King Louis IX of France was kind, fair, popular, and the only French king ever to be made a saint.
The Norwich Inquest has declared that a silver-gilded knob discovered by a metal detector enthusiast two years ago is treasure. The knob has a cast animal head and dates to the 6th or 7th century. Find out more in the piece at the Norfolk News.
In a cave in Wadi al-Zahab, Syria, a team of archaeologists have discovered three tombs dating to the Byzantine era. The tombs were found by the Homs Museums and Antiquities Department in central Syria during excavations made by the General Establishment for Water Studies to keep off floods. Find out more in the item at DNA India.
An Irish cemetery in County Donegal, discovered in 2003, has yielded some fascinating medical data about the inhabitants of Ireland from more than 1,000 years ago. Findings have revealed evidence of cystic fibrosis, TB, cancer, multiple exostoses (bumpy bone disease) and even brain surgery, which the patient survived.
In case this seems familiar, another cemetery was uncovered just last week in Ireland; but that one was in County Kildare.
Find out more about the County Donegal cemetery in the article by Donal Thornton at Irish Central.
A Hebrew Bible, published between 1516 and 1517, has been returned to its rightful owners after 71 years. The two-volume, black-leather-clad book, which includes commentaries by key medieval rabbinic figures, vanished from a library in Vienna on the night of November 10-11, 1938: Kristallnacht, the "night of broken glass." It surfaced at the New York City auction house Kestenbaum & Company in June; upon learning of its provenance, the auction house terminated the sale and its owner, who had not known its history, agreed to return it to Vienna. The Bible was repatriated to the Jewish community in Vienna at a ceremony at the Museum of Jewish Heritage, attended by representatives of the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement ( ICE ), the U.S. Attorney's office, and the Israelitische Kultusgemeinde Wien ( IKG ).
Find out more in the article at Media Newswire.
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