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Surprising Facts and Beliefs About Eclipses from the Medieval and Renaissance Eras

... Siebach-Larsen, director of the Rossell Hope Robbins Library , shed light on how the people of the (falsely ... Middle Ages needed to know about eclipses, too The Robbins Library collection boasts a beautiful "bat book almanac" that ... Collected works (‘The Book of the Queen’). British Library Harley MS 4431, fol 189v . Source: Michael Osadciw/ ...

ancient-origins - 04/04/2024 - 17:49

The Westcar Papyrus and the Miracle Stories of the Old Kingdom

... to have displayed the artifact in the Oxford Bodleian Library. However, there is no recording of Lepsius’ name in any of the Library’s documents. Moreover, the Westcar Papyrus, as it ... . Hill, Jenny. "Westcar Papyrus." Ancient Egypt Library . Ancient Egypt Online, 2016. Web. ...

Kerry Sullivan - 28/10/2016 - 14:49

Vatican City: The Tiniest Country with the Biggest Influence

... who painted the ceiling and sculpted the Pieta . The library in the Vatican is perhaps one of the most important ... Grafton, A. (Ed.). (1993). Rome reborn: the Vatican Library and Renaissance culture . Washington: Library of Congress Available at: ...

Ed Whelan - 31/12/2020 - 01:17

Gateway to the Heavens: The Assyrian Account of the Tower of Babel

... excavation did yield additional tablets, from the Royal Library of Ashurbanipal, and upon further research he did ... […] the course he broke […] fixed the sanctuary” Library of Ashurbanipal on display at the British Museum in ...

pkoutoupis - 15/07/2022 - 01:56

The Maya Codices: The Precious Remaining History of an Eradicated Civilization

... of the surviving Maya codices. It came to the Royal Library in Dresden in 1739 after it was purchased from a ... lithographic prints have been preserved in the Newberry Library of Chicago. Though the Paris Codex was mentioned but ... dusty basket beside a fireplace in an office of the Paris Library. It is not a complete codex, but rather fragments of ...

Veronica Parkes - 20/06/2017 - 22:56

DNA Test Disproves Woman’s Claim to be Salvador Dalí’s Daughter

... Photographed holding his pet ocelot, Babou. (Library of Congress / Public Domain ) DNA Test Results DNA ...

Ed Whelan - 22/05/2020 - 18:56

Therapeutic Hypothermia: Is Extreme Cold An Effective Ancient Remedy?

... John Hunter, wondering what he will freeze next (Wellcome Library / CC BY 4.0 ) The renowned Scottish surgeon and ... have acute effects on a person. Hippocrates (Wellcome Library / CC BY 4.0 ) He stated that “cold should be ...

Aleksa Vučković - 26/08/2021 - 22:39

Study Unveils Just How Scribes Compiled the Famous Domesday Book

... surviving Domesday manuscript, the Exeter Cathedral Library MS 3500, aka the Exon Domesday. The research suggests ... charters. Page in the Exon Domesday. (Exeter Cathedral Library/ CC BY 4.0 ) With that inspiration and technology ...

Alicia McDermott - 13/01/2021 - 21:52

Not Just a Pretty Face: Cleopatra Was a Genius Who Spoke 9 Languages

... at the Mouseion in Alexandria, which included the famous Library of Alexandria. There she studied geography, ... by her were lost in the fire of 391 AD, when the great Library of Alexandria was destroyed. Famous physician Galen ...

Joanna Gillan - 15/05/2022 - 22:58

Nova Anglia, The Forgotten Anglo-Saxon Enclave In Ukraine

... by Matthew Paris.( 13th century) Cambridge University Library ( Public Domain ) On the evening of October 13 1066, ...

Jake Leigh-Howarth - 11/01/2023 - 20:50

Papyrus Rolls Roling From Egypt To The Roman Empire

... for a donkey, papyrus; 19.3 by 7.2 cm, (126 AD) Houghton Library, Harvard University ( Public Domain ) Exporting ...

Dr John Gaudet - 20/10/2023 - 17:28

Aion: The Demiurge and the Destiny of Man in the Teachings of Hermes Trismegistus

... of several Hermetic texts in codex 6 of the Nag Hammadi Library (NHC 6), and several fragments located in the Bodleian Library at Oxford (OH) and in Vienna (VH). While these ...

Jason Jarrell - 16/05/2022 - 18:26

Medieval Remedy Could Treat Antibiotic-Resistant Infections

... The actual eyesalve remedy text. (Image: © The British Library Board (Royal 12 D xvii)) Anglo-Saxon Manuscripts Hold ...

Ed Whelan - 29/07/2020 - 21:49

Galen: A Famous Medical Researcher of Classical Antiquity

... was a bustling and flourishing city. Pergamum also had a library that almost rivalled the famed Library of Alexandria in Egypt, indicating that this was a ...

dhwty - 03/03/2016 - 03:48

Mystery of Ancient Buddhist Cave Temple Writing Solved

... the Dunhuang Research Academy in China and The British Library. Professor Haida Liang, head of the Imaging and ... the Legendary Home to a Thousand Buddhas and a Hidden Library The ancient manuscripts of Dunhuang Treacherous ...

ashley cowie - 04/01/2021 - 13:50

History’s REAL Faces: 15 Death Masks of Famous and Infamous Figures

... York, Harper & Brothers, 1894), and his ‘Talks in a Library’ (New York: G. P. Putnam's, 1905), recorded by ...

Joanna Gillan - 28/10/2022 - 01:59

Blarney Castle: 1,000 Years of Dramatic History and THAT Magical Stone That Brings Tourists Flocking

... of 1446. Kissing the Blarney Stone, 1897. National Library of Ireland. ( Public domain ) The Gift of Eloquence ...

dhwty - 06/07/2018 - 14:00

Hoax of the Century? The Truth About Pierre Plantard’s Priory of Sion

... to be a forgery created and planted in the National Library of France by Pierre Plantard and Philippe de ... planted within the archives of the French National Library in Paris. They also created fake medieval parchments ... but forged - documents that were found in the National Library of Paris, and planted there years before by ...

Aleksa Vučković - 28/12/2020 - 14:03