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There’s a hole in the middle of Prague, and we want you to know what’s
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Current AffairsHistorians make exceptional find, uncovering wreckage of WW II fighterplane
Historians in South Bohemia last Friday the 13th dug up the exceptionally
well-preserved wreckage of a German fighter jet shot down during World War
II. The Fw-190 Focke-Wulf, of which almost 20,000 were originally produced,
went down near the village of Otín. The plane was one of several targeted
by US pilots on August 24th, 1944 in what was one of the biggest air
battles over Bohemia. The German pilot, Hubert Engst, ejected in time and
would survive the war. But the aircraft itself smashed into the ground and
remained lost and forgotten until now. More
Czech HistoryStone Age grave none the less queer for lack of ‘Gay Caveman’
The bustling Dejvice district of Prague is not where you would expect major
encounters with prehistory. Just a few hundred metres from the transport
hub at Vítězné Náměstí though, archaeologists are sifting through the
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environs have always been inhabited. In the case of the dig at Terronská
Street, by the enigmatic Corded Ware culture some 5,000 years ago. My guide
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Current AffairsExplosives experts unearth huge stash of WWII ammunition
A stretch of forestland in South Bohemia has been closed to the public
after a hunter stumbled across a stash of WWII ammunition there a week ago.
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Current AffairsAncient site yields signs of cooperation between Roman army and Germanic tribe
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been home to Celtic, Germanic and other tribes before the coming of the
Slavs. One of the places that has been yielding more information about
those peoples is the area around Pasohlávky, on the Dyje River.
Archaeologists have spent years there studying the remains of a military
camp built by Roman invaders in what was then the domain of the Germanic
Marcomanni. This week, the scientific team working at the site announced
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Science JournalScience Journal
There’s a hole in the middle of Prague, and we want you to know what’s
in it. The early 1980s metro station at Národní třída is the scene of a
fascinating archaeological dig that we’ll be visiting in this month’s
Science Journal.
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teacher is running in the autumn local elections even though he is dead.
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Current AffairsFind proves main Czech pilgrimage site Velehrad was settled at time of Great Moravian Empire, say archaeologists
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that the Czech Republic’s most important pilgrimage site was inhabited
during the era of the Great Moravian Empire; pieces of ceramic material
found during a dig at Velehrad are being seen as proof that it was indeed
settled in the 9th century.
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A functionalist public restroom in the city of Brno may soon receive
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