Tag: ancient
Ancient whale: Probably the fattest mammal of all time – visit to the paleontologist
Eli Amson is a paleontologist at the Natural History Museum Stuttgart. He examined the fossil bones of an ancient whale, probably the most colossal mammal. Dirty white, like a piece…
Chinese artist: Ai Weiwei depicts ancient works with Legos
Chinese artist Ai Weiwei depicts ancient works with Legos The wall-filling works recreate, for example, Claude Monet’s water lilies (beginning of the 20th century). photo © Britta Pedersen/dpa As is…
Artworks: Wes Anderson against political adaptation of ancient literature
works of art Wes Anderson against political adaptation of ancient literature Wes Anderson, director from the USA, with a photo © Cinzia Camela/LPS via ZUMA Press Wire/dpa The British author…
Society: Papua New Guinea: Attracting sharks with ancient songs
Company Papua New Guinea: Attracting sharks with ancient songs A man sits on a dead shark at the Shark Calling Festival. photo © Christina Steiner/Godfree Abage/Shark Calling Festival/dpa A mesmerizing…
Were there Buddhists in ancient Egypt? – Knowledge
Anyone who has ever heard of Herodotus’ giant gold-mining ants knows that people in ancient Greece had very imaginative ideas about the Indian subcontinent. According to the Greek historian, these…
Karen Radner is an expert on ancient Assyria. – Munich
After Karen Radner returned from Iraq in the spring, she dreamed of this trip for weeks. It was not dreams of fairy tales, myths or palaces that she would have…
Even the ancient Romans used standardized notepads – knowledge
A few years ago, workers building the Autostrada Pompeii – Salerno came across a buried house. It belonged to an ancient estate now known as Agro Murecine; as it turned…
In Hyrule or in ancient Egypt… When video games are played in walking mode
As soon as the game was released, we started receiving postcards from players… The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom was released on Nintendo this Friday. And a few…
What is inside the moon? Ancient mystery finally solved
Home page To know Created: 05/08/2023 04:48 am From: Tanya Banner Split The moon is quite well researched – but there are still mysteries that drive research. One of them…
Ancient sites in the Aegean
historians of the Aegean “Nowhere in the world is cultural exchange so intensive” Religion, language, music: the Aegean Sea seems to separate Europe from the Middle East. The Cambridge historian…