Nrken19
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Nrken19
@nrken19
Archeology, History, aDNA, Anthropology. 🇩🇰🇸🇪🇳🇴🇮🇸🇫🇴
Joined October 2019
- Illustrative comparison between Moorish and Christian towns in medievel Spain.
- Illustration of popular border patterns and their origins. Credit to The Archaeologist
- Had no idea about this “Sir Christopher Lee 21st and his ancestor Charlemagne, who was an emperor of the Holy Roman Empire in the 8th century.”
- What a development. Size comparison of the pleistocene wolf head found in Siberia and the head of a modern gray wolf.
- “The Greek historian Herodotus wrote in 430 BC that Scythians used wooden stakes to pose dead men atop dead horses in an open-air tableau around the graves of their kings. Excavations at Tunnug 1 suggest a similar display was created hundreds of years before Herodotus's account.”A 2,800-year-old royal burial in Siberia includes what archaeologists think were people posed on horseback — after both the humans and the horses had been slain as sacrifices go.nature.com/4eWGdv4
- Description of the Nuragic village in Tiscali, an Bronze Age settlement that was built inside a crater, Italy - Sardinia.
- Map showing the diaspora in America of each European country in relation to the country's population.
- Athenian women attacking the messenger who brings news that their husbands' died in battle. Illustration by Marek Szyszko.
- New rconstruction of St. Nicholas of Myra. Through forensic analysis of St. Nicholas of Myra’s skull, scientists have digitally reconstructed the face of the man who inspired the legend of Santa Claus.
