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BY Culture24
14.01.2016
New John Dee discovery reveals resemblance to mother and mysterious 'dwarf'
Tantalising clues about the family of Tudor magician John Dee emerge from a newly deciphered manuscript The writing found inside a 1547 treatise on how to cast horoscopes © RCP and John Chase...
BY Culture24
18.01.2016
Shakespeare, Darwin, human dissection and oracle bones: Ten of Cambridge University's greatest treasures
As an exhibition prepares to mark 600 years of Cambridge University Library, take a look at some of the treasures from 3,000 years of human thought The Origin of Species - scribbled on by Darwin's...
BY EUROPEANA
13.01.2016
European composers: sound, image and text
Welcome to the first blog based around the newly launched Europeana Music Collections site ! This is an exciting opportunity to showcase some of the most beautiful, interesting and entertaining...
BY Culture24
13.01.2016
Florence Nightingale's letter about "vision" which called her to nursing set for first display in public
Florence Nightingale’s call to nursing detailed in a newly discovered letter © Leeds Museums and Galleries An unseen letter from Florence Nightingale detailing the “vision” which called her to...
BY Culture24
13.01.2016
Object of the Week: Fertility figures from an ancient civilization in Bronze Age Pakistan and India
This week we bring you a set of sculptures which could have been fertility figures in prehistoric Asia © Courtesy Horsham Museum and Art Gallery Found by an anonymous collector and said to have been...
BY Culture24
14.01.2016
A home from 2,000 years ago: the Iron Age roundhouse excavated by archaeologists in a Northamptonshire village
An Iron Age roundhouse is at the centre of a settlement from more than 2,000 years ago excavated in Welford Nine trenches were dug at a site in Welford in 2015 © ULAS These footprints of an Iron Age...
BY Culture24
12.01.2016
Roman discoveries shock archaeologists at Northampton's 12th century Delapre Abbey
High-quality pottery has predated archaeologists' expected finds by 1,000 years at a former monastery Iain Soden (right) with Councillor Tim Hadland, of Northampton Borough Council, at the town's...
BY EUROPEANA
11.01.2016
Sounds to celebrate Capricorn!
This is a guest post by Tom Miles from The British Library . This post appeared first on January 7, 2016 on Europeana Sounds blog . A happy new year to all of you. At Europeana Sounds...
BY Culture24
11.01.2016
"Pretty spectacular" finds at Roman cemetery show Carlisle "wasn't just a place where hairy barbarians were selling cows", say archaeologists
Carlisle was a significant Roman settlement, say archaeologists excavating area associated with town of Luguvalium A honey jar cremation urn found in a burial pit by archaeologists at Botchergate in...
BY Culture24
11.01.2016
In Pictures: Flying Scotsman returns to steam for the first time in a decade
In Pictures: Flying Scotsman in steam once again In the early hours of Friday morning engineers prepared to light the fire of Flying Scotsman, as it prepared to take to the tracks under steam for...
BY Culture24
12.01.2016
"Best-preserved Bronze Age dwellings ever found in Britain" discovered in Cambridgeshire
A 3,000-year-old roundhouse offers an unprecedented appreciation of life in Bronze Age Britain Wood specialist Mike Bamforth examines the base of a Bronze Age wooden bucket at Must Farm © Cambridge...
BY Culture24
08.01.2016
Stunning images of space from the Natural History Museum's Otherworlds exhibition
Stunning images from our solar system as featured in a new Natural History Museum exhibition by artist, curator and writer Michael Benson who has painstakingly processed data from NASA and ESA...
BY Culture24
08.01.2016
Faeces and lice combs show Roman toilets and baths failed to stop spread of intestinal parasites
Faecal parasites increased and fish sauce spread tapeworm during rule of Roman empire Experts say toilet seats such as this 2,000-year-old example, found at the former Vindolanda fort to the south...
BY EUROPEANA
06.01.2016
Art of Adoration: Jesus and the three Magi
The adoration of baby Jesus by the Magi, or the Adoration of the Magi as it’s known, is a popular motif in Christian art. All sorts of famous artists from Leonardo da Vinci to Sandro Botticelli and...
BY Culture24
05.01.2016
The big guns: Arsenal of B98 German destroyer from World War One Battle of Jutland heads to Portsmouth
A century after the Battle of Jutland, two guns from Orkney are about to form part of a powerful exhibition in Portsmouth © NMRN This is what curators call the “business end” of the German B98...
BY Culture24
04.01.2016
Skeleton of middle-aged man found beneath school playground in Scotland could have belonged to executed pirate
Pirate could have been discarded in shallow grave on wasteland, say archaeological team who found prehistoric settlement at London school The skeleton of a man discovered in a school playground...
BY Culture24
04.01.2016
"Mental cases", parasites, brandy injections and food complaints: First World War hospital ship diaries go online
More than 200 war diaries of hospitals and hospital ships for soldiers and animals have been put online, covering the First World War to 1920 © National Archives Setting up hospitals in...
BY EUROPEANA
28.12.2015
League of Angels
Do you believe in angels? If you don’t believe in them, you’ll certainly have heard of them. But what do they do for us humans? Abraham with the three Angels...
Cyprus Food and Nutrition Museum
27.12.2015
“Φαγητό του δρόμου: αποτυπώνοντας την κουλτούρα του φαγητού στην Κύπρο”
Το Μουσείο Κυπριακών Τροφίμων και Διατροφής (ΜΚΤΔ), σε συνεργασία με τον Φωτογραφικό και Κινηματογραφικό Όμιλο Έγκωμης, προκηρύσσουν φωτογραφικό διαγωνισμό με θέμα: “Φαγητό του δρόμου: αποτυπώνοντας...
BY Culture24
06.01.2016
