Archaeology · Ethnography

The Chinchorro mummification technique in present-day Chile and Peru

The Chinchorro people, who lived in what is now Chile and Peru, built no tombs, pyramids or even simple graves, which makes reconstructing their burial process extremely difficult. But the Chinchorro process of mummification is impressive. They removed the skin from the body, separated the muscles from the bones, and

Two staff members in masks and gloves stand by an open cardboard case holding a mummy on white fabric, with shelves of boxes behind.

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Chilean scientists examine 15 mummies of the Chinchorro people, the world's oldest

Chilean scientists have examined 15 mummies of the Chinchorro people, who lived on the Pacific coast of South America from the 10th to the 3rd millennium BC. These mummies are the oldest on earth, and several thousand years older than the Egyptian ones.

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The Novy Altaysky Luch of 15 Feb 1919 carries on a single page both the flooding of the Seine and the affairs of Semirechye: famine, cattle plague, arrests of the steppe intelligentsia

The Novy Altaysky Luch of 15 Feb 1919 carries on a single page both the flooding of the Seine and the affairs of Semirechye: famine, cattle plague, arrests of the steppe intelligentsia. The Bolsheviks, who had seemed to be calming down, have once more stepped up their terror

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In 1919 the Seine Burst Its Banks and Flooded Half of Paris

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The title of Prince of Wales was first conferred upon the eldest son of Edward I, the future Edward II, born at Caernarfon Castle in 1284; ever since, the eldest royal son has by tradition become Prince of Wales

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This sleeve badge with a "swastika" was worn by commanders of the Kalmyk units of the Red Army's South-Eastern Front in 1918-20

This sleeve badge with a "swastika" was worn by commanders of the Kalmyk units of the Red Army's South-Eastern Front in 1918-20. Among Buddhists the symbol is called «lungtn, lungta», "whirlwind, vital energy"

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Timofey Yashchik (1878-1946), Bodyguard of Empress Maria Feodorovna

Books · Monarchies · Observations · People

Leib Cossack Timofey Yashchik, escort of Maria Feodorovna from 1914, and his memoirs

Life Cossack Timofey Xenofontovich Yashchik escorted Maria Feodorovna by appointment of Nicholas II from 1914 until the last day of her life. He remained at her side after the Emperor's abdication, and after the death of the imperial family. It was Yashchik who was one of the men

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In this photograph the Dowager Empress Maria Feodorovna steps out of a motor car with the help of her Kamer-Kazak, Timofey Yashchik

Black-and-white photograph of a woman in black, a man in a long overcoat and tall fur hat, and other people on a ship's deck, with a city on the shore behind.

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Empress Maria Feodorovna leaves Russia aboard the British ship Marlborough in April 1919

Dowager Empress Maria Feodorovna left Russia in April 1919 aboard the British ship Marlborough. Beside her is Grand Duke Nicholas Nikolayevich

Aristocracy · Monarchies · Mores · People

Louise of Denmark despised Frederick VII, who married the actress Louise Rasmussen in 1850

The fact that Louise of Denmark openly despised Frederick VII, her husband's predecessor on the Danish throne, who had been married three times and had many love affairs, speaks eloquently of her character. One of his marriages was morganatic: in 1850 he married the actress Louise Rasmussen, for

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Queen Louise of Denmark, seated first from the left; next to her sit the future Queen Alexandra of Denmark, Empress Maria Feodorovna, Crown Princess Louise of Denmark and the Tsesarevich Nicholas

Alexandr Radayev