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Unusual 20,000-year-old human skull shows diversity of prehistoric humanity
... a very modern human at the Neanderthal Museum , Mettmann, Germany. The partial skull find suggests that great human ...
lizleafloor - 20/02/2015 - 22:10
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Walpurgis Night: A Saint, Witches, and Pagan Beliefs in a Springtime Halloween for Scandinavia
... monastery of monks and nuns at Heidenheim, in modern day Germany. She died in 779 AD and was buried in Heidenheim. ... practices were developed to keep them at bay. Thus, in Germany, on Walpurgis Night, people would dress up in ... with Scandinavia and Walpurgis Night originated in Germany, where she served as abbess for about half her life. ...
dhwty - 09/11/2018 - 01:54
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Nazi gold train could contain lost Amber Room of Charlottenburg Palace
... and Fire Brigade. An underground tunnel, part of Nazi Germany "Riese" construction project under the Ksiaz castle ...
aprilholloway - 30/08/2015 - 21:58
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Scold’s Bridles: 12 Torturous and Humiliating Shame Masks of the Middle Ages (In Pics)
... museum. ( celiafoto / Adobe Stock) Medieval torture mask, Germany ( Thomas Quine / Flickr) An Iron 'scold's bridle' or ...
Joanna Gillan - 07/10/2022 - 14:53
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Weird Witch Bottles, Historic Efforts to Ward Off Evil Spells and Witchcraft
... often used to make witch bottles. Bartmann Jug, 1525-50, Germany, Cologne (Victoria and Albert Museum) ( CC BY-2.0 UK ...
dhwty - 06/02/2016 - 03:49
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A Toxic Price to Pay: Wealthy citizens in medieval Europe had poisoning from lead-glazed plates
... the bodies of people buried in cemeteries in northern Germany and Denmark. The study says the lead could have been ... skeletons from cemeteries in Rathaus Markt in Schleswig (Germany) and Ole Worms Gade in Horsens (Denmark). The remains ... from cemeteries in St. Clements outside of Schleswig (Germany), Tirup outside of Horsens (Denmark), Nybøl in ...
Mark Miller - 26/10/2015 - 13:54
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Neanderthal Ancestry Detected in Africans For the First Time
... have looked like in the Museum für Naturkunde, Berlin, Germany. ( כ.אלון/ CC BY SA 3.0 ) The method the ...
ancient-origins - 31/01/2020 - 00:39
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Egtved Girl Origins Keep Getting More Complicated
... she’s from has been a topic of heated debate. Some say Germany, others Denmark, and now one researcher provides ... probably had was born in the Black Forest of South West Germany and traveled frequently via ship between there and ... is much bigger than Denmark. Parts of present-day northern Germany , southern Sweden and southern Norway also belonged ...
Alicia McDermott - 23/08/2019 - 01:56
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The Measure Of Ancient Mirrors: Planispheres, Phenakistoscopes And Telescopes
... ”. Gesta Romanorum, a manuscript from Upper Swabia in Germany (circa 1452) ( Public Domain ). The story then turns ...
Dr. Benjamin B. Olshin - 23/06/2021 - 12:08
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The Disturbing True Story of the Pied Piper of Hamelin
... is set in 1284 in the town of Hamelin, Lower Saxony, Germany. This town was facing a rat infestation, and a piper, ... the glass window of the Market Church in Hameln/Hamelin Germany (c.1300-1633). ( Public Domain ) The supposed street ...
dhwty - 03/11/2020 - 23:15
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Neanderthal Hunters Were Stalking Cave Lions 48,000 Years Ago
... remains of a cave lion skeleton found in Siegsdorf, Germany, which was excavated 38 years ago and dated to ... in 2019 at Unicorn Cave in the Harz mountains of northern Germany. These skeletal artifacts, which included small bones ... butchering the freshly killed cave lion from Siegsdorf, Germany. Source: Julio Lacerda / © NLD By Nathan Falde ...
Nathan Falde - 13/10/2023 - 22:57
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The Powerful Hallstatt Culture: Foundation of the Proto-Celtic World
... in the east to Hungary in the west; and from southern Germany and Slovenia in the South. Of course, since it ... be observed. In many archeological digs within modern-day Germany, Austria , and France, the Hallstatt remains were ... goods are located at Vix in Central France and Hochdorf in Germany. The former yielded an enormous Greek krater (a large ...
Aleksa Vučković - 15/10/2021 - 22:54
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1,000-year-old tooth plaque sheds light on ancient lives
... from 1,000-year-old skeletons in a medieval cemetery in Germany. They had the idea that the plaque may have encased ... of a middle-aged man from the Medieval site of Dalheim, Germany. Photo credit: Christina Warinner By John Black ...
johnblack - 25/02/2014 - 00:42
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The Slaughter Of The Magi: How Ancient Persia Made Genocide an Annual Holiday
... in Clavis Artis, an alchemy manuscript published in Germany in the late 17th or early 18th century and ...
Mark Oliver - 29/06/2018 - 18:54
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Rare Batavian Calvary Mask Worn in Revolt Against The Romans Found
... mainly left behind by the Romans in this area of central Germany on the Rhine River . The Roman occupiers of this area ... German barbarians overwhelmed the Roman forces in central Germany on the Rhine River. (Otto van Veen/ Rijksmuseum ) The ...
Nathan Falde - 28/07/2022 - 18:56
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Ancient Artists Left Signs For us to Decode. Did they Witness UFOs?
... is located at the Bayerisches National Museum in Munich, Germany, which unfortunately has little information about it. ... on display at the Bayerisches National Museum in Munich, Germany. (Hurley / Public Domain ) Dr. Birgitt Borkopp from ...
Daniela Giordano - 09/09/2019 - 18:53
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Akhenaten: Imperishable Art of an Iconoclast: Creativity Blossoms in the Desert—Part I
... Ollermann/ CC BY 2.0 . Museum August Kestner, Hanover, Germany.) Unlike the legion of Egyptian gods and goddesses, ...
anand balaji - 05/07/2017 - 15:34
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The Erlking: The Powerful Germanic Mythical Snatcher of Children
... the “king of the fairies” and was likely adopted in Germany from the older Danish legend of the “Ellekonge,” ... This harlequin image is on a park bench in Pulsnitz Germany, where most of the earliest references to the Erlking ...
Aleksa Vučković - 30/12/2021 - 22:00
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Famed Egyptologist Proclaims Discovery of Queen Nefertiti’s Mummy
... presently in the New Museum on Museum Island, Berlin, Germany. (Philip Pikart / CC BY-SA 3.0 ) Nefertiti’s Mummy? ...
Nathan Falde - 26/09/2022 - 23:00
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First Carpenters in Europe more than 7,000 years old
... like wooden tools have been found in Tanzania, England and Germany but even more depicted in the paintings of the two ... in wood working, the Egyptians and Chinese. In Eastern Germany recently wooden water wells were discovered dating ...
johnblack - 14/04/2013 - 19:48