These carvings are found on the northern wall with a carved decoration ... The church also contains a wealth of liturgical objects of the medieval period. Criterion (i): The Urnes Stave Church is an ...

Michael Portillo’s rail journey continues on the Bergen Line, heading towards the Norwegian capital of Oslo, with its fine ...

I like to play around with textures a lot, whether it’s giving the form a ribbed texture, or carving, or combining different glazes. They say [in ceramics] not to become emotionally attached ...

This church became known as the Coptic church because Copt is the Arabic and Greek word for Egyptian. Before the Moslem invasion in 641 the Copts fell into heresy due to their rejection of the ...

The Church charity then linked her up with the National Human Trafficking Hotline, which is operated by Polaris, in the United States. Eventually, another U.S.-based NGO – Freedom for All ...

One of the nation’s oldest stone churches is getting badly needed care this month from a hands-on specialist who has learned, through modern detective work in masonry, about its original construction.

With clear instructions, they could have built the entire church," he says. Norwegian stave churches required large quantities of logs with specific dimensions. Slaves could have been sent into the ...

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The post states that the school building, storage shed, and apartments have been searched, but they have not found the one-of-a-kind carving. The Zion Evangelical Lutheran Church is asking for ...

Related: Norway's most famous rock carving may have been preserved by a Nazi researcher looking for the origins of the Germanic people "This has made researchers hesitant to engage with Old Norse ...