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Topkapı Palace opened to night visitors
Istanbul's Topkapı Palace, affiliated with the National Palaces Department, opened its doors at night for the first time on June 30 to visitors.
The palace will be open every Saturday night between 9 and 11 p.m. and visitors will have the opportunity to tour the palace in two groups.
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“Ancient Chinese Science & Technology” exhibition opens at Herakleidon Museum
The Herakleidon Museum will host the exhibition “Ancient Chinese Science and Technology” of the China Museum of Science and Technology in Beijing introducing to the Greek public for the first time some of the remarkable technological achievements of the Chinese civilization, one of the most ancient.
Civil War In Japan – The last Shogun marches toward the end of an era
On the 27th of January, 1868, the army of the Shogunate was marching toward Kyoto. For more than a quarter of a century, the Tokugawa Shoguns had ruled Japan in peace, but now the country was once again in turmoil. Foreigners had come to Japan, Dutch, British and French, and modern European weaponry and training had for the first time become influential in the land of the rising sun.