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☆ Sümela, Turkey: The ancient monastery hanging from a cliff
▼ + stars: | 2024-09-14 | by ( Joe Yogerst | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +10 min

CNN retains full editorial control over subject matter, reporting and frequency of the articles and videos within the sponsorship, in compliance with our policyCNN —If its ancient walls could talk, Sümela Monastery in eastern Turkey would have quite a few stories to tell. “The Virgin Mary is a holy person for the Muslim people also. “The sultans considered Sümela a sacred place and helped the monastery by giving the monks donations and more land,” he adds. Sümela was popular with Christian and Muslim pilgrims, and an active Greek Orthodox monastery, until the early 20th century. Many of the Greeks living in the Pontic Alps and nearby Black Sea coast chose to relocate to Greece, including the monks of Sümela Monastery.

Persons: “ We’ve, Levent Alniak, Senol Aktaş, Virgin Mary, Sümela, Jesus, Mary, St, Ignatius, Öznur, who’s, Sümela’s, Barnabas, Sophronios, Luke the, ” Alniak, Soumela Organizations: CNN, Ottomans, Turkish, Rock Church, Turkey’s Ministry of Culture and Tourism, van, Turkish Airlines, Ramada Plaza, Radisson Locations: Sümela, Turkey, Roman, Trabzon province, “, Sofia, Istanbul, Ottoman, Black, Greece, Sümela Monastery, Altindere, Nea Sumela, Constantinople, Altındere, Trabzon, Coşandere

☆ At This Photography Festival, the Camera Points Below the Surface
▼ + stars: | 2024-07-11 | by ( Emily Labarge | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

Deep beneath the town hall in Arles, France, past some unassuming service counters and down several flights of narrow steps, the artist Sophie Calle has buried some things that she can’t bear to part with. This year’s edition of the Rencontres, which runs through Sept. 29, is titled “Beneath the Surface,” and Calle’s contribution takes place in a labyrinthine series of underground caverns bisected by long arched balustrades. The shadowy walkways and damp, moldy atmosphere are ideal for her project, in which she displays works from her storeroom that were damaged in a storm. Advised by restorers to destroy them, she decided instead to give them a subterranean afterlife. And so, the works are now “buried” in Arles, where they continue to decompose, but have not, at least, been forsaken.

Persons: Sophie Calle, restorers, ” Locations: Arles, France

☆ Here's what it would take to restore the rusted remains of a 1954 Ferrari purchased for $2 million to its glory days
▼ + stars: | 2023-08-20 | by ( Lloyd Lee | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +5 min

Scraps of a rare 1954 Ferrari 500 Mondial Spider Series I were just sold for about $1.9 million. The buyer could end up investing another $2 million just to restore the car, a Ferrari expert said. In "very good condition," the model can be worth up to $4 million to $5.5 million, the expert said. The remnants of a Ferrari 500 Mondial Spider Series I were recently sold at RM Sotheby's auction for about $1.9 million, and it may take another $2 million just to restore the car to its glory racing days, a Ferrari historian told Insider. "A Ferrari 500 Mondial Spider Pinin Farina in restored or at least very good condition is currently in the wide range between $4M and $5.5M," Birner wrote.

Persons: Pinin Farina, Franco Cortese, Cortese, Walter Medlin, Sotheby's, What's, Andreas Birner, Birner, Ferrari's, Ferrari, … Organizations: Morning, RM, Pininfarina, Ferrari, Mondial, Mille, Sotheby's, Ferraris, New York Times, The Times Locations: Italian, Italy, Maranello

CNN —Construction workers have unearthed a white marble head in the historic center of Rome, the city’s mayor has revealed on social media. It said that the head was found on the eastern side of the area currently being worked on. “The newly found head, of elegant craftsmanship, sculpted in Greek marble, probably belongs to a statue of a female divinity, perhaps Aphrodite, of natural dimensions. He explained that the head was unearthed, intact, in the foundation of a late antique wall. The head was found to be in the foundations of this wall.

Persons: Roberto Gualtieri, Roma, Piazza Augusto Imperatore, ” Gualtieri, Augustus, Aphrodite, ”, Claudio Parisi Presicce, Parisi Presicce, conservators Organizations: CNN, Roma Press, Roma Locations: Rome, Piazza, ”

☆ Village garbage man helped unearth ancient bronze statues in Tuscany
▼ + stars: | 2023-06-02 | by ( Alvise Armellini | ) www.reuters.com time to read: +5 min

About two dozen bronze statues from the third century BC to the first century AD, extracted from the ruins of an ancient spa, will go on display in Rome's Quirinale Palace from June 22, after months of restoration. When the discovery was announced in November, experts called it the biggest collection of ancient bronze statues ever found in Italy and hailed it as a breakthrough that would "rewrite history". The statues were found in 2021 and 2022 in the hilltop village of San Casciano dei Bagni, still home to popular thermal baths, where archaeologists had long suspected ancient ruins could be discovered. Digging started in 2019 on a small plot of land next to the village's Renaissance-era public baths, but weeks of excavations revealed "only traces of some walls", San Casciano Mayor Agnese Carletti said. Then former bin man and amateur local historian Stefano Petrini had "a flash" of intuition, remembering that years earlier he had seen bits of ancient Roman columns on a wall on the other side of the public baths.

Persons: dei, Casciano Mayor Agnese Carletti, Stefano Petrini, San, Petrini, Emanuele Mariotti, Maria Giuseppina Valeri, Laura Rivaroli, Roman, San Casciano dei, Ada Salvi, Salvi, Mariotti, Marcius Grabillo, Janet Lawrence Organizations: Casciano Mayor, Culture Ministry, Grosseto, Arezzo, Thomson Locations: Rome, Italy, Tuscany, Quirinale, San, Casciano, San Casciano's, San Casciano, Tuscan, Siena

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