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Killer Rabbits Terrorized the Pages of Medieval Manuscripts

... in the 1340s AD and are currently kept at the British Library in London. Beautiful, Decorative, and Sometimes ... rabbit in the Smithfield Decretals, c. 1300, British Library, London, UK. Detail. (British Library/ CC BY 4.0 ) By Ashley Cowie References K, ...

ashley cowie - 15/05/2022 - 14:59

Mother Shipton’s Cave of Magic, Mystery, and Prophecy

... the result of critical examination in the British Museum Library of the literature relating to the Yorkshire sibyl.’ ... The result of critical examination in the British Museum Library, of the literature relating to the Yorkshire sibyl , ...

Natalia Klimczak - 31/07/2020 - 23:11

Old Maps and Hi-Tech Scans Reveal A Lost City’s Watery Past at Jerash Jordan

... the Oval Piazza at Jerash from 1898 (Image courtesy of Library of Congress, Prints & Photographs Division, ...

ashley cowie - 01/06/2018 - 23:20

Geologists Determine Early Earth Was a 'Water World'

... Australia . Previous studies meant there was already a big library of geochemical data from the site. Johnson joined ... After taking his own rock samples and digging into the library of existing data, Johnson created a cross-section ...

ancient-origins - 04/03/2020 - 13:46

The Zeno Map And Travels Of the 14th-Century Venetian Zeno Brothers

... he found five long letters of his ancestors in the family library and that he was able to proceed with a careful ... he adds that, having found them as a child in the family library and not comprehending their value he had irreparably ...

Pierluigi Tombetti - 11/12/2020 - 19:47

The Cursed Amethyst: Trail of Misfortune and Misery Follows Ancient Gem

... of the Delhi purple sapphire. ( Wake Forest University Library ) This disaster confirmed to Heron-Allen that the ...

ashley cowie - 20/09/2020 - 13:45

AI Tool Deciphers Herculaneum Scroll, and It’s All About Pleasure!

... ash during the 79 AD eruption of Mount Vesuvius . The Only Library Ever Recovered from Antiquity: The 1800 Scrolls of ... of Philodemus, the philosopher-in-residence at the library which once housed the Herculaneum papyri. As such, ...

ashley cowie - 06/02/2024 - 21:15

Epic Battle between Goths and Greeks Revealed in Long Lost Ancient Text

... 11 th century manuscript that was in the Austrian National Library. Two historians, Christopher Mallan of Oxford ... Thermopylae battle. Credit: Vienna, Austrian National Library, manuscript Hist. gr. 73, fol. 193r lower text. By ...

Mark Miller - 20/03/2016 - 00:06

Mummy Brown – 16th Century Paint Made from Ground Up Mummies

... for an eel or a snake. Now in the collection of the Bolton Library in England. (Geni / CC BY-SA 4.0 ) Using Ground ...

dhwty - 19/04/2022 - 01:55

Sati Widow-Burning: A Dark Chapter in Indian History

... from the 19th century Kalighat paintings. (The Bodleian Library / CC BY 4.0 ) Different Types of Sati Execution in ...

Robbie Mitchell - 05/04/2023 - 14:45

Three ancient cities to rival London, Paris and New York

... was also very proud of being a scholar, and owned a library of more than 30,000 clay tablets gathered from all across the Neo-Assyrian empire. The library contained texts about omens and oracles, epics and ... were very adept – this would have been the British Library of its day. Antioch-on-the-Orontes Moving on in time ...

ancient-origins - 29/09/2015 - 21:46

Ancient Jewish necropolis in Israel given worldwide recognition

... looted over the centuries, says the website Jewish Virtual Library . Walls of the caves and halls are decorated with ... of typical inscriptions, as given at the Jewish Virtual Library: In Hebrew: This is the resting place of Yudan, son ...

Mark Miller - 06/07/2015 - 22:02

Margaret Murray - Mother of Egyptology, Grandmother of Wicca, or Fairy Godmother?

... to unwrap or not to unwrap? Stash of Books from the Witch Library of Nazi Chief Himmler Found in Prague Saint, Witch or ... Murray, located at the UCL Institute of Archaeology library. ( CC BY-SA 3.0 ) The Tale of Margaret A photograph ...

Natalia Klimczak - 02/04/2017 - 22:56

New Study Unveils the Face of Egypt's Iconic Pharaoh Tutankhamun

... CT scan. (Left, Courtesy of Florida Gulf Coast University Library Archives and Special Collections, Florida Gulf Coast ...

Gary Manners - 01/06/2023 - 22:59

Rodinia: The Great Unconformity and the Creation of Life on Earth

... CC BY-SA 4.0 ) The Great Unconformity – The Lost Great Library of Life? There are many unanswered questions ... a geological equivalent to the loss of the Great Library of Alexandria . Just as the loss of that ancient library left unknown the level of knowledge attained in the ...

Caleb Strom - 26/03/2022 - 21:59

Nearly One Hundred 1,000-Year-Old Mysterious Manuscripts Discovered in Afghanistan

... brought them to Israel, he gave permission to the National Library to study them. A genizah is a storage area in a ... ). Inset: Fragment from the manuscript. Credit: National Library of Israel / Wikipedia By Natalia Klimzcak Nearly One ...

Natalia Klimczak - 14/06/2016 - 21:52