Originally Posted by nydailynews.com A 13-year-old kid delivered a history lesson to the brains at the Metropolitan Museum of Art. On his first trip to the famed museum, Benjamin Lerman Coady detected something was amiss on a 6th century map of the Byzantine Empire. The map purported to show the empire at its peak — but the brainy boy from Connecticut was convinced it was wrong. http://articles.nydailynews.com/2012...politan-museum Originally Posted by Courant.com 13-Year-Old West Hartford Student Tells Metropolitan: 'Your Map Is Wrong' Every so often, a visitor at The Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City questions the accuracy of an exhibit, but Helen Evans, one of the museum's curators, says not all of them are right. Benjamin Lerman Coady, however, was. http://articles.courant.com/2012-05-...merican-museum Moral of the story? Question everything.
Originally Posted by npr.org For Orthodox Easter, Music That Faces East by Anastasia Tsioulcas With the The vocal ensemble Cappella Romana "Back then, both the Byzantines and their neighbors called this empire the Roman Empire. We're talking the seventh to ninth centuries; there were thriving Jewish communities, several Christian factions and a burgeoning Muslim presence. And what we today call the Byzantine Empire was the hub of the universe, says Helen Evans, the curator for Byzantine art at the Metropolitan Museum of Art" Listen here:
Originally Posted by npr.org Archaeologists call an excavation site on Istanbul's southern shore the world's largest shipwreck collection. The area, unearthed during construction of a railway station, was once a Byzantine-era port that harbored cargo and military vessels, and received goods from around the Mediterranean. http://www.npr.org/2012/11/30/166244...surfaces-again Take a look at the ensuing discussion in the comments section below the article. People are learning
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Awesome stuff. We'll probably go to the smithsonian again this year. Won't be hard for me to find errors.
"say hello to the new generation l0l!" Spoiler Alert, click show to read: btw, the last time I visited the military museum in Istanbul...it was littered with silly mistakes! Spoiler Alert, click show to read:
big lols on that last painting...
I'm going to Istanbul in a week... may I ask wich is this museum?