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Faith · Science · Nature · Rome
The legend of the sacred geese of the Capitol and the Gallic sack of Rome in 390 BC
The Sacred Geese before the Temple of Juno Moneta on the Capitoline Hill. The historical chronicles, including the works of Titus Livius, offer no reliable confirmation that it was the geese who played the decisive part in saving the Capitol. The legend seems rather to have arisen as a symbolic
Science · Mores · Humour
How people watched the solar eclipse of 12 August 1654
Observing a Solar Eclipse in the Seventeenth Century. On 12 August 1654, people looked at the sun through smoked glass; the more resourceful used a mirror, and the very cunning a dish or a bucket of water.
Cinema · Observations · Science · Education
Melde's experiment with a violin bow and a vessel of water shows how waves propagate under the influence of sound vibration
Did you cover this at school? Or at the very least, do you remember Sandra Bullock's talent-show number in the film "Miss Congeniality"?
Books · Science · Palaeontology · Nature
Yevgeny Yevtushenko on the last mammoth and the Yakutian mummy of Yuka the mammoth
He trod with difficulty along the spur above the ice-bound river. There used to be many of them, the proud ones, many, and he was the last of such. Tried more than once in the storm, today he gave way, as if out of spite. From the arrows sticking
Geography · Science · Society
Roscosmos publishes satellite images of Alaska and Anchorage ahead of the 15 August talks
Roscosmos on What Is Happening in Alaska. Images received from the Elektro-L and Arktika-M satellites show that the territory of Alaska is for the most part covered by cloud. A high-resolution image of Anchorage was taken by the Resurs-P satellite
Heritage · Science · New York · Society · Pop Culture
Niger opens inquiry into export of Martian meteorite sold at Sotheby’s for $4.3 million
In July, a Martian meteorite found in Niger in 2023 was sold at Sotheby's in New York for $4.3 million. The stone, known as NWA 16788, became the largest Martian meteorite ever sold at auction. Only the other day, Niger opened an investigation into the circumstances of
Art · Science · Pop Culture · Humour
Modern pigments in the “Botticelli Madonna” point to Umberto Ginti as its author
Botticelli's "Madonna of the Veil" turns out to be a twentieth-century fake, painted from the popular 1930s actress Jean Harlow. Doubts about its authenticity were confirmed by the discovery of modern pigments. The true author of the "Botticelli Madonna" proved to be the
NB! · Books · Science · People
In his "Essays on Optimism", Academician Metchnikoff wrote that Europeans do not enjoy long lives, only long old age
Archaeology · Museums · Science · Saint Petersburg
Cambridge archaeologists find hidden tattoos on Pazyryk woman's mummy held in the Hermitage
Intricate Tattoos Discovered on a 2,500-Year-Old Mummy from Siberia. British archaeologists from the University of Cambridge have used modern scanning methods to study the mummified remains of a woman of the Pazyryk culture, held in the Hermitage. The study, published in the journal Antiquity, revealed tattoos on
Archaeology · Heritage · Science · Nature
Rock Art of the Shulgan-Tash Cave Added to the UNESCO World Heritage List
Russian archaeology marks an event of world significance: a Russian monument, the cave paintings of Shulgan-Tash on the River Belaya in Bashkortostan, has been inscribed on the UNESCO World Heritage List. I congratulate everyone who has had a hand in the work at the site and in its study,
NB! · Archive · Architecture · Science · New York