Archaeology · Science

Post pits aligned with the solstice axis found at Bulford near Stonehenge

Near Bulford, five kilometres from Stonehenge, traces of a structure some five thousand years old have been found. Two post holes, one might say, and one would hardly have blamed anyone for paying them no attention, yet they were found, 120 metres apart and about a metre deep. But Phil

Architecture · Moscow · Observations · Heritage · Society

To the cautiously floated question "what is so important about the Electrozavod?", one might reply, so as to avoid explaining oneself to the valued fools, with a question of one's own: "is the city really in such need of new square metres of offices and h

To the cautiously floated question "what is so important about the Electrozavod?", one might reply, so as to avoid explaining oneself to the valued fools, with a question of one's own: "is the city really in such need of new square metres of offices and

Black-and-white photograph of a man in a white fencing suit holding an épée, the fencing mask pushed back on his head.

Observations · People · Humour

Fencer in a white suit with an épée and the mask pushed back on his head

Viktor Alexeyevich Krovopuskov: Soviet sabre fencer, four-time Olympic champion and seven-time world fencing champion. So here is a man with a telling surname

NB! · Science · Palaeontology · Nature

A new species of ant, Aethiocarenus burmanicus, with a triangular head and bulging eyes able to look backwards, discovered by scientists of Oregon State University in a piece of amber 100 million years old

Archaeology · Faith · Museums

Second-century Greek curse tablet with Egyptian symbols found in a well in Heerlen

A lead curse tablet, or defixio, written in Ancient Greek and designed in the Egyptian manner, with a group of magical signs meant to carry its request to the powers of the other world. The tablet names two men and two women, who may equally be the cursed or the

Archaeology · Science · Nature

A team of researchers from Oxford, let us call the collective MacLeod and colleagues, has found traces of the plague bacillus about 5,500 years old in the DNA of the hunter-gatherers of the Baikal region

A team of researchers from Oxford, let us call the collective MacLeod and colleagues, has found traces of the plague bacillus about 5,500 years old in the DNA of the hunter-gatherers of the Baikal region. This is the earliest outbreak of plague recorded in archaeological material. The Plague

Heritage · Science · Palaeontology · Nature

Triceratops skull named Sophia, valued at $600,000–800,000, goes to auction in the US with a starting price of $360,000

Sophia is a juvenile, that is, an individual incapable of reproduction at the time of death. Her skull, about two metres long from snout to frill, was recovered five years ago from the Hell Creek Formation in North Dakota. The same site yielded the skull of a pachycephalosaurus, recently bought

Architecture · Geography · Heritage

The Acropolis restoration service completes the west pediment of the Parthenon

The Acropolis Restoration Service has announced that it has completed the western pediment of the Parthenon. The external scaffolding has been removed from the western façade for good, for the first time in several decades. The Minister of Culture, Lina Mendoni, says that the façade now stands in its full

Art · Madrid · Museums

"Venus and Cupid" by Peter Paul Rubens, painted in 1606-1611 under the impression of the same subject as executed by Titian

Collection of the Thyssen-Bornemisza National Museum in Madrid

Archive · Architecture · Moscow · Heritage

The Dovecote Dacha, or Simply the Dacha Behind the Donskoy Monastery: One of Old Moscow's Unusual and Enigmatic Buildings

The Dovecote Dacha, or simply the dacha behind the Donskoy Monastery, is one of the unusual and enigmatic buildings of old Moscow. A great deal is known about it, but just as much has been invented, as so often happens, by city tour guides and mere lovers of historical sensations.

NB! · Cinema · Society · Pop Culture

Helen of Troy in Nolan's Film, Once White People Appear in Shot

A boy in a dark cap and a floral shirt holds a large plant with huge leaves in front of a tent.

Archive · Observations · Nature

Dima Sukhanov in a photograph by Vladimir Karlov, 1992

A Boy with Burdock Leaves from the Kaluga Region Will Bring You Summer. 1992, photograph by Vladimir Karlov, featuring Dima Sukhanov

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