Expedition Journal

«Expedition» is a scientific journal that offers a view of the world of science through the lens of a camera! Official German media.

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How many stories remain untold...

📍In photos across Europe, you can see that mountains were clearly developed industrially.

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The largest Maya museum in the world.

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🔴 The largest museum in the world — Maya

In 2019, together with the Expedition Corps, we explored the world's largest museum of the Maya people in the city of Mérida (Mexico). But what we saw there gave us some certain thoughts.

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But this is Mexico (not Europe) and the world's largest Maya museum (not of European culture)? This was the second oddity of this museum, but not the last...

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🔴 The largest museum in the world — Maya

In 2019, together with the Expedition Corps, we explored the world's largest museum of the Maya people in the city of Mérida (Mexico). But what we saw there gave us some certain thoughts.

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It was an impressive-sized cross with a cloth hanging on it, somewhat reminiscent of a traditional Ukrainian "rushnyk" (embroidered towel).

Next, we were greeted by a figure resembling a maiden that you might encounter in European temples.

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Street of San Gimignano

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The "Kim" copy in Cornell University's collection was created over 90 years ago, in 1925, and is considered part of a series of books with a "revealing" picture on the edge: with a slight bend of the page block, a picturesque landscape appears 🤩

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📹📚In the video, an archivist from the archival department of Cornell University showcases a 1925 edition of Rudyard Kipling's novel "Kim."

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This technique, practiced in England for centuries, was especially popular from the 17th–18th centuries onward; one of the renowned artists in this genre is Caroline Billin Currie, who signed approximately 175 works.

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The only thing scholars are certain of is that the artifact definitely belongs to ancient Egyptian culture. And its primary purpose is rituals during burial and appeals to the gods.

📸Taken during the Dutch expedition, December 2021

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This item is located in a Dutch archaeological museum and is an alabaster disk weighing 75 kg.

🔹It has been known for over 200 years, but throughout this time, its exact original purpose has never been definitively determined.

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San Gimignano

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Among the sunlit hills of the Elsa Valley, surrounded by the magnificent hills of Siena, rises the remarkable Italian town of San Gimignano. Its medieval quarters are visible above the thirteenth-century walls, within which history has stood still...

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"In truth, there is no greater key than a wise man, for he who possesses knowledge will always be respected and loved".
— Don Luis Pacheco de Narváez

#quoteoftheday #wisdom

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San Gimignano

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Among the sunlit hills of the Elsa Valley, surrounded by the magnificent hills of Siena, rises the remarkable Italian town of San Gimignano. Its medieval quarters are visible above the thirteenth-century walls, within which history has stood still...

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Interesting fact about San Gimignano:

Each resident considered it their duty to build a tower taller than their neighbor's, thereby proving the greatness of their status over all others.

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Among the sunlit hills of the Elsa Valley, surrounded by the magnificent hills of Siena, rises the remarkable Italian town of San Gimignano. Its medieval quarters are visible above the thirteenth-century walls, within which history has stood still...

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The expeditionary corps explored the knightly town in Tuscany - San Gimignano - as part of the Florentine Expedition 2019.

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Among the sunlit hills of the Elsa Valley, surrounded by the magnificent hills of Siena, rises the remarkable Italian town of San Gimignano. Its medieval quarters are visible above the thirteenth-century walls, within which history has stood still...

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Venice is the cradle of knightly orders, and its architecture speaks more eloquently than any written book.