Jan Glazewski News Today

A bizarre humanoid creature spotted atop a roof in Nigeria, a buried treasure from WWII found after 80 years, and a Cookie Monster menacing a California city are among the weird and wondrous stories to cross our desk this past week.

A priceless treasure hoard in Lviv has been recovered by the Polish family who buried it when Russia invaded in 1939. The Glazewskis have kept a hand-drawn map for nearly 80 years to find the items.

The silver was buried when the Glazewski family had to leave their estate in Poland during the Second World War.

UCT’s Emeritus Professor Jan Glazewski presented a Summer School lecture on how he located treasured pieces of family silver 80 years after they were buried.

A new literary festival, Books on the Bay, has been announced. It will take place in Simon’s Town from 10 to 12 March.

Blood and Silver is a memoir about surviving HIV and searching for a family treasure

Testing the Antarctic Treaty’s conflict-averse culture, the Kremlin’s grotesque invasion of Ukraine may be the peace and science agreement’s biggest challenge yet, say polar analysts. Some have asked why Russia, whose icebreaker nosed into Table Bay this morning, may enjoy its seat at nex...

I brace for the destruction of my ancestral home, a historic, mysterious city, the place of my forefathers, and a prize fought over by power-hungry tsars and emperors.