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Yorkshire Museum buys 13th-century Limoges crucifix from St Mary's Abbey at auction
When You've Already Been Crucified, but Your Supervisor Still Asks About Your VAK Publications. Some good news: a remarkable medieval crucifix of copper alloy, the work of Limoges craftsmen, has returned to York, where it was long kept at St Mary's Abbey, now no more. The
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From the middle of the eighteenth century, men were increasingly called upon to assist at childbirth in England: physicians with surgical training and specialised instruments were far more effective than midwives versed in folk medicine
From the middle of the eighteenth century, men were increasingly called upon to assist at childbirth in England: physicians with surgical training and specialised instruments were far more effective than midwives versed in folk medicine. But the fashion provoked a public controversy, fuelled all the more by the fact that
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Bronze finial of a Roman standard with an eagle in the Zagreb Archaeological Museum
Things like this take me back to the days of Asterix and Obelix, that is, to when they were shown on Saturdays at 9 a.m. Part of a Roman standard: a bronze finial in the form of an eagle resembling a plump goose, perched astride a baton, with a
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The tureen in which Napoleon served broth to Marie-Louise when she bore him a son, the King of Rome, Napoléon François Joseph Charles Bonaparte: it, too, could be seen at the Paris Biennale, on the ImperialArt stand
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The boots Napoleon wore during his years on the island of Saint Helena, in the Drouot pavilion at the Paris Biennale
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Viking double burials and the hypothesis of the woman’s sacrificial role
Remember the news about the skeletons holding hands that turned out to be the remains of two men? When it comes to Viking paired burials, such as those in these illustrations, there is a hypothesis far removed from the silly formula of "they lived happily ever after and died
Archaeology · Faith · Observations · Palaeontology
A sanctuary with mammoth bones and theories about the spiritual world of Palaeolithic people
Though statements about the spiritual world of Palaeolithic people are pure fantasy, of course, given the complete absence of material. For the most part I take such theories as fantasy, but a SANCTUARY with mammoth bones is really something and fits my subject, so I could not help sharing it.
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Archaeologists Discover a Sacred Place of People Who Lived 23,000 Years Ago at a Palaeolithic Site in the Bryansk Region
Archaeologists have discovered a sacred place of people who lived 23,000 years ago at a Palaeolithic site in the Bryansk Region. It was a hearth with mammoth bones dug into it, and beneath them lay objects which, in the researchers' opinion, were used for ritual purposes. Among them
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My cat demands attention and a pouch of food at 7 a.m.
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Etruscan paired funerary urn of the 500s BC and the place of women at the banquet
One of many paired Etruscan funerary urns, 500s BC. It is generally held that the spouses depicted are sharing a meal. The wife may be passing her husband an aromatic liquid, perfume or oil, while in her left hand she holds a pomegranate, the symbol of immortality. Hm. Two on
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