NB! · Archaeology
Alexandr Radayev
NB! · Archaeology · The East · Museums
The Ten-Thousand-Year-Old Beauty of Ain Ghazal, Full Length
Archaeology · The East · Museums · Paris
Neolithic settlement of Ain Ghazal in Jordan and its alabaster statues
In 1984, road builders in Jordan discovered Ain Ghazal, the largest Neolithic settlement yet found, which at its height, in the 8th millennium BC, was home to 3,000 people. The population of Jericho in the same period is estimated at around 2,000. Ain Ghazal also covered 15 hectares,
NB! · Art · Museums · Paris
A smiling female sculpture from the Louvre
In the Press · Faith · Mores · People
Marital Life in the Corinthian Church Founded by Paul and the New Testament
I have written a little on how married life was advised to be conducted in the Corinthian church founded by Paul, and how this is reflected in the New Testament. Paul himself was unmarried and gave preference to virginity before marriage, but wished a different lot for his followers: http:
NB! · The East · Books · Society · Humour
A Mother Goose Rhyme for Jewish Children
A Mother Goose rhyme for Jewish children. A kitten visited Palestine in 1945 and saw camels and donkeys. In Israel in 1966 it saw an agrarian revival and industrialisation. Geopolitics for toddlers!
NB! · Art · Monarchies · Society
In this wine glass sits the devil who is carrying the House of Hanover to hell
NB! · Monarchies · Science
The Sundial of Charles II
Aristocracy · Architecture · Books · London · Monarchies · Mores
Charles II's glass sundial at Whitehall and its destruction by the Earl of Rochester
In a book on Whitehall, one of the loveliest palaces in Europe and, in its day, the largest in the world, I came upon a description of a whimsical toy belonging to the merry King Charles II. In the centre of the Privy Garden at Whitehall stood a unique sundial.
Art · Books · Humour
Linor Goralik wrote that in one Soviet album the painting was titled "Dynamism of a Dog on a Leash"
Linor Goralik wrote that in one Soviet album the painting was titled "Dynamism of a Dog on a Leash". As they say, the subtleties of translation!
NB! · Art · Humour
The Dachshund Hurries
The dachshund is in a hurry. 1912, a painting by Giacomo Balla, one of the authors of the manifesto of Italian Futurism: "Dynamism of a Dog on a Leash". Oil on canvas.
NB! · Art · Books · Observations · Humour