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I dropped into the numismatic shop at the Green Bazaar, where I have been buying for 15 years, and added ducats from the Semirechye hoard to my collection
I dropped into the numismatic shop at the Green Bazaar, where I have been buying for 15 years, and added ducats from the Semirechye hoard to my collection. If you don't know how to spend a million, ask me
Archaeology · Faith · The East · Books · Observations
Vayera, the Torah portion read this week, is one of my favourites
Vayera, the Torah portion read this week, is one of my favourites. Besides Abraham's circumcision and the news of Sarah's pregnancy, it tells how Abraham pleads for mercy for Sodom, yet the angels save from the city's inhabitants only the family of Abraham'
Archaeology · Science · People
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The Institute of Archaeology of the Russian Academy of Sciences has announced the death, in his 83rd year, of the distinguished scholar Lev Vladimirovich Koltsov, Doctor of Historical Sciences and leading researcher in the Department of the Stone Age. I offer my condolences to his family and friends. __________________________
NB! · Archaeology · The East · Nature
1860 discovery in Egypt of a burial of 180,000 mummified cats
In 1860 a burial of 180,000 mummified cats was found in Egypt, many of the mummies with bronze masks. Egyptian animal cemeteries also sometimes yield mummified dogs, monkeys and birds
NB! · Archaeology · Monarchies · Science
Silver Boar Badge of Richard III Helps Locate the Battle of Bosworth Site
A badge bearing a silver boar, the emblem of Richard III, has been found at Bosworth. Thanks to this token, which belonged to one of the king's closest knights, archaeologists have been able to establish the exact site of the battle
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Statue of Idrimi, King of Alalakh, with an autobiographical inscription on his robe
King Idrimi of Alalakh has been extremely tense for 3,500 years, as though disturbed at an inconvenient moment. And his face seems to say more than the autobiographical text inscribed across his robe
Archaeology · Archive · Monarchies · Heritage · Paris
The body of Henry IV when the Saint-Denis crypts were opened during the Revolution
There is one more detail in this story that I have not mentioned before. When the crypts of the French kings at Saint-Denis were opened during the Revolution, beginning with Clovis, who lived in the fifth century, the body of Henry IV was found in an extraordinarily good state
NB! · Archaeology · Faith · Mores · Ethnography · Humour
In medieval Sweden, unmarried women were buried with a mirror, so that they might set their hair straight at the resurrection at the end of time and look a little better
In medieval Sweden, unmarried women were buried with a mirror, so that they might set their hair straight at the resurrection at the end of time and look a little better. Even at the Last Judgement, one is received by one's dress
Archaeology · Geography · Maps · Observations
Wrecksite.eu, the largest shipwreck database with maps and a library
I have found a wildly cool website that will be useful to anyone working on maritime history and naval battles: it is the largest shipwreck database in the world. Here you will find maps, a calendar of accidents at sea, the finds of underwater archaeologists, data on shipowners and shipbuilders,
Archaeology · Ethnography
Burial of a 2nd-century infant with a deformed skull found at the Kyz-Aul necropolis in Crimea
A burial of an infant of the 2nd century AD has been found in the Kyz-Aul necropolis in Crimea. What makes it unusual is that, in keeping with a barbarian tradition, the skull of the deceased had been severely deformed. The burial was at once dubbed the “alien'
NB! · Archaeology