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A temple for a Queen, sarcophagi and a three thousand year old papyrus discovered in Egypt

From excavations carried out in Saqqara, south of Cairo, emerges a site where archaeologist Zahi Hawass believes ‘there is still 70% to explore’.

Cutileiro’s legacy passes through a house-museum in Évora

João Cutileiro revolutionised sculpture with a D. Sebastião statue that heralded a revolution. He brought speed to the grinding of the stone. He had the courage to make art in a small town. What is his legacy?

Isabel Salema

O ano em que o fim do mundo se tornou possível

Isabel Salema

Vitalina Varela: the Portuguese Oscar nomination

Pedro Costa’s film replaces Ana Rocha de Sousa’s Listen, which has been turned down by the Hollywood Academy for not fulfilling the criterion of being at least 50% spoken in a language other than English.

Daniel Dias

John Le Carré (1931-2020): a great literary talent in service of the spy novel

The British writer, author of books such as The Spy Who Came In from the Cold and Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy, and creator of the most complex of spies in all espionage literature, George Smiley, died of pneumonia this Sunday aged 89.

Luís Miguel Queirós

São Pedro de Rio Seco, where Eduardo Lourenço began

Portugal was ‘out of sight’ in the border village where one of the essayists who best envisaged the national identity was born in 1923. Almost a century later, it still is: deserted, reduced to 181 inhabitants, a third of whom are over 65, it remains a place ‘little seen and little known to the eyes of the world’.

Isabel Lucas

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Anna Costa

An art and education museum is the newest building from Siza and Castanheira in China

The space of about five thousand square meters that will be inaugurated this Saturday will house a collection of paintings and sculptures. It is in a campus in the city of Ningbo, south of Shanghai.

Sérgio C. Andrade

“Listen”, by Ana Rocha de Sousa, is Portugal's selected film for the Oscar nominations

“Listen” was the most voted among the members of the academy, within a selection of four Portuguese films up for discussion: “Listen”, by Ana Rocha de Sousa, “Mosquito”, by João Nuno Pinto, “Patrick”, by Gonçalo Waddington, and “Vitalina Varela”, by Pedro Costa.

Lusa