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ancient-origins - 12/06/2014 - 05:18
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Will Prince Charles Succeed in Reviving Long-Lost Foods from our Ancient Past?
... foods that could grow in extreme climates and feed millions of people around the world. The project will ... foods that could grow in extreme climates and feed millions of people around the world. The project will ... which can not only help sustain agriculture, but also feed and nourish our growing population.” Prince Charles ...
Theodoros Karasavvas - 08/11/2017 - 13:54
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Atypical Nourishment – Hematophagy, Cannibalism and Necrophagy
... of legends which talk about supernatural beings which feed on human blood and flesh. Greek and Roman mythology ... fresh blood of children and newborns, the strix could also feed on the blood of young men. In addition, Greeks also ... appearance in the form of a crone who stole children to feed on their flesh. The image of a vampire and the horror ...
Phoenix Vald - 22/01/2022 - 01:00
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Why do Ice Ages occur? A New Paradigm Shift on a Prehistoric Problem
Why do ice ages occur? Surprisingly, even after many decades of paleoclimatic research we simply do not know for sure. Most scientists will agree that ice age cycles have something to do with precession: the slow wobble of the axis of the Earth.
ralph ellis - 09/04/2016 - 00:48
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Intentional Forest Fires Shaped Forests in the USA More than Climate Change
... regenerate plant species that they wanted for food, and to feed game animals they relied on, they needed to burn the ... regenerate plant species that they wanted for food, and to feed game animals they relied on, they needed to burn the ...
ancient-origins - 22/05/2019 - 18:50
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Rome Offers Visitors An Underground Gladiatorial Experience
Rome's famous 2,000-year-old Colosseum has a vast underground world called the “hypogeum” and it’s now open to the public for the first time.
ashley cowie - 28/06/2021 - 14:55
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Challenges of Infant Mortality in Ancient Egypt: Disease, Death and Deliverance - Part I
Family came first in ancient Egypt. Be it the royal household or the commoner on the street, the bond between parents and their children was considered sacred. Right through the Old Kingdom period down to the New Kingdom and beyond, various kinds of tokens of familial love have survived intact. However, amulets in the graves of young ones reveal that a dark truth lurked behind the veil of producing many offspring in the hope of living happily ever after.
anand balaji - 21/05/2018 - 15:29
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Has the lost Biblical town of Dalmanutha been found?
Today we reported on the discovery of a 2,000-year-old mansion at Jerusalem’s Mount Zion, which is believed to have belonged to a member of the Sadducees class, whom Jesus criticised for their wealth. Now, in another significant discovery, the same archaeological team believe they have found the lost
aprilholloway - 19/09/2013 - 12:35
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Uncovering the Language of the First Christmas
... the wall of a stable on which hay was placed as animal feed. In a private house, it may also have been a rectangular ...
ancient-origins - 26/12/2017 - 22:50
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The Legendary Kraken: The Real Animal Behind the Monster
... and peculiar scent”, or perhaps poop, when it wanted to feed. Either way, the fish would be lured in and enter the Kraken’s mouth to feed. As a result, vast quantities of them would be trapped. ...
bill - 10/06/2020 - 21:32
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Evidence Suggests Stonehenge May Have Been Built Using Pig Fat
Newcastle University
Fat residues on shards of pottery found at Durrington Walls, near Stonehenge, have long been assumed to be connected with feeding the many hundreds of people that came from across Britain to help construct the ancient monument.
ancient-origins - 15/07/2019 - 22:55
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Archaeologists discover 2,400-year-old Terracotta Baby Bottle
Archaeologists in Italy have found a 2,400-year-old terracotta baby’s bottle, which doubled as a pig-shaped toy. The unique artefact is one of several rare objects found last May in Manduria, when construction work exposed a Messapian tomb.
aprilholloway - 14/12/2013 - 23:17
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Six Fantastic and Mythological Beings from the Blade Trilogy
... local folklore are called Jiang Shi , creatures who do not feed on blood, but on chi (that life energy of living ...
Phoenix Vald - 18/03/2022 - 00:59
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8 of History’s Most Terrifying Hags
... sailors to her island with a beautiful singing voice, feed them, and then transform them into animals. Upon landing ... course. Depending on the tradition the Chedipe will either feed on all the men, only the strongest man, or only the man ...
Robbie Mitchell - 24/02/2023 - 00:56
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700-Year-Old Tomb of Confucian Doctor Unearthed in China
... the gravestone that he once cut flesh from his own arm to feed his ailing mother to show filial piety.—Xinhua. ...
Mark Miller - 09/05/2015 - 13:32
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Burial Statues Add to Death Treasures Unearthed in Saqqara Necropolis
The Saqqara royal burial necropolis south of Cairo, Egypt, is perhaps 2020’s most revealing ancient site. It seems that every month new treasures are presented from this deeply-sacred burial complex. Now, Egyptian antiquities officials have announced the discovery of a collection of around 40 gilded burial statues to add to the trove of the site’s archaeological treasures.
ashley cowie - 14/11/2020 - 21:52
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Diet of human brains helped Papua New Guinea tribe to resist disease
... fed with the ground up remains of sheep turned into cattle feed. The outbreak of BSE in 1986 meant that hundreds of ... zoos died as well, after having eaten commercial cattle feed. By 1993, 120,000 animals had been diagnosed with BSE. ... Japan to ban imports of British meat and bone animal feed and the EU to ban imports of British beef. Cases of BSE ...
Robin Whitlock - 16/06/2018 - 00:36
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Grandfathers of Alchemy, Forefathers Of Chemistry
Alchemy is a word almost everyone has heard of, but few have ever committed more than a handful of hours trying to grasp what this heavily loaded symbolic word actually means, in its entirely. So often the interested are discouraged by the complex matrix of bizarre symbols and motifs which include nightmarish creatures and semi-divine humans emerging from shadows searching for pure alchemical gold of a type that cannot be bitten, to test its fortitude.
ashley cowie - 01/08/2020 - 00:04
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Teeth ‘Time Capsule’ Reveals That 2 million Years Ago, Early Humans Breastfed For Up To 6 years!
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My Name Is Heracles, And I Have Father Issues
The story of Heracles is considered one of the oldest of the Greek myths. Heracles’ popularity stretched from the western world to the far reaches of northern India.
B. B. Wagner - 15/08/2019 - 22:59