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  1. Armatus
    Armatus
    Quote 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
    Quote 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.
  2. Armatus
    Armatus
    Quote 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:

  3. Armatus
    Armatus
    Quote 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
  4. Bolkonsky
    Bolkonsky
    Victory!
  5. Magister Militum Flavius Aetius
    Magister Militum Flavius Aetius
    Awesome stuff. We'll probably go to the smithsonian again this year. Won't be hard for me to find errors.
  6. matmohair1
    matmohair1
    "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: 

  7. Armatus
    Armatus
    big lols on that last painting...
  8. Julio85
    Julio85
    I'm going to Istanbul in a week... may I ask wich is this museum?
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