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The Bjørnstad Ship: A Rare Window into the Nordic Bronze Age
... dot the landscapes of the North. They depict warriors, animals, hunters and their prey, towering deities and symbols ...
Aleksa Vučković - 03/02/2023 - 13:57
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Not the Biggest, Not the Tallest, Not the Widest - So What Makes this Giant Sequoia The ‘President’?
... the seeds from their cones, this may also be aided by animals, such as Douglas squirrels and the larvae of a tiny ...
dhwty - 13/05/2017 - 18:34
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Egyptian Magic
... these Egyptian stories; mind control, enforcing will upon animals, suspended animation, calling up the dead, finding ...
ancient-origins - 28/10/2017 - 00:29
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Rare Iron Roman Cavalry Face Mask Discovered At Hadrianopolis, Turkey
... floor mosaics. According to a report in Gazete Global many animals such as horses, elephants, panthers, deer and ...
ashley cowie - 24/11/2021 - 17:57
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Candomble: The African-Brazilian Dance in Honor of the Gods
... are associated with particular natural forces, such as animals and food. Devotees of the religion believe that each ... possession” (Wafer, 1991), and the sacrifice of animals. Specific choreographed dancing occurs both to ...
Gisele Santos - 19/11/2015 - 03:50
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Reviving the Panathenaic Stadium for the Olympic Games
... of Hadrian ’s inauguration in 120 AD, a thousand wild animals were sacrificed in the stadium. Around 140 AD, the ...
dhwty - 28/03/2021 - 19:02
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9,000 year-old-flutes found in China
... ancient people were savages hunting and just living like animals. It is difficult to imagine the same people playing ...
johnblack - 07/11/2013 - 02:58
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The Four Mythological Symbols of China
... the dragon is considered by the Chinese as the noblest of animals, it is the head of the Four Symbols. Although Chinese ...
dhwty - 25/06/2014 - 02:46
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Latest Thornton Abbey Discovery: Did the Great Famine take a Medieval Priest and Leave an Elaborate Grave?
... the availability of grain for humans and hay or straw for animals -- this was a period of mass starvation. Although not ...
ancient-origins - 18/04/2017 - 22:58
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Nutmeg Poisoning: A Deadly Addition to the Kitchen Cabinet?
... At this point, nutmeg was being tested on animals as a possible narcotic substance. Smaller animals, when administered nutmeg oil reported an ...
Sahir - 17/07/2022 - 23:01
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11 of History’s Weirdest Jobs
... job to take on. Catching rats was essentially catching animals that can spread illness and steal more than enough ...
Lex Leigh - 30/08/2022 - 18:52
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Religion, Sacrifice, and the Mystery of the Table Rocks in Nabta Playa
... of the tumuli for the remains suggest that the animals were sacrificed and that much effort went into their ...
aprilholloway - 26/04/2015 - 15:05
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Mesolithic sanctuary reveals evidence of ritual and astronomical practice
... societies were inextricably linked to the world of animals and plants from which depended on their being ...
aprilholloway - 02/10/2014 - 02:46
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What Could Go Wrong?! 48,500-Year-Old Siberian Virus is Revived
... to recover frozen and well-preserved specimens of animals that lived during the Paleolithic period. In recent ... possible side effect of global warming. This could expose animals and humans to flowing rivers of glacial meltwater ...
Nathan Falde - 26/11/2022 - 22:02
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The Grand and Sacred Temple of Artemis, A Wonder of the Ancient World
... goddess of fertility, the earth, the moon, and the animals. Most of the descriptions of the original Temple of ...
Bryan Hill - 29/08/2018 - 02:50
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Ancient Jewish necropolis in Israel given worldwide recognition
... menorah and shofar and others, geometric motifs, humans, animals and architectural features. A relief of a menorah at ...
Mark Miller - 06/07/2015 - 22:02
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4,000-Year-Old Bronze Age Pyramid Found in Kazakhstan Is First Ever on Asian Steppe!
... of this complex are dominated by images of various animals, especially horses.” Excavations have been taking ...
Sahir - 09/08/2023 - 22:55
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The World body speaks
... that life on Earth also expresses this pattern. Animals with unique characteristics and attachments to ...
Barry Sears - 10/06/2015 - 00:01
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Floating Islands Seen at Sea: Myth and Reality
... also appears in al-Jahiz’s Kitab al-Hayawan ( Book of Animals ) 7.35, written in the ninth century [10]; and ... whale-island was the Physiologus , an anonymous book of animals (but which also describes some stones and trees) ...
chetvanduzer - 02/08/2014 - 13:47
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Horses of Antiquity, Their Ancient and Sacred History
... called "mysterious dog". This incorporates two sacred animals into one. To the Dakota the horse was sunkawakan, ... Gerald & Loretta Hausman have authored many books about animals in mythology including The Mythology of Horses: Horse ...
Gerald Hausman - 18/10/2016 - 00:42