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Decisive moments in Polish history retold with 1.5 million blocks of Lego

Taking HistoryLand’s Marcin Tobolski, Krzysztof Tobolski and Marcin Pietrucha seven years to complete, the models were constructed on a 1:50 scale with the trio working in close cooperation with historians to ensure accuracy. HistoryLand/Facebook

Taking Marcin Tobolski, Krzysztof Tobolski and Marcin Pietrucha seven years to complete, the models were constructed on a 1:50 scale with the trio working in close cooperation with historians to ensure accuracy.

Children find Bronze Age ‘corpse grave’ while playing in sandpit

The grim discovery thought to date back to the Bronze Age was made in the village of Tuchola Żarska after local schoolchildren began digging around with a bucket and spade.

Ancient Greeks were washing their hands over 300 years earlier than thought, says new research

By examining the use of 130 examples of ceramic lekanes (a type of low bowl), Dr Bartłomiej Lis of the Institute of Archeology and Ethnology at the Polish Academy of Sciences found that the lekanes were used as handwashing basins – rather than as tableware to eat food from.

3,000-year-old village found on building site of Warsaw swimming pool

The remains of the prehistoric settlement, which belonged to the Lusatian culture, were found deep below the ground in what is today’s Białołęka district of the city.

Pulled pork! Archaeologists hit the PIG time after digging up Bronze Age children’s toy pigs

Just a few centimetres long with a visible snout and ears, the figurines were discovered at the settlement from around 3,500 years ago encircled by a monumental stone wall – which captured researchers’ interests because it is the oldest of its kind in this part of Europe.

Discovery of ancient Egyptian beads sheds new light on historic trade routes

Dug up in northern Poland the beads date back some 3,500 years and made the long journey from the land of the Pharaohs to north-east Europe.

Eagle-eyed customs agents find Bronze Age sword in parcel marked “interior decorations”

Smugglers hoped the disguise would take the ancient and rare sword from Ukraine to the Czech Republic.

No mace like home: amateur diggers unearth Bronze Age mace brought to what is now Poland from a very distant land

Probably originating in the Middle East no-one is certain just how the ancient weapon made its way to what is now Poland.

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Postcard showing side-burned sailor is named Gdańsk’s oldest – but experts baffled by series of ‘mysteries’

Sent on February 29th, 1888, the postcard depicts a side-burned sailor puffing on a pipe, as well as the iconic crane building standing on the city’s quayside. The postcard’s recipient was a company director called Berhard Lahs who lived in the Silesian town now known as Kamieniec Ząbkowicki.

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Four tonnes of Nazi gold found in buried 18th century palace canister, say WWII treasure hunters

Measuring between 1.3 to 1.5 metres long and 50cm in depth, the cylindrical metal canister was found in the conservatory of an 18th century palace used by Hitler’s SS as a brothel.

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