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Stone labret plates used as lip and cheek piercings found on the Taymyr Peninsula

Painted wooden model of three women and a man in white garments walking in line, two carrying baskets on their heads and one holding a bag.

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Servants carrying provisions for their master's afterlife in Ancient Egypt

Servants bear drink, food, cosmetics and valuables for their master's afterlife. Ancient Egypt

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The Pigeon Express

NB! · Archive · Nature

Battle Elephant, First World War

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Dream Office

A white figurine of a cross-legged scribe on a white pedestal beside a black vessel with a relief pattern, against an orange wall.

NB! · Archaeology · Museums · Ethnography

Zapotec scribe figurine at the RGGU museum, named by analogy with Egyptian scribes

A Zapotec scribe figurine from the RSUH Museum. It received its name by analogy with the characteristic Egyptian scribe figurines, about which I wrote earlier: https://telegram.me/captainpaleo/74

NB! · Observations · Society

On 26–27 August 1380 the Russian regiments crossed the Oka and set off southwards to meet Mamai

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The Ceramic Grenade of the Middle Ages

Archaeology · The East · Science

The first grenades of the early second millennium and theories of how they got their name

HAVE A POMEGRANATE. Yesterday's grenade from the time of the Crusaders, found by a power-station worker in Israel, looks like a giant stone persimmon (https://telegram.me/captainpaleo/85). So one wonders: why "grenade", of all things? I shall explain. Grenades entered active military use

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A Medieval Hand Grenade

Old photograph of a narrow stone chamber with geometric patterns on its walls and four people sitting at its base.

NB! · Archaeology · Archive · Observations · Humour

Old photograph of a Mexican excavation with people seated by an ornamented wall

While we are in Mexico, here is another old photograph, from an excavation. I shan't go into details, just look at how romantic it appears. Indiana Jones would shed a tear

Archaeology · Architecture · Observations

Besides the design of the pyramid, with its nine-tiered sides and four staircases facing the cardinal points, it is interesting that beneath the building, at a depth of some 25 metres, lies a karst lake, which is thought capable of threatening the structu

Besides the design of the pyramid, with its nine-tiered sides and four staircases facing the cardinal points, it is interesting that beneath the building, at a depth of some 25 metres, lies a karst lake, which is thought capable of threatening the structure's survival in the future,

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