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If you, too, have ever heard reels-scholars speak of Neanderthal women as hostages to a narrow pelvis that condemned them to difficult births, this claim can now safely be moved to the category of refuted myths

Archaeology · Science

If you, too, have ever heard reels-scholars speak of Neanderthal women as hostages to a narrow pelvis that condemned them to difficult births, this claim can now safely be moved to the category of refuted myths

A team of researchers from the University of Zurich and the Institute for Basic Science in Busan has digitised and reconstructed the pelvic bones of four Neanderthals of different ages and sexes: an infant of one and a half years from Dederiyeh Cave in Syria, a young woman from Sima

By Alexandr Radayev
Just think: the Polytechnic Museum has been closed since 2013, so one might say an entire generation of visitors has been denied the chance to set foot in this unique building

NB! · Architecture · Moscow · Museums · Observations

Just think: the Polytechnic Museum has been closed since 2013, so one might say an entire generation of visitors has been denied the chance to set foot in this unique building

Just think: the Polytechnic Museum has been closed since 2013, so one might say an entire generation of visitors has been denied the chance to set foot in this unique building. Does anyone have any notion of when the museum will reopen in its native home, or, more precisely, whether

By Alexandr Radayev
The US Department of Justice has announced that if repairs and funding for the Kennedy Center are suspended, the building will have to be demolished

Architecture · Moscow · Observations · Heritage · Society

The US Department of Justice has announced that if repairs and funding for the Kennedy Center are suspended, the building will have to be demolished

The collision arises from a lawsuit brought by the Democrat Joyce Beatty against the attachment of Trump's name to the building. In May 2026 a court had already ordered that name removed from the title "Donald J. Trump and John F. Kennedy Memorial Center for the Performing

By Alexandr Radayev
One could speak of the antiquities of Bulgaria at length: the oldest worked gold in the world, the oldest solar calendar in Europe in the Magura Cave, Europe's largest Neolithic necropolis at Durankulak with the oldest stone building on the continent…

Archaeology · Faith · Science

One could speak of the antiquities of Bulgaria at length: the oldest worked gold in the world, the oldest solar calendar in Europe in the Magura Cave, Europe's largest Neolithic necropolis at Durankulak with the oldest stone building on the continent…

And now, near the village of Člebi in the Nymburk District of Central Bohemia, archaeologists from the University of West Bohemia have unearthed a monumental structure more than 6,500 years old, identified as one of the oldest ritual centres in Central Europe. The building is an almost circular enclosure

By Alexandr Radayev
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