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Hereditary or Head-Binding? Archaeologist Seeks Answers on the Strange Achavanich Beaker Burial
In 1987, the remains of an 18-22-year-old woman, now dubbed Ava, were discovered at Achavanich in ... was undoubtedly a special burial. The remains of the young woman were probably interred in a crouched position in the ... research is undertaken." The skull of the Bronze Age woman found in the Achavanich Beaker burial. ( M. Hoole ) On ...
Alicia McDermott - 16/02/2016 - 14:54
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4,000-Year-Old Chinese Earthquake Victims Captured in their Final Moments
... sought refuge in the hope of survival. The remains of a woman and child, probably a boy, are preserved against one of the walls. The woman’s skull looks upwards as her arms encircle the child. Another woman and child can be seen upstairs in a similar posture ...
Robin Whitlock - 02/07/2023 - 19:00
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The World’s Oldest Talking Vagina is Discovered…in an Austrian Abbey!
... The Rose Thorn’ ( Der Rosendorn ), an argument between a woman and her vulva as to who offers men more pleasure, and ... by men. Convinced her appearance is what men love, the woman is contradicted by her vagina who advises her not to ... cannot separate a person from their sex ”. A medieval woman painting a self-portrait. ( Public Domain ) While it ...
ashley cowie - 28/07/2019 - 14:00
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Adam’s First Wife Lilith: Diabolical Demoness or the First Feminist?
... formed man out of the dust of the ground and then created woman from the side (not rib) of man: “Then the Lord God ... that the Lord God had taken from the man, He made into a woman and brought her to the man” (Genesis 2:7, 21–22). ... in the Torah’s two creation narratives. God created woman twice—once with man, once from man’s side; so there ...
Rabbi Allen Maller - 01/04/2023 - 02:00
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5 Outrageous Fashion Trends from the Ancient World
... Beauty in Ancient Rome The ideal Roman female was a woman of extraordinary white skin as it was evidence to onlookers that the woman spent much of her time indoors, thus was wealthy enough ... laymen. However, since the natural skin tone of a Roman woman was closer to olive than ivory, there was still a ...
lizleafloor - 22/02/2021 - 13:59
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Patasola: The Destructive Femme Fatale of the South American Jungle
... the seductress, the femme fatale (French for “Deadly Woman”) is one of the oldest female archetypes. Although ... Sutra: Setting the Record Straight Selling Sex: Wonder Woman and the Ancient Fantasy of Lady Warriors That Goes Back Millennia This seductive, mysterious and alluring woman, enchants, charms, and ensnares would-be lovers into ...
ashley cowie - 14/01/2018 - 18:39
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Scientists Prove Legends of “Negritos” on Taiwan
... 4.0 ) Measuring Up the Semi-Mythological Ancient Negrito Woman Archaeologists recently discovered a female human ... north of Donghe on the eastern coastline of Taiwan. The woman's remains were carefully laid in a squatting position ... “cranial morphometric analysis” on the ancient woman’s skull. This scientific discipline quantifies ...
ashley cowie - 10/10/2022 - 14:58
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The Greek God Zeus: The Insatiable Womanizer of Mount Olympus
... king of Crete), and Helen of Troy , the most beautiful woman in the world according to Greek mythology. The ...
dhwty - 25/10/2022 - 01:56
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Extraordinary Twin Viking Boat Burial Found in Norway
... a spindle whorl . Life in Norway reports that “The dead woman's clothes were fastened with a bronze-plated ... . It appears that instead of digging a new grave for the woman her relatives had her buried in one that was about 100 ... Boat Burial Found in Scotland was Made for a Warrior Woman Vikings Brutally Slain in 750 AD May Have Been on a ...
Ed Whelan - 21/11/2019 - 01:46
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The Story of Carmilla: Literature’s First Vampire Was Actually a Woman
... in the following months. People claimed that a village woman, the first victim of the vampire Arnaut Pavle, had once ... of Carmilla: Literature’s First Vampire Was Actually a Woman ...
Aleksa Vučković - 04/02/2022 - 18:00
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Pope Joan: The Female Pope Whose Gender was Revealed When She Gave Birth in a Procession
... recorded in the list of Bishops of Rome because she was a woman disguised as a man. The chronicler goes on to say that it was this woman’s character and talents that enabled her to occupy ... Peter, Father of Fathers, betray the childbearing of the woman pope.” However, de Mailly begins this narrative with ...
dhwty - 22/10/2020 - 01:40
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Tomb Hidden by History, Now Revealed: Wet Nurse of Tutankhamun May have been His Own Sister
... Tutankhamun is believed to have been wet-nursed by a woman named Maia—who may have been his sister. The tomb of this mysterious woman has been opened to the public for the first time since ... simply the private wet nurse to Tutankhamun, but a woman of high status, and likely his eldest sister Maia (also ...
lizleafloor - 21/12/2015 - 21:50
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Archaeologists Find the First Example of a Harappan Couple Burial
... excavated in India Experts Believe a Bronze Age Woman Willingly Joined Her Husband in the Afterlife ... how they discovered that the skeletons are of a man and woman. The scientists examined each pelvis. Lead ... decided the man was about 172 cm (5.64 ft.) tall and the woman was more or less 160 cm (5.25 ft.) tall. But the ...
Alicia McDermott - 11/01/2019 - 13:58
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Excavation reveals bizarre Celtic burial with hybrid-animal bone arrangements
... Dorset, England, are believed to have sacrificed a young woman by slitting her throat, before burying her body in a ... myths from the Mediterranean and Near East about bird-woman harpies, goat-lion chimeras, eagle-lion griffins, ... a human skeleton,” reports The Independent. “A young woman appears to have been sacrificed (there was an ...
Mark Miller - 12/07/2015 - 22:04
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Metallurgical Key Unlocking Samson’s Lion Riddle
... went down to Timnah and saw there a young Philistine woman. When he returned, he said to his father and mother: ‘I have seen a Philistine woman in Timnah; now get her for me as my wife’… Samson ... what he had done. Then he went down and talked with the woman, and he liked her. Some time later, when he went back ...
Felice Vinci - 30/10/2023 - 16:42
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X-ray Tech Reveals Remarkable Roman Artistry Hidden Under Ash of Vesuvius
... grime, salt, humidity. The ancient painting of a Roman woman has been through it all, and it looks like it. ... grime, salt, humidity. The ancient painting of a Roman woman has been through it all, and it looks like it. ... have done most of the damage. The portrait of the young woman, for instance, was only excavated about 70 years ago. ...
ancient-origins - 23/08/2017 - 01:55
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Mothers’ Lives in Ancient Greece Were Not Easy – But Celebrations of Their Love Have Survived Across the Centuries
As a father of three and the husband of an amazing woman, I know that one day a year is far too little to ... As a father of three and the husband of an amazing woman, I know that one day a year is far too little to ... stele from circa 425 to 400 BC, depicting a seated woman leaving her newborn child to a nurse, funerary stele. ( ...
ancient origins - 13/05/2023 - 15:00
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Urraca the Reckless: How Did a Child Bride Unify a Kingdom?
... continued since the 12th century. Who was this remarkable woman whose story keeps its unique sparkle among the tales of ... some time, she was allowed to study more like a man than a woman. The Spanish Inquisition: The Truth behind the Dark ... texts related to the history of Urraca, we can also see a woman who was self-confident and aware of her power and ...
Natalia Klimczak - 26/03/2017 - 23:01
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The Ancient Maya Apparition Who Showed the Way to Xunantunich
... the site from 1996 to 1997. The Legend of the ‘Stone Woman’ Xunantunich, which is a Yucatec Maya word, means ‘Stone Woman’. According to 19 th century local folklore, a man saw a beautiful Maya woman standing on a mound. Frightened by the figure, he ran ...
Ed Whelan - 01/07/2019 - 01:50
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Bubbling Brews and Broomsticks: How Alewives Became the Stereotypical Witch
"Brewing", "herbs," "broomsticks," "woman." When one hears these words together, most often the ... demand by consumers. "Brewing", "herbs," "broomsticks," "woman." When one hears these words together, most often the ... who knew the procedure of brewing would have allowed the woman more freedom to run a proper alehouse if she chose to ...
Riley Winters - 16/07/2021 - 02:01