Portrait of a Russian Nationalist, Bartholomeus van der Helst, 1642
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Researchers find that Neanderthal birch tar could have served as an antibiotic
If an English actress takes the products of human combustion as a sedative, then the products of burning birch bark, scientists have found, may have been used by Neanderthals as an antibiotic. Researchers from the universities of Cologne, Oxford and Liège, and from Cape Breton University in Canada, have established
Rachel Sterling eats her mother Diana Rigg's ashes before every premiere
Endocannibalism is the scientific name for the consumption of the remains of deceased members of one's own social group or family. The Yanomami of the Amazon add the ashes of a dead relative's bones to banana soup and eat it so that the spirit of the
Edvard Munch painted “Summer Night on the Beach” in 1902 at Åsgårdstrand
Edvard Munch's painting Summer Night on the Beach, executed in 1902, is a profound immersion in the atmosphere of Scandinavian melancholy. The canvas shows a deserted shore at Åsgårdstrand, the place where the artist spent his summer months and found inspiration for his most emotional works. Instead of
Archaeologists find a signet ring depicting the lighthouse in Alexandria harbour
Underwater archaeologists have raised from the bed of the Eastern Harbour of Alexandria a bronze signet ring bearing an image of the Lighthouse of Alexandria. It was found at the site of the sunken island of Antirhodos. The owner of the ring would press the image into wax or soft