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Archaeologists unearth rare Renaissance-Baroque brew house in ‘Czech Paradise’
Archaeologists have unveiled a rare Renaissance-Baroque brew house in the depths of Kost Castle, itself an architectural jewel in the “Bohemian Paradise” region. The tiny…
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Czech National Library scrambles to save thousands of books at risk of decay
Over 90 percent of books in the Czech National Library printed after the year 1800 are threatened with destruction caused by acid, which has been forming in the paper over…
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Restorers use sugar to preserve 7000-year-old prehistoric well
Czech archaeologists are using plain white sugar to preserve what may be the oldest wooden structure ever discovered in Europe – a water well made of oak trees felled some…
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The First Defenestration of Prague - what was it and why did it happen?
600 years ago, an angry crowd stormed Prague’s New Town Hall and threw its councillors out of the window. The event, which has since become known as the First…
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Czechs are predominantly descendants of pre-Slavic populations, says archaeogenetics expert
The interdisciplinary study of archaeology and genetics can bring about many new discoveries, some of which have helped shed new light on periods previously clouded in…
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A legend set in stone: Šemík the talking horse, saviour of Sir Horymír
In days of yore, when the greedy pagan Prince Křesomysl reigned over the Czech lands from the ancient Prague castle at Vyšehrad, he forced peasants to abandon their…
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Czech docu-film ‘Ticket to the Moon’ sheds light on universal aspirations across Cold War divides
In the early days of space travel, years before the Apollo 11 mission, an Austrian journalist walked into a travel office in Vienna asking to reserve a flight to the Moon…
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3D-generated replica of missing Masaryk statue to debut at Brno’s International Engineering Fair
Countless statues of Tomáš Garrique Masaryk, the founding father of Czechoslovakia and the country’s first president, were erected in town squares in the first two decades…
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Veteran wooden Ostrava tram being spruced up for its centenary
Although many people today crave the latest technology, there is a persistent, strong fascination with “veterans” – old-timey cars, trams and busses which appear on the…
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Moon landing: the Czech experience
The 1969 moon landing glued millions of people around the world to their TV sets 50 years ago. For Czechs and Slovaks, this historic event had a special, bittersweet…
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Remnants of medieval wall dating back to 1041 unearthed in Břeclav
Preparatory work for the reconstruction of Břeclav Castle has unearthed a rare archaeological find –the remains of a medieval wall from the beginning of the 11th century…
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Gene Deitch, Part 2: On Pete Seeger, US Communists in Czechoslovakia and Prague’s transformation
Animator Gene Deitch settled in Prague almost 60 years ago and directed Tom and Jerry and Popeye cartoons behind the Iron Curtain for the US market. The small number of…
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