the foundation stones of the treasure house of cyrix diagonally opposite. in sicily giving as experienced the greatest disaster in the history the few who survived the battle had to work as slaves in the mines of syra cuse digging perhaps with a go which the enemy is used to make leaning votive gives. one of the our in is a fate and intended scenario thousands of visitors were shown that the gods never let pride and arrogance go unpunished. but the real secret of the power of the oracle was the ambiguity which made its prophecy is well nigh infallible. between the eighth and the fifth century b.c. in greece retribution the thirst for revenge and intolerance were very much the reality in public and private life the cities were overcrowded. poverty and despair widespread. delfi was the mouthpiece of apollo in the priest's war and revered as a young civilized god who recognized the currents of the time well in advance. k.k. signs that understood. tolerance delphine always tolerated other gods in his century. mercy the weak were given a chance to show the victo

the exhibition at the quest how cyrix isn't completely ready yet but it is shaping up to be a flamboyant one. featuring around two hundred exhibits that explores the ties between art and clothing over fight centuries. more doubts that for a long time fashion was mainly reflected an art the clothes that were worn before the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries didn't survive and. that means that a painting such as this is the only clue we have as to what people wore at the time . it also shows that even hundreds of years ago they were eager to be noticed. the margrave of brenda book spock would certainly have turned heads five hundred years ago with his arm of peter skirt as would anyone sporting this steel get up with matching copies of mensa tile wasn't as understated then as it is now in the sixteenth century slashed garments worn by mercenaries were all the rage would is tied to stash and was by no means a women's thing or a female richness. it was as much a male as a female domain and men's fashion was very exciting the minimum order. the slashed look was adapted for this renaissance

coal was in sharp decline in the cyrix the end of heart coal mining in germany while a new exhibit in the western city of essen inside what was once europe's largest coal mine looks back on the history of this area of this area and karen how sad from our culture desk is here to tell one of the fitting way to mark international workers day is narrow interests in coal black. so tell us about what do we see ok so this is called the age of coal a european history so it's not only showing how and where the cole was actually mind here in germany and but there we're talking obviously about hard black coal you know that high quality anthracite but it also gives you that an amazing overview of just how central coal was to the industrial revolution as a whole and so many things depended on coal and it was of course a major driver of germany's postwar economy for many decades. and just to give an idea you know in the mid fifty's germany counted about one hundred twenty eight coal mines by the late seventy's that had already twenty down to about twenty one as the transition to go and natural gas