NB! · Archaeology · Faith · Monarchies · Museums
Diamonds found at the site where the bodies of the Romanovs were desecrated at Ganina Yama are held in the Tsar's Museum in Yekaterinburg. The fate of almost 8 kilograms of family jewels remains a mystery to this day.
Aristocracy · Archaeology · Faith · Monarchies
In 1976 Prince Golitsyn attempted to reconstruct the picture of the murder of the Imperial Family and visited Yekaterinburg. But finding the mines into which the bodies of the Romanovs had been thrown proved far from easy. Local residents refused to say where the iron mines were situated, to which
Archaeology · Faith · The East · Ethnography
The farmers of ancient Qatar spent most of the winter painting pebbles with horsehair brushes, which they sowed in spring together with the grain. The intricately decorated pebbles were meant to scare off greedy spirits that spoil the seed
Archaeology · Science · Ethnography
Strabo, Claudius Aelianus and several other authors write that the Scythian battle mixture for arrowheads was made from human blood serum, dung and the venom of various snakes. A wound from such an arrow could cause not only direct poisoning by snake venom but also blood poisoning. In other words,
NB! · Archaeology · Ethnography
These treacherous arrowheads are considered a Scythian invention and date from roughly the 7th century BC. But their power lay not only in the barbs, serrations and facets: the arrowheads were steeped in viper's venom, just to make certain
Archaeology · Science · People · Rome
The creators of the Leiden reconstruction do not insist that Caesar looked exactly like this. The appearance, however, corroborates the testimony of the literary sources that Caesar was literally torn from his mother's womb. Yet if the head of the Roman dictator was indeed so markedly deformed, it
NB! · Archaeology · Museums · Science · People
The National Museum of Antiquities in Leiden has made a 3D model of Julius Caesar's head from the bust found in Turin. The deformed right side of the skull supports the hypothesis of a birth injury
NB! · Archaeology · Museums · Observations · Humour
The aged ancient Greek libertine Baubo in Freud's consulting room. Nicely settled in
NB! · Archaeology · Faith · Ethnography · Humour
Figurines of Baubo, the old woman who made the goddess Demeter laugh in her grief for her daughter by lifting her skirts and displaying her nether parts. There were Baubos in the old days!
NB! · Archaeology · Monarchies · Museums · Heritage · Paris · Rome
A long-awaited reunion! A copy of the finger recently discovered in the Louvre is being fitted to the hand of the Emperor Constantine in the Capitoline Museums
Archaeology · Museums · Heritage · Paris · Rome
In 1858 the Louvre acquired part of the collection of the bankrupt Marquis Giampietro Campana. His property was divided between the English, the Russians and the French, and enriched the national museums. Among other things, France came into possession of an enormous bronze finger, 38 centimetres long. As early as
Archaeology · Moscow · Heritage · Science
After the opening of the tomb of Tsarevich Ivan Ivanovich in the Archangel Cathedral of the Moscow Kremlin, expert analysis showed that the remains of the "murdered" son contain 32 times the normal level of mercury. As for fractures of the bones, no conclusions were drawn owing to