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Encuentran una espada de la Edad del Bronce de hace más de 3.000 años en el fondo de un lago italiano y todavía conserva el filo

Una espada de bronce que llevaba más de tres mil años en el fondo de un lago ha salido a la superficie con el filo todavía cortante. La han recuperado los arqueólogos subacuáticos de la Soprintendenza de Viterbo en el lago di Mezzano, un pequeño lago de origen volcánico del Lacio, la región italiana donde […]

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Sword From the Age of Ramesses II Pulled From an Italian Volcanic Lake Still Has a Sharp Edge

A bronze sword that spent more than three thousand years underwater has come out of an Italian lake with its edge still sharp. Underwater archaeologists from the Soprintendenza of Viterbo (the state body that protects archaeological heritage in each Italian province) recovered it from Lake Mezzano, a small volcanic lake in Lazio, the region around […]

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The Field That Was India Inside Bangladesh Inside India Inside Bangladesh — The World’s Only “Russian Doll” Territory Vanished in 2015

For decades, one of the oddest spots on the world’s political map was a patch of farmland roughly the size of a soccer pitch. It was called Dahala Khagrabari (enclave number 51) and it belonged to India. It sat inside a piece of Bangladesh, which lay inside a pocket of Indian territory, which was itself […]

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Luis Har, former Israeli hostage in Gaza: ‘If it had been only up to our government, we would still be there’

Luis Har, at the headquarters of the Hostages and Missing Families Forum in Tel Aviv, in 2024.

Luis Har (Buenos Aires, 73) squeezes in a break during his vacation at a hotel in Eilat, a tourist city on the shores of the Red Sea at Israel’s southernmost tip. It is the clearest evidence of the upheaval — from anonymous citizen to a public figure who travels constantly — his life has undergone since October 7, 2023, when Hamas took him hostage in its massive surprise attack, along with his partner, Clara Marman, and three of her relatives, at a kibbutz near Gaza, Nir Yitshak. All five held dual Argentine and Israeli nationality.

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Dahala Khagrabari, el único enclave del mundo “dentro de otro enclave dentro de otro enclave”, desapareció en 2015

Durante décadas, uno de los lugares más raros del mapa político del mundo fue una parcela de cultivo de menos de una hectárea. Se llamaba Dahala Khagrabari (enclave número 51), pertenecía a India y estaba rodeada por un trozo de Bangladés, que a su vez estaba dentro de una bolsa de territorio indio, que a […]

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