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Edinburgh’s First Inhabitants Revealed in 3D Digital Reconstructions
... at Dundee University, according to council archaeologist John Lawson, aims to put human faces on a lot of the human ...
ashley cowie - 10/01/2020 - 17:44
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Spectacular Caerlaverock Castle Is Under The Climate Microscope
... AD King Alexander II of Scotland granted the lands to Sir John Maxwell and made him Warden of the West March, and he ... about 200 meters (660 ft) to the north. This is where Sir John Maxwell's brother, Sir Aymer Maxwell, built the second ... castle. The second castle was the home of Herbert Maxwell, John Maxwell’s nephew. The change in castle location and ...
ashley cowie - 02/07/2021 - 22:15
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Ancient Marvels: Ten Amazing Inventions Created Before Their Time
... piece of rock crystal, which was unearthed by Sir John Layard in 1850 at the Assyrian palace of Nimrud, in ...
Joanna Gillan - 26/12/2023 - 01:02
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Neolithic Stone Balls: The Northern Rosetta Stone?
... stone ball from Towie in Aberdeenshire, Scotland. Sir John Evans. ‘The Ancient Stone implements, Weapons & ...
ancient origins - 23/04/2023 - 14:54
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Lord Kelvin’s Lost Alchemical Chamber of Secrets
... the head of the university’s audio-visual department, John (pseudonym), about Sir William. John shared with me something that can only be described as ... William had once lectured. Credit: University of Glasgow John urged me to stand at the lectern and as I positioned ...
ashley cowie - 06/01/2018 - 18:53
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Unveiling The Star Of Bethlehem Amid The Celestial Tableau Of Jesus’ Nativity
... when one recognizes that the Gospels of Mark and John never mention Jesus’ birth. Why then, did the authors ... a heretic and would be expelled from the synagogue ( John 9:22 ). This threatened Jesus’ title as the ... AO Premium, you support independent thought and writing. John McHugh earned a Master’s degree from Brigham Young ...
John McHugh - 22/12/2021 - 22:55
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Bloody Mary: Tumultuous Beginnings for a Future Queen of England
... her attendance at her mother’s funeral in 1536. John Dee: Scholar, Astrologer, and Occult Practitioner that ... the crown, fearing her reinstatement of Catholicism, John Dudley, Duke of Northumberland , persuaded the very ...
ancient-origins - 07/10/2015 - 03:35
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The Rocks, Stained Red with Blood: A Son of Hercules Slew Giants at Salcombe, Devon?
... seeks to find new truths hidden in its mossy folds. John Clark’s excellent paper ‘Trojans at Totnes and ... seeks to find new truths hidden in its mossy folds. John Clark’s excellent paper ‘Trojans at Totnes and ... Plymouth, which had its giant figures on the Hawe; in 1486 John Rous certainly made the assertion that this was ...
Anthony Adolph - 13/09/2017 - 18:59
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Scientists Unravel Mystery of 15th Century Six-Headed Burial
... skulls set around his head”. Source: Face Lab, Liverpool John Moores University. Rebuilding Ancient Facial Features ... Liu and Dr. Sarah Shrimpton at the Face Lab at Liverpool John Moores University, after a grant was awarded from the ... the crypt entrance”. This score was settled in 1487 by John (Iain) Riabhach Mackay when he avenged his father's ...
ashley cowie - 07/09/2019 - 14:03
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Brexit Reignites Greece’s Appeal to Return Stolen Parthenon Marbles
Greece’s continuing demands for the UK to return its famous Parthenon Marbles has been ignored by UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson, again.
ashley cowie - 20/02/2020 - 18:31
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King Henry II Brought Law and Order to His Kingdom But His Rebellious Family Was A Different Matter
... entreats her son Richard I to pardon his brother, John, a painting by James William Edmund Doyle. ( Public ... his sons Henry the Young King, Richard , Geoffrey, and John, who received lands and castles before Henry. Young ... went to Chinon, where he found that his most beloved son, John, had joined the traitors. Henry had a perforated ulcer ...
Mark Miller - 28/12/2018 - 01:48
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The Godly Beauty of Adonis, Alluring Lover of the Greek Gods
... dying on the yellow sand.” The Awakening of Adonis by John William Waterhouse. ( Public domain ) Adonis’ death is ...
dhwty - 13/08/2022 - 22:50
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Has the Enigmatic Voynich Manuscript Code Finally Been Cracked?
... according to a non-peer reviewed paper published in John's Hopkins University digital journal, a Canadian ... according to a non-peer reviewed paper published in John's Hopkins University digital journal, a Canadian ... list of possible authors including: Roger Bacon , John Dee , Edward Kelley , Giovanni Fontana, or even Voynich ...
ashley cowie - 12/03/2019 - 19:16
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Roland the Farter: Medieval England’s Celebrity Flatulist
... Life Of A Medieval Jester “The Image of Irelande”, John Derrick, 1581. Two flatulists can be seen at the right ... of land from King Henry I. Painting of The Court Jester by John Watson Nicol, 1895. Source: Public Domain By Sahir ...
Sahir - 10/01/2023 - 00:54
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Top Stories This Week: Child Snatchers, Haunted Mirrors & A Pharaoh’s True Face
... messages from the gods. Also with the help of mirrors, John Dee , the magician of Queen Elisabeth I of England , ...
Joanna Gillan - 09/01/2022 - 22:00
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Why did the Protestant Reformation Happen? (Video)
... Simultaneously, in Switzerland, Huldrych Zwingli and later John Calvin spearheaded a reformation, echoing Luther's ...
Robbie Mitchell - 24/12/2023 - 19:34
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17th Century Letter Allegedly Written by Possessed Nun Decoded For the First Time
... William Blake's illustration of Satan as presented in John Milton's Paradise Lost. ( Public Domain ) Top Image: A ...
Alicia McDermott - 20/09/2017 - 14:01
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Was Queen Elizabeth I Killed by her Poisonous White Makeup?
... and Queen Elizabeth I: Female Icons Ahead of Their Time John Dee: Scholar, Astrologer, and Occult Practitioner that ...
Mark Brophy - 12/06/2022 - 22:54
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Italy’s Ancient Benandanti: Harvest Rites and Ghostly Battles
In the Friuli region of Italy in 1580, during the peak of the Roman Inquisition’s foray into witchcraft, an inquisitorial examination of a local town crier produced the following eerie testimony: “…during the Ember Days, at night; I go invisibly in spirit and the body remains behind; we go forth in the service of Christ, and the witches of the devil; we fight each other, we with bundles of fennel and they with sorghum stalks.”
Morgan Smith - 28/09/2019 - 14:00
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The Question of Ancient Kings: Cerdic of Wessex, First Saxon King of England?
... ) Are Cerdic and King Arthur One in the Same? Historians John and Joseph Rudmin noted a number of similarities between ... Top image: An imaginary depiction of Cerdic of Wessex from John Speed's 1611 "Saxon Heptarchy." Source: John Speed / Public domain By Mark Johnston References ...
Mark Johnston - 06/07/2022 - 19:00