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Otzi the Iceman’s Medicine Kit Included Sloe Berries (Prunus Spinosa)
Sloebewrries or Blackthorn Berries – Prunus spinosa (image public domain) By Patrick Hunt – Otzi the Iceman from the Alpine Tyrol, found at...
The Sea is a Path
Captain James Cook and the HMS Endeavor, portrait of Nathaniel Dance-Holland, 1774 and Gregory Robinson (combined image courtesy of The Australian, 2017) By...
“Baghdad Battery” : Possible Beer Purification?
Sumerian cylinder seal relief of beer drinking, Ur, ca. 2500 BCE (image public domain) By Adrian Arima – How long have humans brewed beer? Patrick...
The Most Expensive Wine Bottle in the World
By Nikki Goddard – For most people, splurging on a bottle of wine would mean spending fifty, maybe one hundred dollars. However, when it comes to the finest...
Chinese Jade: The Stone of Eternity
Chinese Qing Dynasty Jade ca 1730-95, “Philosopher’s Repose” Jade Mountain (image public domain) By Patrick Hunt – Jade is well known...
The Farnese Atlas
By Alice Devine Wilson – Wander into the enormous Roman sculpture galleries of the National Archaeological Museum in Naples, Italy and a strapping man carrying...
Napoleon Superstar
Napoleon at the Great St. Bernard Pass, Jacque-Louis David, 1801, Belvedere Gallery, Vienna by Andrea M. Gáldy, with Stefanie Fricke, Sabrina Kessler, Felicitas...
Art and Science in Southern Germany: Hidden Gems II
Abbey of Ottobeuren, near Memmingen, Bavaria (image courtesy of www.slideshare.net) By Andrea M. Gáldy – Southern Germany offers more than skiing holidays...
The Antikythera Mechanism – Identifying its Place of Origin?
Antikythera Mechanism, circa late 3rd to late 2nd c BCE (image in public domain) By Douglas McElwain Antikythera Mechanism The Antikythera Mechanism was discovered...
Egyptian Kingship and Animal Husbandry
Osiris holding crook and flail (Image in public domain) By Patrick Hunt – What is the relationship between ancient Egyptian kingship and animal husbandry,...
