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Builders find time capsule containing 19th century ‘coins and documents’ while digging up roundabout

The glass capsule was found on Tuesday, March 7, during work on a roundabout in the town of Oława in Lower Silesia. Miasto Oława

Contained in a transparent glass container, documents in German bearing the date 1864 and coins from the second half of the 19th century can be seen.

Computer reveals identity of oldest chronicler of Poland - and he was Croatian!

Long-thought to have been a 12th century French monk, computer technology has now shown that the author of Gesta principum Polonorum (Deeds of the Princes of the Poles) known as Gallus the Anonymous was most likely from Croatia.

SS papers, personal belongings and a model train set part of WWII ‘Wałbrzych Treasure’ uncovered by plumbers in sealed basement

The welded-shut containers containing SS documents and personal belongings including a model train set were part of a treasure haul of around 70 boxes and packages hidden by one or more German families in a walled-off basement of a building in the Lower Silesian city nearly 80 years ago.

Swedish politician repeats call for return of Laski Statute to Poland

Swedish parliamentarian Bjoern Soeder has repeated his call for the Swedish government to return to Poland the 1506 Laski Statute, currently held in the special collection of the Uppsala University Library.

New documents reveal WWII may have started in Silesia and NOT Westerplatte or Wieluń

Discovered in the archives of the Polish Institute and Sikorski Museum in London,  the two deciphered telegrams show reports by Polish army units that the German army had crossed the Polish border on the outskirts of Rybnik alongside a large group of German tanks an hour earlier than attacks on Wieluń and Westerplatte.

Fascinating new book reveals true life story of the Polish forgers who helped fool Hitler

Entitled ‘The Secrets of Station 14: Briggens House, SOE’s Forgery and Polish Elite Agent Training Station’, the book tells the history of Briggens House in Roydon, Essex, and the team of forgers established there in 1941 by the British Special Operations Executive (SOE) on the orders of Churchill to “set Europe ablaze”.

Polish archaeologists find ancient tomb of clerk who prepared pharaoh’s secret documents

The 4,300-year-old tomb was discovered in the Egyptian village of Saqqara where, according to hieroglyphs engraved on the tomb’s façade, Egyptologists managed to determine that it belongs to a man named Mehcheczi.

Poland to expel 45 Russian diplomats for spying as smoke is seen rising from the Russian embassy amid claims its officials were burning secret documents

The director of Poland’s National Security Department Stanislaw Zaryn said: ”These are people who function within the framework of diplomatic status, but de facto conduct intelligence activities against Poland.”

Intriguing new documentary series explores history and traces of Polish life abroad - beginning in today’s Lviv

VIDEO: Entitled ‘Polskie Historie Kresowe’ (Polish Kresy Histories), the series begins with a 10 minute film entitled ‘Lwowski Antoni, Ostoja polskiej tradycji i wiary’ (Lviv’s St Anthony, Refuge of Polish Faith and Tradition), which presents a brief historical outline and contemporary insight into Lviv’s Parish Church of St Anthony and its Polish roots.

Newly-found documents reveal Nazi beast in charge of concentration camp for children lived comfy post-war life

Polish historians have discovered how the commandant of Hitler’s concentration camp for Polish children in Łódź got away with his crimes after the war and lived a cushy life until old age in Munich.

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How Warsaw was rebuilt using mountains of post-war rubble illustrated in fascinating new exhibition

The story, which is being told in the 70th year since rebuilding was officially completed, is an important one as perhaps no other city in history has had to handle, process and use as much rubble as Warsaw did in the late 1940s and early 1950s.

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Rzeszów scientists develop phone battery that charges in eight minutes and lasts 68 YEARS!

Produced by The Batteries, the new technology has already been dubbed “a game changer” by the industry press, with the firm hoping to begin large-scale production once work on their “pilot factory” is finished.

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