(Credit: Martin Frouz and Jirí Svoboda) Three ~31,000-year-old skulls from Dolni Vestonice in the Czech Republic. For the next five thousand years, all samples analyzed in this study — whether from Belgium, the Czech Republic, Austria, or Italy — are closely related, reflecting a population expansion associated with the Gravettian archaeological culture. Analyses of […]
English archaeologists have discovered “demon traps” under the floorboards of one of Britain’s most important historic houses. Consisting of carved intersecting lines and symbols, the witch marks were found in a bedroom at Knole, a huge, stately home in Kent which is considered one of the country’s most precious historic houses. Acquired by the Archbishops […]
La Mort de César (ca. 1859–1867) by Jean-Léon Gérôme Spurinna was a haruspex. His calling was vital, if a little unusual, requiring him to see the future in the warm entrails of sacrificial animals. At the great festival of Lupercalia on the 15th of February 44 B.C., he was a worried man. While priests were […]
The Llangernyw Yew is the oldest tree in Wales. In ancient the village of Llangernyw, Conwy, North Wales stands one of the world’s oldest trees. This beautiful yew was planted in a small churchyard of St. Dygain’s Church sometime in the prehistoric Bronze Age. It is about 4,000-tear-old and it is still growing. Being the […]
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