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Medieval Relic List Includes Santa’s Bone and Christ’s Crib
... in Latin and belongs to a collection of the Huntington Library in California. The holy relics were believed to have ... including Santa’s bone, in Battle Abbey. ( Huntington Library ) Santa’s Finger Bone Reveals Christmas Connections ...
Ed Whelan - 19/12/2019 - 18:06
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Deadly Poison Discovered on Medieval Book Covers Could Have Killed
... topics in the University of Southern Denmark’s library collection contain large concentrations of arsenic on ... these three rare books to the X-ray lab was because the library had previously discovered that medieval manuscript ... in their bedrooms are known to be factual. Now, the library stores our three poisonous volumes in separate ...
ancient-origins - 01/07/2018 - 14:04
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Medieval Men With ‘Unsuitable Seed’ Prescribed Ground Up Pig Testicals
... ground up pig testicles. A Medieval Medical Text (Wellcome Library Collection) New Study Shows that Men Were Blamed for ... days.” Another medieval book, located in the Wellcome Library in London, suggested that in order to stop sterility, ...
Theodoros Karasavvas - 31/07/2017 - 01:43
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Why Archaeology Is So Much More Than Just Digging
... about a fantastic ink and watercolor plan you unearthed in library archives, or an old work site you stumbled upon in ... Australian bush into a tamed cultivated field. ( Allport Library and Museum of Fine Arts, Tasmania Archive and ...
ancient-origins - 04/01/2019 - 01:51
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Brazen Bull: Gruesome Ancient Greek Torture Device Turned Screams into ‘Music’
... version of the story can be found in Diodorus Siculus’ Library of History . According to this ancient historian, the ... Diodorus Siculus, The Library of History [Online] [Oldfather, C. H. (trans.), 1933-1957. Diodorus Siculus’ The Library of History .] Available at: ...
dhwty - 26/04/2017 - 18:52
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The Forgotten Cleopatra: Searching for Cleopatra the Alchemist and Her Golden Secret
... helped women to flourish in science. ‘The Great Library of Alexandria.’ ( Public Domain ) The history of ... that were tucked away on the bookshelves of the great Library. There was also a strong scientific circle that ...
Natalia Klimczak - 21/02/2017 - 18:50
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The Golden Horde and the Mongol Mission to Conquer Europe
... the way. The Mongols in Hungary 1285. Széchényi National Library, Budapest, fol. 64 verso, Inv. no. Clmae 404 (the ... From the Chronicum Pictum in Hungary's National Library. ( Public Domain ) The dismounted Mongols, with ... U.S. Library of Congress, CountryStudies.us. The Golden Horde. ...
Mark Miller - 19/10/2018 - 14:02
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‘Blank’ Dead Sea Scroll Fragments Reveal Hidden Message
... of Manchester. They are now held in the John Ryland Library, which is “one of the world’s greatest ... the Dead Sea Scroll fragments in the John Rylands Library Reading Room. ( University of Manchester ) One ... on the Dead Sea fragments held at the John Rylands Library and the findings are expected to be published in an ...
Ed Whelan - 19/05/2020 - 22:45
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Books Bound in Human Skin – The Practice Isn’t As Rare As You Might Think!
... whose skins were used as bindings. A book in the Wellcome Library bound in human skin. (Wellcome Library / CC BY-SA 4.0 ) Famous Examples of Anthropodermic ...
dhwty - 12/01/2019 - 23:03
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Massive Medieval Tannery Identified at Spectacular Fountains Abbey
... after drying during leather production. ( Nürnberg City Library ) Fountains Abbey Filled with Devilish Stench The two ... Leather-bound ancient text from Fountains Abbey. ( British Library ) An Industrial Scale Tannery for the Preservation of ...
ashley cowie - 26/10/2021 - 22:55
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Ancient Advanced Technology Reveals Itself in Egyptian Papyrus Ink
... named Horus as well as documents from the Tebtunis temple library. These papyri fragments are stored in the Papyrus ... of Copenhagen. Fragment from the Tebtunis temple library in the Papyrus Carlsberg Collection. ( University of ...
ancient-origins - 11/11/2017 - 22:50
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Ancient Necropolis Found Hidden in 17th Century Croatian Palace Garden
... discovery while excavating in preparation of a new island library. ( Kantharos ) Could Hvar Necropolis Really be the ... excavating the area in preparation for a new island library . During this work they found the ancient necropolis ...
ashley cowie - 20/06/2021 - 18:41
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Mali Manuscripts Rescued and Digitized to Celebrate the Malian Renaissance
... Timbuktu in 2012 destroyed ancient Mali manuscripts in a library. ( Mali Magic / Google Arts & Culture ) The African ... with faith, and the establishment of the grandest library in Africa, in modern day Timbuktu . Mali was now ...
Sahir - 11/03/2022 - 17:30
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Mayan Writings
... hear that Johann Christian Götze, Director of the Royal Library at Dresden, obtained the codex from the private owner ... in Vienna in 1739. In 1744, Götze gave it to the Royal Library, where it still resides. (The library's current name is the Sächsische Landesbibliothek). ...
Ancient Times - 03/10/2014 - 22:02
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Heracles and the Mares of Diomedes: Greek Hero VS Man-Eating Beasts
... Fearsome Horses Pseudo-Apollodorus recounts in his Library that these mares belonged to King Diomedes of the ... By Carly Silver References: Apollodorus. The Library . Translated by Sir James George Frazer. New York: ... York: G.P. Putnam and Sons, 1917. Siculus, Diodorus. The Library of History . Volume 2. Translated by C.H. Oldfather. ...
Carly Silver - 28/04/2017 - 14:06
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Chet Van Duzer
... Renaissance Maps was published last year by the British Library, and this year the Library of Congress will publish a study of Christopher ... Pierre Desceliers, which will be published by the British Library. A detailed list of his publications is available at ...
ancient-origins - 08/02/2013 - 12:02
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The Evolution of Sea Monsters on Medieval Maps
A recently published book published by the British Library charts the evolution of iconic sea serpents, mermaids ... Sea Monsters on Medieval and Renaissance Maps" (British Library, 2013) depict a range of ‘sea monsters’ which ... they were just made up," Van Duzer, a map historian at the Library of Congress, said in a talk about his book. "But, in ...
aprilholloway - 07/09/2013 - 00:21
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Inscription on Coffin Discovered to be Oldest Egyptian Soul Map
... the oldest Book of Two Ways. Harco Willems / SAGE Journals Library of the Afterlife Archaeologists have only ever ...
ashley cowie - 09/10/2019 - 14:00
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Niflheim in Norse Mythology: Land of the Dead and Home to Lady Hel
... original and its digitized versions belong to the British Library. . (Henry Wheaton / British Library / Public domain ) Niflheim and the Norse Creation ...
Robbie Mitchell - 05/10/2022 - 01:50
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Columbus’s Identity Crisis and the Ongoing Spread of False Columbus News
... Colom means pigeon in Catalan. ( The New York Public Library ) This minor misspelling by Posa was probably an ... the printing error of the name as “Columbo.” (Source: Library of Congress, Control Number: 46031077 ) Those who ... of Columbus to Luis de Santangel, 1493. New York Public Library. Available online: ...
Manuel Rosa - 23/09/2021 - 14:37