One of the most intriguing and mysterious ancient sites in Britain is Stonehenge, which continues to this day to captivate and fascinate the public. Standing in solitude in the hills of Wiltshire and pre-dating the pyramids of Egypt, the ‘henge‘ itself was constructed first. A henge is formed in the…
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Eat Your Breakfast! Archaeologist Finds a Cave Full of Stone Age Cereal
Newsis breaking of a new discovery made by a Canadian archaeologist based in Calgary. Professor Julio Mercader, of the University of Calgary, has found evidence in a Mozambique cave thatHomo Sapienswere eating wild grains as early as100,000 years ago. The discoveryisreported today in the journal Science. It’s being touted as…
Hello Toi Moko: Sweden Returns Tattooed Maori Heads to New Zealand
Preserved Mori heads donated to a museum by a collector with a keen interest in natural history. A hand and a few odd bones gifted to a Swedish museum by a sea faring captain. According to details released this week to coincide with the repatriation of Mori ancestral remains to…
Romans Join Fight Against Wind Turbine Plans
Locals in the north of England will use their areas rich Roman heritage to fight a major electricity suppliers plans to build wind turbines near their village. RWE npower Renewables one of the UK’s leading renewable energy providers wants to build up to six turbines as part of its Stobhill…
Seeing Creatively and Photo Composition
As artists and photographers, we are constantly striving to see the world through different eyes… always looking for another perspective of the beauty we behold everyday. There is always something else to see, another angle to try, another ray of light casting shadows on a prospective work of art. Let…
Brooklyn Museum Exhibition Reveals More Than the Sum of its Body Parts
I dropped my phone last week and it stopped working. As the daughter, sister, and wife of engineers, I generally regard most broken things as a challenge and I am quite often able to fix them, so I gathered tiny screwdrivers and a good light source and prised the handset…
Face-off: King Tut’s Senet Board ‘v’ Lewis Chessmen
In the age of video games, board games might not be the popular pastime they once were. But they have a venerable history. Board games originate thousands of years ago as a spare-time preoccupation of the upper-castes of civilizations from South America to China, Egypt and northern Europe. Each ancient…
Honey for my Honey: Ancient Aphrodisiacs
Although Viagra was launched onto the market in 1998 as the new wonder drug for virility, what the makers didnt realise is that its actually been around naturally and has been used since the time of the pyramids. In ancient Egypt, the blue lily was linked to fertility and sexuality…
Rome’s Ancient Via Tiburtina: From Neolithic Shepherds to Roma Gypsy Camps
An illegal Roma gypsy camp might be one of the last places you’d expect to find yourself on an expedition in search of an ancient Roman bridge. But this is what happened to Professor Hans Bjur and his colleagues as they were researching their project on the historical and modern…
Sandro Vannini’s Photography – The Ritual Beds of King Tutankhamun
Three ritual beds were found inside the Tomb of King Tutankhamun (KV62), made up of four pieces of gilded wood and bound together with hooks and staples. Assembly instructions were painted on the beds in black paint, with each bed representing a different animal deity. The ritual beds are on…