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imagine leaving your clothes on so long your skin grew over them...
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I saw a baby about 2 months old admitted to hospital - a neglect case. She was still wearing the same hospital issue nappy she had been wearing when discharged after birth. It had to be removed surgically. Poor mite would have been better off with the Stone Age Mum in the post above.
![]() The fascinating symbolic tattoos of an Ancient Egyptian woman found at Deir el-Medina are the very first of their kind. http://www.livescience.com/54687-egy...y-tattoos.html http://www.livescience.com/images/i/...ownsize=*:1400 |
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That is just horrific!
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I wonder if those who tattoo nowadays realise how distorted and unattractive they become as they age?
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To be fair not many of them will get to be over three thousand years old!
![]() Imagine being exposedeven after 3000 years! Oh, the embarrassment!
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The world's oldest ground-edge stone axe blade has been discovered in Windjana Gorge National Park,in the Kimberley region of Western Australia.
http://www.livescience.com/54722-ax-...ds-oldest.html http://www.livescience.com/54714-wor...ax-photos.html Five things to know about the Diamond Sutra - at over eleven hundred years it's the world's oldest printed book. http://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-...ook-180959052/ This passage about the fleeting nature of our lives is particularly beautiful. 'So you should view this fleeting world— A star at dawn, a bubble in a stream, A flash of lightening in a summer cloud, A flickering lamp, a phantom, and a dream.' |
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It is beautiful. It reminds me of this one:
'The present life of man upon earth, O King, seems to me in comparison with that time which is unknown to us like the swift flight of a sparrow through the mead-hall where you sit at supper in winter, with your Ealdormen and thanes, while the fire blazes in the midst and the hall is warmed, but the wintry storms of rain or snow are raging abroad. The sparrow, flying in at one door and immediately out at another, whilst he is within, is safe from the wintry tempest, but after a short space of fair weather, he immediately vanishes out of your sight, passing from winter to winter again. So this life of man appears for a little while, but of what is to follow or what went before we know nothing at all.”* The Venerable Bede |
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It is beautiful. It reminds me of this one:
'The present life of man upon earth, O King, seems to me in comparison with that time which is unknown to us like the swift flight of a sparrow through the mead-hall where you sit at supper in winter, with your Ealdormen and thanes, while the fire blazes in the midst and the hall is warmed, but the wintry storms of rain or snow are raging abroad. The sparrow, flying in at one door and immediately out at another, whilst he is within, is safe from the wintry tempest, but after a short space of fair weather, he immediately vanishes out of your sight, passing from winter to winter again. So this life of man appears for a little while, but of what is to follow or what went before we know nothing at all.”* The Venerable Bede ![]() A huge treasure trove of late Roman artifacts has been recovered from the waters of the ancient Mediterranean harbor of Caesarea. http://news.discovery.com/history/ar...ael-160516.htm http://news.discovery.com/history/ar...tos-160516.htm http://static.ddmcdn.com/gif/09-israel-shipreck.jpg |
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The standing female figure is like the statue of Liberty!
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The standing female figure is like the statue of Liberty!
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Did anyone see the programme a few months (or maybe many months
) ago where they found an entire city underwater. With the aid of cgi they showed yu what it woud have looked like when it was inhabited. Absolutely fascinating, it wasn't Pavlopetri.Any update on the hidden rooms in Tutankhamun's tomb? |
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Did anyone see the programme a few months (or maybe many months
) ago where they found an entire city underwater. With the aid of cgi they showed yu what it woud have looked like when it was inhabited. Absolutely fascinating, it wasn't Pavlopetri.Any update on the hidden rooms in Tutankhamun's tomb? ![]() As for the hiddens chambers in Tutankhamun's tomb - sadly it appears that there are none after all. But the whole situation has descended into political squabbling and controversy. http://news.nationalgeographic.com/2...r-archaeology/ http://www.theguardian.com/world/201...tomb-nefertiti http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencete...ies-walls.html http://www.livescience.com/54708-nef...-tut-tomb.html |
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I watch so many Planets that I have probably seen it but forgotten.
![]() As for the hiddens chambers in Tutankhamun's tomb - sadly it appears that there are none after all. But the whole situation has descended into political squabbling and controversy. http://news.nationalgeographic.com/2...r-archaeology/ http://www.theguardian.com/world/201...tomb-nefertiti http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencete...ies-walls.html http://www.livescience.com/54708-nef...-tut-tomb.html
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I watch so many Planets that I have probably seen it but forgotten.
![]() As for the hiddens chambers in Tutankhamun's tomb - sadly it appears that there are none after all. But the whole situation has descended into political squabbling and controversy. http://news.nationalgeographic.com/2...r-archaeology/ http://www.theguardian.com/world/201...tomb-nefertiti http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencete...ies-walls.html http://www.livescience.com/54708-nef...-tut-tomb.html Oh and the one on pavlopetri is great too!Thanks for the links i was hoping they would put all the squabbliing aside for once, i remember when a historian discovered the presence of cocaine in egyptian mummies (proving trade with south america much earlier than previously thought) and she got death threats!!! from other academics!!!!
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Keep your eye out for underwater cities
Oh and the one on pavlopetri is great too!Thanks for the links i was hoping they would put all the squabbliing aside for once, i remember when a historian discovered the presence of cocaine in egyptian mummies (proving trade with south america much earlier than previously thought) and she got death threats!!! from other academics!!!! ![]() ![]() It is a shame how Egyptology is always mired in conflict and contoversy but at least that bloody ego-maniac Zahi Hawass is not in charge anymore. |
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https://www.google.co.uk/search?clie...7ifAIwrYNwM%3A
Some pictures of the excavated Roman vila at Amalfi - open to the public this week. |
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Some pictures of the excavated Roman vila at Amalfi - open to the public this week. ![]() The mysteries of Teotihuacán are slowly being uncovered. ![]() http://www.smithsonianmag.com/histor...can-180959070/ |
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WOW how bright are the colours on those frescos?
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Very nice.
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Was there a World War Zero? http://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-...959152/?no-ist The mystery of the Welsh Hillforts. http://www.bbc.com/earth/story/20160...forts-on-hills |
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One of the earliest funeral feasts ever discovered.
http://www.bbc.com/earth/story/20160...-funeral-feast The complete mitochondrial genome of a 2,500-year-old Phoenician man has been sequenced. http://news.discovery.com/history/ar...ian-160525.htm |
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Neanderthals constructed these mysterious underground ring structures - around 176,500 years ago!
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The cave photos could be the setting for The Hobbit or the Lord of The Rings!
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) ago where they found an entire city underwater. With the aid of cgi they showed yu what it woud have looked like when it was inhabited. Absolutely fascinating, it wasn't Pavlopetri.
Oh and the one on pavlopetri is great too!