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Decapitated Statues of Greek Deities Finally Reunited with Their Heads
... in Turkey. ( Anadolu Agency ) Was Aizanoi the Site of a Health Cult in Roman Times? Another significant find by the ... was a life-size statue of Hygieia , the Greek goddess of health, cleanliness, and sanitation, from whom the word ... to speculate that Aizanoi may have been home to a Hygieian health cult in Roman times. Coskun says : “During past digs ...
Sahir - 02/11/2021 - 21:59
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Healing energy of the prehistoric tunnels beneath the Bosnian Pyramid Complex
... possess healing energy? In this editorial on the possible health benefits found in the prehistoric stone tunnels ... lung function capacity was reduced to 47%. Due to ill health, Veronika soon after being diagnosed underwent surgery ... Labyrinth, the young Slovakian felt improvement in her health. For the first time in two years , she didn't feel the ...
samosmanagich - 07/10/2015 - 00:46
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Waterloo Teeth: Wearing A Dead Man’s Grin
... and the poor too. Vulcanite dentures. National Museum of Health and Medicine / Flickr From the patenting of hardened ...
Aleksa Vučković - 30/11/2019 - 17:49
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The Healing Arts and Spiritual Mumbo-Jumbo in the Ancient World
... was sometimes referred to by the Greeks as Hygeia, or health deified. As you might imagine, the healing fees ( ... Ancient Healing Methods Offer an Alternative Paradigm in Health Since a lot of these new methods came from Arabic ...
Steven Darian - 19/10/2022 - 01:52
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Coastal Neanderthals Went Diving For Tools
... the gulf of Naples and transported by sea to the beach." Health Problems arose Foraging from the Sea? An August 2019 ... The researchers in that study believed that the health problem may have been due to Neanderthals exploiting ... and it's similarity to the human infant. ( SUNY Downstate Health Sciences University ) Top Image: Neanderthal tools ...
ancient-origins - 16/01/2020 - 14:44
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The Ideal Woman’s Body – a Gift of the Gods?
... reproductive endocrinologic status, and long-term health risk in women. Three studies show that men judge women ... a distribution of abdominal fat associated with good health and fertility,” explains Rob Brooks, in What Science ... body mass likely had an advantage over others in terms of health and fertility, notes Viren Swami, Professor of Social ...
lizleafloor - 11/06/2018 - 18:54
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Think Egypt Think Magic: The Power of Heka in the Life of King and Commoner – Part I
... - 333 BC). As an amulet, the popular Wedjat eye symbolized health and protection. ( Los Angeles County Museum of Art) ... science and religion, as it addressed concerns such as health and wellbeing, protection from evil, and revenge. In ...
anand balaji - 02/01/2019 - 15:13
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Ancient Greek Physician Hippocrates and the Medical Revolution
... examining sick twins, on the influence of the stars on the health of man; the parents of the twins in the foreground. ... in diet or an increase in exercise as a way of improving health. The Hippocratic Corpus With such a strong emphasis ... left behind his large corpus of work and a world which saw health and sickness in very different terms to the previous ...
Sarah P Young - 24/08/2019 - 14:01
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Woman, Healer, Goddess? Famous (and Forbidden) Female Physicians in the Ancient World
... goddess of the soothing of pain; Hygieia, the goddess of health; cleanliness and sanitation; and Panacea, the goddess of the universal cure. Hygeia, Goddess of Health, Peter Paul Rubens ( Public Domain ) Statues of Hygeia ... Ancient Healing Methods Offer an Alternative Paradigm in Health Martini Fisher is a Mythographer and Author. Her books ...
MartiniF - 19/04/2017 - 15:34
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A history of sugar – the food nobody needs, but everyone craves
... – apart from commercial profits – is a global public health crisis, which has been centuries in the making. The ... imminent threat to our landscapes, our societies and our health. Stepping back Human physiology evolved on a diet ... slave labour, and were originally seen to be beneficial to health. And although both sugar and tobacco have ancient ...
ancient-origins - 01/11/2015 - 20:51
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Unravelling the mystery of disease in ancient Mesopotamia
... enabled the researchers to capture an overall view of the health status of residents of Mesopotamia at different ... concluded that there is little evidence of significant health concerns in the region and that “the communities of ...
johnblack - 23/02/2014 - 22:25
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Napoleon's Love of Cologne May Be What Killed Him, Says UK Biochemist
... of biomedical science at De Montfort’s School of Allied Health Sciences . According to Dr. Haris, Napoleon slowly ... toe with men’s perfume on a daily basis to preserve his health and vitality. He apparently even consumed it on ... also contained elevated levels of arsenic. Napoleon’s health might have been compromised by exposure to arsenic ...
Nathan Falde - 09/05/2021 - 23:12
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Medieval Cancer Rates Were Shockingly High, New Study Shows
... new research suggests. Cancer as a Timeless Risk to Human Health “Until now, it was thought that the most significant causes of ill health in medieval people were infectious diseases such as ... McDonald Institute for Archaeological Research, in CNN health . “We now have to add cancer as one of the major ...
Nathan Falde - 30/04/2021 - 22:49
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A Digit of Devotion: Buddha's Finger Bone
... with the hope that its presence would bring about better health. Given that the Emperor is thought to have also used ... inevitably failed. The gesture of entrusting one's health to a mere finger bone demonstrates the widespread ...
Roisin Everard - 03/09/2023 - 18:56
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CT Scans of Mummy of an Ancient Priest Reveal He Was Stricken with Modern Diseases
... which the scans also show. Top Ten Historical Health and Medical Discoveries of 2015 New study sheds light into ancient Egyptian health care system at Deir el-Medina This research is a ... time when CT scans have helped to find out more about the health of a person who was mummified millennia ago. As Mark ...
Natalia Klimczak - 29/07/2016 - 00:55
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Despite its Ritual Importance, “Toasting” Came from a Piece of Toast
... being “toasted,” or having someone drink to their health, “developed by association with the act of literally ... when men would gather at symposiums and drink to the health of their gods. The tradition continued with the Roman ... that the Senate decreed all diners had to toast the health of Emperor Augustus at every meal. NPR claims that ...
Cecilia Bogaard - 02/10/2022 - 23:00
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Feeling Guilty About Drinking? Well, Ask the Saints
... they developed the recipe for this festive refreshment. Health and community So why such an impressive record of ... God. Historically, alcohol was seen to be promoting health. Fritz Wagner (1896-1939) (Dorotheum). ( Public Domain ... of human history, alcohol was instrumental in promoting health . Water sources often carried dangerous pathogens, and ...
ancient-origins - 20/11/2017 - 01:55
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What Makes Spartan Women So Different From Other Ancients?
In Sparta, the individual did not matter. Everything was for the preservation and continuous strengthening of the state. They built no walls since they welcomed any to challenge invasion. They lit no nightly fires to remain hidden in the dark. They spoke with so few words, so plain and directly that they keyed the adjective ‘laconic’, which derives from the Spartan Province of Laconia.
B. B. Wagner - 23/01/2020 - 18:46
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Bile, Cauterization, and Exercise: Cancer Treatment Was a Very Different Story in Ancient Greece
... diet and exercise program aimed at boosting a patient’s health after the surgery was prescribed. Greek physician and ... cancer. Available at: https://edition.cnn.com/2016/11/13/health/ancient-world-cancer/index.html SBG-TV, 2017. The ...
dhwty - 19/02/2019 - 23:01
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Beware the Wandering Wombs of Hysterical Women
... move within and throughout the body, depending on the health of the woman. According to Hippocratic physicians of ... more present in the medical world. Hysteria and Mental Health In the 17th century, hysteria emerged as one of the ... However, what was changing was attitudes about mental health . During this time, the medical thoughts on hysteria ...
B. B. Wagner - 07/09/2019 - 18:51