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After a DECADE leading collection on ancient world reopens to the public

An ancient Egyptian mummy, preserved in linen wrapping in which the deceased was entombed in the first century BC or first half of the first century AD. Kalbar/TFN

The items on display come from the Warsaw National Museum’s antiquity collection, which numbers over 18,000 items, making it the leading collection on the ancient world in this part of Europe.

Poland, Italy favour expanding North-South cooperation - Duda

Polish President Andrzej Duda, summing up his two-day official visit to Rome, said Italy is an important partner for Poland and the visit showed both sides' will to further expand international cooperation along the North-South axis.

President Duda to pay his first post-relection foreign visit to Rome

President Andrzej Duda will most likely pay his first foreign visit after his reelection, to Rome and the Vatican, presidential aide Krzysztof Szczerski said on Tuesday.

Town-scape: artist turns head with amazing depictions of cities

Famed for his urban landscapes, Tytus Brzozowski is now working on a project to paint 13 cities with a Polish connection.

Pope Francis reminds Poles about 15th anniversary of John Paul II's death

At a general audience in Rome on Wednesday, Pope Francis encouraged Poles to entrust themselves to the intercession of Saint John Paul II in the time of the coronavirus threat, and reminded the faithful of the 15th anniversary of the death of the late Pope on Thursday.

Rome hosts seminar on Polish-Italian aerospace cooperation

The aviation and space sectors in Poland, opportunities for investment and cooperation, were the subjects raised during a Polish-Italian seminar in Rome on Thursday attended by government officials from both countries.

Exhibition honouring Polish WWII courier opens in Rome

An exhibition honouring Jan Karski, a Polish Home Army (AK) soldier and a courier for the wartime Polish Underground State during WWII, who informed the Allies about the Holocaust, opened in Rome on Tuesday.

Presidential couple arrives in Rome

President Andrzej Duda and his wife Agata Kornhauser-Duda arrived in Rome on Sunday. They are to be received by Pope Francis at his general audience, presidential top aide Krzysztof Szczerski told PAP.

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Art & Culture

Tokarczuk teams up with illustrator Joanna Concejo for latest book described as ‘an experiment with form’

The picture book which was first published in Polish in 2017 as ‘Zagubiona dusza’ has now been translated into English under the title ‘The Lost Soul’.

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Exclusive

‘I grew up in death camp house’: Extraordinary story of women born in Auschwitz and who has lived there ever since

Once asked to draw the view from her bedroom window for homework, Anna Odi couldn’t decide whether to draw the crematorium or the gallows where Auschwitz commandant Rudolf Hoess was executed. She told TFN: “I think I am a hostage to the stories of people who experienced this hell. I am continuing what my parents started, to be a witness. Like my parents, I owe it to the victims.”

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