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Have you ever seen up close a puffer fish from the Nile, a lyrebird, a pig-nosed turtle or a ring-tailed lemur? These and other other extravagant beauties that nature has created over the millennia are not native to Europe, but to see them you don’t have to go to Africa or Australia. Here, in Italy, near Pisa, there is an extraordinary place “inhabited” by wonderful creatures which will leave you speechless: it’s the Natural History Museum of Pisa University. It is situated in the renowned and fascinating Charterhouse of Pisa which comprises...

Idalion (Idalium), one of the most important ancient kingdoms of Cyprus, was founded around 1100 B.C by the Achaean hero of the Trojan War, Chalcanor. The proximity of the area to copper deposits, which were mined in the northern part of the Troodos mountains, as well as the trade ports on the eastern and southern coasts of Cyprus helped Idalion reach prosperity quickly....