Observations · Humour

A narrator speaks of an age of two thousand and the fear of asking about it

When you see me for the first time, what you most want to ask is how old I am. But you do not dare, because you fear to hear: two thousand

NB! · Observations · Humour

The Hydra Wishes You a Pleasant Weekend

NB! · Museums · Observations · Humour

This is not some zoological museum where you pose your plain girlfriends against Soviet taxidermy

Archaeology · Observations · Heritage · Humour

The Chersonesos mint proved to be a residential house, half of which was backfilled

An interesting observation about archaeologists: all of them adore discovering monuments of the utmost importance, unique, rare, the most significant, and so on. So it was with the already described baptistery of Prince Vladimir. You find the skeleton of a church: yes, this is where the prince was baptised. You

Archaeology · Observations · Humour

An elderly woman picked up a potsherd from the ground, wet it with saliva and threw it away

Saw an old woman pick up a potsherd from the ground, lick it on both sides, look at it and throw it away. An antiquarian or a soil scientist?

NB! · Archive · Mores · Humour

Graffiti by the Vandals of Tsarist Russia

Archaeology · Observations · Humour

Burial of a young woman whose body was covered with cherry blossoms

Discussing the burial of a girl whose body was strewn with cherry blossom. I dare say many ladies would gladly die for the sake of such beauty.

Archaeology · Mores · Humour

Water supply and sewers of Chersonesos and the account of its capture by Prince Vladimir

As is well known, lavatories in Rome were a place for public gatherings, and people came there not merely to crap, but also to discuss the main news of the city and pick up the gossip. The lavatories were situated near the baths or the aqueduct: beneath the stone bench-

Dry golden grass on the shore, with a dark blue sea beyond it and a pale blue sky with white clouds.

NB! · Archaeology · Observations · Humour

Sandrik reports from an excavation by the sea on a find of glass beads

Gone off to an excavation, but so far I have found only glass beads and am occupied with nothing but the sea. I promise to tell you the most interesting parts and to lay my hands on something more valuable. With archaeological greetings, Sandrik

NB! · Education · Pop Culture · Humour

The Right Look for a Humanities University

Stone relief with Egyptian hieroglyphs, including shapes that resemble flying machines.

NB! · Archaeology · Science · Humour

Theory of accidental hieroglyph overlay and the helicopters in Egyptian tombs

Helicopters in Egyptian tombs. There is a view that all manner of flying machines and futuristic vehicles in Egyptian wall paintings are the result of the chance overlaying of different hieroglyphs

NB! · Art · Nature · Humour

And this is the mythical hydra that lives in the Nile and crawls into the jaws of sleeping crocodiles, then devours them from within

And this is the mythical hydra that lives in the Nile and crawls into the jaws of sleeping crocodiles, then devours them from within. Yes, the crocodile looks like a red dog with chicken's legs and a webbed spine