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The city of Antakya, known in antiquity as Antioch, was at the crossroads of civilizations for centuries. After the Feb. 6 earthquake, many of its centuries-old monuments and sites lie in ruins.
Stuff
When the wreck of the Ventnor, which was carrying the remains of 499 Chinese miners, was discovered in 2013, nobody foresaw the arguments that would erupt.
Aside from the speeches, a big card and drinks at the Shakespeare Tavern afterwards, I don't remember much about my last day at the Herald in late 2004. But I can certainly remember why I left after 17 years. The Herald was very good to me. When asked about it I would tell people that it was like going to university and studying a new course every week. You had to pick up a topic and learn... - LEAVING THE HERALD: Good-bye to all that by Graham Reid
JSTOR Daily
Enslaved: Peoples of the Historical Slave Trade brings together datasets from multiple sources in a single free website that anyone can use.
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The looting of Beijing’s “Garden of Eternal Brightness” by European armies in 1860 lingers in tales of the diaspora.
RNZ
Former Blue Baths leaseholder Jo Romanes says it has been hard to step away from the role as the historic building is continuing to decay with no one to advocate for it.
Stuff
There are hundreds of sites around Tāmaki Makaurau – some may be closer to you than you think.
RNZ
The items include moa leg bones, a golden huia beak brooch, a kiwi skeleton, a taxidermied bird, and two Māori clubs.
Newsroom
A postcard, a fork, and a skull and crossbones emblem - mundane objects build an absorbing tapestry of life at sea in the early days of colonial New Zealand.
Māori Television
Authored by videographer Ginés Pastor Espuch & digital producer Mana Wikaire-Lewis. Māori Lawyer David Stone a is continuing his journey to give medals back...
Stuff
Laurel Rockliff's family mystery of drunken tales and red herrings has been solved by the sleuthing of kind strangers.
Many of Dunedin’s retail buildings date back to the turn of the twentieth century. Then, as now, developers wanted to maximise usable space in...
Stuff
A message in a bottle, century-old dolls and ancient Māori tools were among the hidden treasures unearthed across Aotearoa this year.
Stuff
But many of the country's cultural institutions are struggling to maintain collections and pay staff.
Stuff
There’s a wool shed on Te Waimate Station in South Canterbury that is, in some ways, a trip back in time.
E-Tangata
“The betrayal and violation of the Treaty was in itself a form of state corruption, driven by the settler quest for land at the expense of Māori.” — Professors Robert Gregory and Daniel Zirker.
RNZ
A prominent meeting site for Captain Cook and Māori could soon have better heritage protection.
RNZ
A unique set of documents that covers the lives of early traders and merchants in New Zealand has been recognised as a national heritage collection.
Māori Television
Thousands of people turned out to see the whānau of 89 Māori battalion soldiers finally receive their World War II medals, at a ceremony at Te Papaiouru...
Stuff
The flats are the "archetype" of Modernist design but are well past their use-by date. What will happen to them once the residents are gone isn’t clear.
Researchers were able to identify five people and build a picture of some of their lives.
the Guardian
Few know of the drawings scattered across Aotearoa, some of them dating from first arrival of humans, but iwi and scientists are working to change that
RNZ
Wellington's tip shop is marking two and a half decades of turning trash into treasure. Opened in 1997 by locals, it's grown from two staff to twenty. Our reporter Kate Green and visual journalist Angus Dreaver paid them a visit.
Newshub
Built in 1915, the monument's original orb and spire went missing after the Quay Street area was developed in the 1960s.
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