Archaeology · Museums · Mores · Ethnography
A wooden ancient Egyptian headrest recalls an architectural model of a Greek portico. The Egyptians used such contrivances for sleeping. The head was placed upon the headrest in lieu of a pillow. If the bed stood close to the ground, this offered protection from insects and scorpions. On the other
Books · London · Mores · Ethnography
This is not the only mention of polygyny and polyandry in the British Isles. Already in Julius Caesar's Commentaries on the Gallic War there is an account containing the detail that "[in Britain] ten or twelve men have wives in common, and particularly brothers with brothers, and
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Archaeology · Moscow · Museums
The wand is broken, so no magical powers remain in it. It is the third such object in the museum's holdings; the other two come from the collection of the Russian Egyptologist Vladimir Semyonovich Golenishchev. The newly acquired piece comes from the collection of the Australian surgeon Harley
Architecture · Interviews · Moscow · Museums
Not long ago, the Bakhrushin Museum held a preview of the Centre for Theatre History, part of the museum and theatre quarter. This large-scale and in many respects unique project has long been discussed with interest in the museum community. The other day TASS published a substantial, programmatic interview
Books · Observations · Society
Sergey Kazakov, Director of the Industrial Development Fund of the Chelyabinsk Region, declares that the robotisation of industry is being held back by business itself:. "We had a case where a loader robot was installed at one of the enterprises. On the second day it broke down. They began
Books · Museums · Science
The forerunner of the television: the oldest known “magic lantern” is recorded in the Physices elementa… of the Dutch physicist Willem Jacob 's Gravesande. 's Gravesande, a former lawyer from The Hague who became a professor of mathematics at Leiden, was the first of Newton's followers
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Art · Moscow · Museums · Observations · Humour
When I posted to my stories a photograph of a work from the collection of the New Tretyakov Gallery, "Our Goal Is Communism! Komar, Melamid", a woman I did not know wrote back: "no, it isn't". I asked her: "what do you mean,
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NB! · Architecture · Observations · Rome
From the Mouth of Truth to the Cloaca Maxima is a stone's throw. Eternal, all the same, this city of Rome