The mummy of the Ukok Princess with light hair, visible teeth and dark tattoos on the shoulder and arm.

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Altai people demand the return of the Ukok Princess from a Gorno-Altaysk museum for burial

For years now the Altaians have been demanding that the Ukok Princess be returned home and committed to the earth. Though she is, in any case, kept in a museum in Gorno-Altaysk, she belongs to the Siberian Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences, and the Altaian elders, alas,

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The image of the demon Pazuzu (or simply Zu) from ancient Assyria and Babylon is also in active use in modern culture

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One would rather that, instead of the hackneyed cliché about the tip of the iceberg, people spoke of the figures of Easter Island, most of whose bodies lie hidden beneath the earth

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Virtual tours section on the ethnomuseum.ru website

A virtual tour of the Russian Museum of Ethnography:. http://www.ethnomuseum.ru/virtualnye-tury

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A Sculptural Group at the Château de Fontainebleau Devoted to Saint Sylvester

A sculptural group at the Château de Fontainebleau devoted to Saint Sylvester. The pontiff is also venerated in the Orthodox Church, with his feast day on 2 January. He is regarded as the patron of domestic fowl, chickens in particular

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Fireworks in India

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The Chinchorro mummification technique in present-day Chile and Peru

The Chinchorro people, who lived in what is now Chile and Peru, built no tombs, pyramids or even simple graves, which makes reconstructing their burial process extremely difficult. But the Chinchorro process of mummification is impressive. They removed the skin from the body, separated the muscles from the bones, and

Two staff members in masks and gloves stand by an open cardboard case holding a mummy on white fabric, with shelves of boxes behind.

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Chilean scientists examine 15 mummies of the Chinchorro people, the world's oldest

Chilean scientists have examined 15 mummies of the Chinchorro people, who lived on the Pacific coast of South America from the 10th to the 3rd millennium BC. These mummies are the oldest on earth, and several thousand years older than the Egyptian ones.

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This sleeve badge with a "swastika" was worn by commanders of the Kalmyk units of the Red Army's South-Eastern Front in 1918-20

This sleeve badge with a "swastika" was worn by commanders of the Kalmyk units of the Red Army's South-Eastern Front in 1918-20. Among Buddhists the symbol is called «lungtn, lungta», "whirlwind, vital energy"

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Astronomical foundations of Maya religion and parallels with Christianity

By the time the Maya met the Europeans, the religions of Mesoamerica had been developing for three thousand years and were moving towards the idea of monotheism. The trouble is that the Spaniards came upon these religions at one particular stage, and it is that stage which they recorded in

Three flint knives with faces, shell eyes and teeth, on a dark background, on a book page with a caption.

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Aztec sacrificial knives with shell eyes and teeth found at the Templo Mayor

Aztec sacrificial knives. It is curious that the form and method of manufacture of these flint and obsidian blades barely changed in over ten thousand years, the decoration alone excepted

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