 2018

Revisiting The Golden Temple

[su_dropcap style=”simple”]D[/su_dropcap]oes a landscape write its own history? Standing in the fields just south of Gamla (Old) Uppsala, looking north one early morning in June, you realize that this place, one of the largest archaeological sites in northern Europe
19 oktober 2017

These miserable old stories

It is the end of March. I am wandering around the medieval part of the city of Rhodes – which is somewhat lazily called the Old Town. The narrow streets are eerily deserted and will remain so for some time.
17 oktober 2017

An Ordinary Young Woman

  A few days after Beethoven’s funeral, his friend Karl Holz found a secret compartment in one of the composer’s cupboards. There he found, aside from seven shares in the Austrian national bank and Beethoven’s now famous and heartbreakingly sad
15 oktober 2017

The amazing discovery of Atlantis

  In December 1674 Olof Rudbeck wrote to university chancellor Count Magnus Gabriel De la Gardie intimating that he had made a startling discovery, a discovery by which everything else he had shown De la Gardie would pale into insignificance.