Italy and Bosnia Archive

Feature Articles –   The Alchemical Chapel The Neapolitan Chapel of Sansevero is one of the most enigmatic chapels in Europe, if only because its creator, Raimondo di Sangro, was deemed to be the Leonardo da Vinci of his time. by Philip Coppens The Scottish Rosslyn Chapel – either correct or incorrectly – is seen as the work of the local lord, William St Clair. In …

Feature Articles –   The mysterious seafarers of the “faraway island” The ancient necropolises of the Italian island of Sardinia have been linked with the fairies, its gigantic tombs with giants. Built by the Ozieri culture, they were a mysterious seafaring culture known as the Shardana. by Philip Coppens The island of Sardinia has one of the oldest traces of civilisation: monuments around the town of …

Feature Articles –   Of Romulus and Homer Though many will identify Romulus and Remus as the mythical origin of Rome, is that all there is to know about the birth of what would become one of, if not the biggest empire in history? by Philip Coppens Rome. For many it is a city of loved, arrived at by mirroring Amor into Roma. It is the …

Feature Articles –   The towers of Sardinia The nuraghi on the Italian island of Sardinia are one of the least known, but most remarkable legacies of the “Stone Age”. If ever the Flintstones were real, it seems they were natives of Sardinia. by Philip Coppens On the Mediterranean island of Sardinia, the southern – Italian – neighbour of the French Corsica, stand extra-ordinary megalithic constructions …

Feature Articles –   Europe’s pyramid history unveiled The possibility of European pyramids is like London busses: you wait for centuries, and all of a sudden, two come along at the same time: in early 2003 in Italy, and in 2005 in Bosnia. After less than one year’s of scientific analysis, the Bosnian pyramid is already identified as an artificial structure, thus finally providing proof that …