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That’s a Good Friday! Missing for 30-years, stolen 16th century icon returns home to Olsztyn

Stolen in 1990, and recovered some thirty-years later, the 16th century icon has now been returned to the Museum of Warmia & Mazury. Tomasz Waszczuk/PAP

Unveiled on Friday, the priceless painting disappeared in 1990 after being stolen in a daring castle robbery. Surfacing in Germany late last year, ‘Trzy Marie I grobu’ has now been returned to its spiritual home.

Seeing red! Across Poland Soviet war memorials are being vandalised and defaced

Where once many would have sought to defend such landmarks as valuable historic relics, it is Russia’s own actions that have seen this resistance significantly diluted, says TFN’s Alex Webber.

Ukrainian refugees refuse to go to Polish region bordering Russia

Ukrainians fleeing the war in their country have refused to go to Poland's north-eastern Warmia and Mazury region owing to its proximity to Russia, local authorities have reported.

Polish museum retrieves stolen 16th century icon

A 16th century icon depicting Archangel Michael was brought back to the Museum of Warmia & Mazury in Olsztyn, north-eastern Poland, more than three decades after being stolen.

‘Life-saving’ Olsztyn firm leading the way in global blockchain technology

The first of its kind project in the world saw Olsztyn-based firm SmartKey develop a system which gave emergency service vehicles access to gated communities and other restricted access areas.

Olsztyn scientists come up with ‘martian soil simulator’ to grow plants on Mars

The New Life Capsule enables them to create specific conditions for observing the development of algal-fungal biomass, which creates a special fertiliser.

Making the cut: Olsztyn Planetarium becomes listed building

The 47-year-old building is the first modernist building in the city to receive official protection.

Law-n and Order! No mowing grassland, councils say as they roll out urban meadows scheme

Facing the threat of drought and the need for savings, Polish cities have turned ‘avant-gardeners’ by banning mowing and creating ‘cheap ‘n’ easy’ flowery urban meadows instead.

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.

Tools dating back 40,000 years including double-edged flint knife found in ancient castle cave

The excavations carried out at the castle in Olsztyn and the hill it stands on shed fascinating light on Neanderthal life thousands of years ago.

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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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