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This week, Your News to Know rounds up the latest top stories involving gold and the overall economy. Stories include: Billionaire investor sees gold blazing far past August’s high, gold is scheduled for a re-run in 2021, and hoard of medieval gold coins unearthed in an English back yard. Gold’s new all-time high is just the start, says billionaire investor The bull run in gold that saw the metal blaze to a new all-time high of $2,071 in August might have, at first glance, been a result o...

by 18 December 2020 Tristram kenton © DWA LLC A look back to the West End before social distancing: this was the spectacular Moses musical The Prince of Egypt which opened at the Dominion Theatre on the eve of the pandemic A look back to the West End before social distancing: this was the spectacular Moses musical The Prince of Egypt which opened at the Dominion Theatre ... IN A year that was disastrous for many people, the pandemic was a sudden ...

National Endowment for Humanities Funds ANS-Oxford University OXUS-INDUS Project National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) has awarded the Society a $150,000 USD grant for the two-year joint ANS-Oxford University OXUS-INDUS project. The award comes through the New Directions in Digital Scholarship in Cultural Institutions program that partners the NEH with the United Kingdom’s At the ANS, Dr. Andrew Meadows and Dr. Gunnar Dumke at Graeco-Bactrian and Indo-Greek coinage. For many of th...

The Open Laboratory: The Years Best Writing on Science Blogs. In their early days, scientific journals were much more generous than they are today about publishing letters from experimenters and collectors in all walks of life. The hard wall between scientists and amateurs had not yet been built and all literate people were, in theory, entitled to participate in the discussion. One such person was Rev. Edward Lhwyd (or Lhuyd or Lhwid or Lloyd), the illegitimate son of a member of the minor gent...

Hoard of Gold Tudor Coins Unearthed in England Tuesday, December 15, 2020 LONDON, ENGLAND—A family living in southeastern England discovered a cache of Tudor coins, including 63 gold coins and one silver coin, while doing yard work, according to a report in The Guardian. “That was a great deal of money, certainly more than the annual wages of the average person,” said Barrie Cook of the British Museum. The Tudor coins date from the late fifteenth century and the reign of Edward IV...

A hoard of Tudor coins, some that represented three of Henry VIII’s wives, has been unearthed by a family who was out gardening on their New Forest property. The family found 63 gold coins and 1 silver coin dating back to the 15 th and 16 th centuries. Ian Richardson, who is the treasure registrar at the British Museum, explained how they came across the hoard of coins, “They were out turning up the soil and all of a sudden these coins popped out of the ground … miraculously.” “It is ...

“A Very Strange Decision” and “Numismatically, Very Interesting” Barrie Cook, a curator of medieval and early modern coins at the British Museum, says the Tudor hoard contains coins minted during the reign of Edward IV all the way through to his grandson King Henry VIII . Furthermore, most of the gold coins show “angels” on one side and images of the archangel Michael killing a dragon, as described in the Biblical Book of Revelation on the flip side. The coins from the reign of H...

© Ben Molyneux/Shutterstock.com The Ashmolean Museum opened in 1683 at the University of Oxford. Its collection is vastly wide-ranging. This list highlights just 10 of its notable paintings. Earlier versions of the descriptions of these paintings first appeared in 1001 Paintings You Must See Before You Die , edited by Stephen Farthing (2018). Writers’ names appear in parentheses. Landscape with Repose of the Holy Family (1825) Samuel Palmer belonged to a group of Romantic artists known as t...