An American soldier examines an (ineffective) Nazi bent barrel attachment for the STG-44, WW2, sometime after 1943?
More castle cutaway
British riflemen at the Battle of Waterloo, 1815 AD
Migration to the Americas Potentially Occurred 7,000 Years Earlier Than Thought (www.ancient-origins.net)
One of archaeology's most hotly debated topics, the arrival of humans in the Americas, has received an added impetus. New evidence emerged from Parsons Island
Castle cutaway
Etruscan hanging lamp, bronze, ~480 BCE
Sara Forbes Bonetta, goddaughter of Queen Victoria, 1862
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Congolese megaphone with a crocodile motif, wood, ~18th century AD
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50,000-year-old Neanderthal bones harbor oldest-known human viruses (www.livescience.com)
Neanderthals who lived 50,000 years ago were infected with three viruses that still affect modern humans today, researchers have discovered....
Steamship 'Princess May' run aground, Alaska, USA, 1910
Soldiers of the 19th Indian Infantry Division, Italy, WW2, 1943 (colorized)
Steel dagger, Indian subcontinent, Early 17th century AD
German boar-hunting sword, 16th century AD
Those machines were whack
Remnants of the Cathedral of the Holy Saviour of Congo, modern-day Angola
Philip II of Macedon being struck with an arrow during a siege - his helmet saving his life, but not his eye
Integrating human endogenous retroviruses into transcriptome-wide association studies highlights novel risk factors for major psychiatric conditions - Nature Communications (www.nature.com)
Snippet: HERVs are “non-coding” sequences comprising of genetic material that originated from the infection of germ cells with ancient retroviruses during evolution, which now constitute approximately 8% of the human genome7,8,9. After the initial infections took place, these sequences inserted in the genome and multiplied...
Absolute dating of the European Neolithic using the 5259 BC rapid 14C excursion - Nature Communications (doi.org)
The Neolithic site of Dispilio, Northern Greece, is a pile-dwelling site with 900+ piles excavated. Here, the authors use the 5259 BC Miyake event to date the juniper tree-ring chronology constructed from these piles to 5140 BC, making it the first Neolithic site in the region to be absolutely calendar dated.
Beautiful Etruscan earrings, Italy, 6th century BCE
US soldier spraying the inside of an Italian house with DDT for malaria control, 1945
Roman watchtower reconstruction and scale model
Bronze shaving razor, Roman, 1st-2nd century AD
The first lithic study of level VI-B at the Mumba site in Tanzania reveals Middle Stone Age industry (phys.org)
Irene Solano Megías, a predoctoral researcher at the Centro Nacional de Investigación sobre la Evolución Humana (CENIEH), has just published the first techno-typological study of the most ancient lithic industry of level VI-B at the Mumba rockshelter in the journal African Archaeological Review. This site lies in the Lake...