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A Case in Which the Image of an Ancient Nubian Ruler Could Be Mistaken for a Figure of Christ

The petroglyph from Misida (2) in northern Sudan, near the Third Cataract of the Nile, consists of a male figure about two and a half metres tall and two goats. The figure is thought to depict a ruler of Kush, the ancient kingdom in Nubia, in present-day Sudan, whose

Archaeology · Science · Ethnography

In the Bronze Age, it was chiefly the young who moved house in Greece

Researchers have analysed the skeletons of 199 people, found by archaeologists at six sites in central and southern Greece, and concluded that in the Bronze Age it was young people who moved between communities most often. The study forms part of the European project The Rise II, which brings together

Archive · Geography · Art · Observations · Ethnography

I got lost in reading about Australia today and came across a drawing entitled "Conflict witnessed in 1845 at the Sherburn sheep station, at the confluence of the Goulburn River"

I got lost in reading about Australia today and came across a drawing entitled "Conflict witnessed in 1845 at the Sherburn sheep station, at the confluence of the Goulburn River". The author is tentatively identified as a certain J. Phillips. The piece belongs to the collection of the

Archaeology · Science · Society · Ethnography

A new estimate of the Indigenous population of Australia before the arrival of Europeans has been published

A new estimate of the Indigenous population of Australia before the arrival of Europeans has been published. Modelling based on archaeological, genetic, ethnographic and ecological data has produced a median estimate of 2.22 million people by 1788, that is, by the arrival of the First Fleet. Earlier estimates ranged

London · Museums · Heritage · Ethnography

The Bayeux Tapestry Is Now on Show at the British Museum, but Photography Is Forbidden

The seventy-metre eleventh-century embroidery of the Norman conquest of England has arrived in London for the first time in almost a thousand years. France has lent it to the British Museum under an intergovernmental agreement for the period from September 2026 to July 2027, while the museum in

Books · People · Ethnography

Whereas the cleverer we become, the less we understand the meaning of life and the more we see some wicked mockery in the fact that we suffer and die, these people live, suffer and draw near to death with calm, and more often than not with joy

Whereas the cleverer we become, the less we understand the meaning of life and the more we see some wicked mockery in the fact that we suffer and die, these people live, suffer and draw near to death with calm, and more often than not with joy. Whereas a calm

Art · Moscow · Observations · Ethnography

One of the more unusual and memorable art objects at Cosmoscow turned out, to my surprise, to be connected with Russian folk style: a panel of wooden Khokhloma spoons entitled “Rhythm of Generations”

One of the more unusual and memorable art objects at Cosmoscow turned out, to my surprise, to be connected with Russian folk style: a panel of wooden Khokhloma spoons entitled “Rhythm of Generations”. The result is a rather arresting appeal to folk crafts, and entirely without cranberry-sauce kitsch, even

NB! · Archive · Faith · Ethnography

This is not what you might think, but a cross in a circle marking the great Christian feasts in the margins of an Old Believer manuscript menologion

NB! · Archive · Faith · Ethnography

Mordvin Pilgrim Women at the Ponetayevka Convent for Women in 1904

Art · Observations · Heritage · Ethnography

I have read two items in the official information bulletin of the Haida people, who live on the archipelago of Haida Gwaii in British Columbia, Canada, devoted to the return of totem poles

One article tells how the village of Sgaang Gwaay Llnagaay, which was emptied in the 1880s by epidemics, still has more than thirty ceremonial poles with figures of bears and killer whales, carved from cedar in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. The poles marked families and served as memorials to

NB! · Faith · Mores · Ethnography

On the Feast of the Apple Saviour we not only have the fruit blessed in church and prepare treats from apples, but also do charitable deeds

On the Feast of the Apple Saviour we not only have the fruit blessed in church and prepare treats from apples, but also do charitable deeds. In keeping with old Russian tradition

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Chopping the Cabbage

Orenburg Governorate, 1900s