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European history, culture and heritage, posted from Northumberland.
Skull of a Roman legionary who died during the Gallic Wars around 52 BC.
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During the excavation prompted by upcoming construction activities by US chip manufacturer Intel, archaeologists from the State Office for Heritage Management and Archaeology Saxony-Anhalt (LDA) have unearthed a significant burial landscape dating back to the Neolithic period on the Eulenberg near Magdeburg, Germany. Further analysis indicates that the area remained culturally significant for generations. Around a millennium later, during the Globular Amphora Culture (GAC) period (3300–2800 BCE), the space between the mounds served as a processional route. Along this route, archaeologists found evidence of cattle sacrifices and human burials, highlighting the spiritual and ritualistic significance attributed to the site.
Susanne Friederich, an archaeologist from the State Office for Heritage Management and Archaeology, reflected on the significance of the discoveries: “Our ancestors recreated scenes from their lives here, offering cattle—the guarantee of life—to the gods.”
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If you've seen any of my artwork in Aegeon, you might have noticed I prefer to work with just old fashioned charcoal or pencil. After seeing some of the inspiring work on here however, I decided to give painting another try for the first time since high school. Of course when my little one seen the paints coming out, she just had to have a 'pink bird', so I couldn't say no. Hopefully with a bit more practice, I might try my hand at some history themed scenes.
Researchers have unearthed two unknown Doric-style temples in the ancient city of Poseidonia-Paestum, located in the present-day Province of Salerno, Campania, Italy.
One temple, dating back to the early 5th century BCE, revealed well-preserved architectural remnants of the stylobate, measuring 11.5 x 7.6 meters. This temple features four-sided peristatis columns surrounding the inner sanctuary (cella), potentially housing cult images or statues representing revered deities.
Poseidonia, originally founded as a Greek colony around 600 BCE, emerged as a significant religious center, boasting three expansive temples dedicated to Hera and Athena, constructed in the Archaic interpretation of the Greek Doric order.
Archaeologists have discovered a bog body in peatland near Bellaghy, Northern Ireland. Dated to around 500BC and thought to be a boy between the age of 13-17, researchers were able to recover bits of skin, fingernails, toenails and "possibly a kidney," according to the statement. While most of his bones were recovered, his skull remains missing and researchers are unsure if it was separated from his body before or after his death.
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Youngsters take part in this years Junior Up Helly Aa. Lerwick, Shetland Isles.
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Just as our enemies are using theirs to dismantle our identity, culture as history.. We can use ours to build it back up again.
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A must watch video about our ancestors attitudes toward cowardice and fear.
Neolithic rock art from Newgrange, Co Meath. 3200 BC
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Archaeologists have revealed that the Herlaugshaugen burial mound in Leka, Trøndelag County, Norway, was indeed the site of a ship burial.
Dated at around 700AD, it is the oldest ship burial discovered so far in Scandinavia (although there are burials in Vendel and Valsgärde in Sweden involving smaller boats that date to the 7th century) and indicates the practice of burying people in large ships started much earlier than previously thought. Unsurprising when you consider the Sutton Hoo ship burial in England, was dated to the early 7th century.
Geir Grønnesby, an archaeologist at the NTNU University Museum who was project manager for the dig, has said It also indicates that ship technology and "maritime competence" in the region were at a higher level earlier than previously believed.
The Yuletide theme this year at Bamburgh Castle, is inspired by the myths and legends of Northumberland.
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The 'inexplicable' decisions of Western governments lately are very explicable when you realise what it's all in aid of: Deliberately making the cost of living untenable for the working and middle classes.
• Wars that can be blamed for hindering food, gas and energy supplies (thus making them more expensive).
• Huge inflation and inflationary central bank policy.
• Rising taxes (blamed on inflation and war).
• An absence of AI regulation (AI threatens more jobs and lower/middle class income than it creates).
• Fake pandemics to destroy enterprise and the Economy.
• Speculative: The use of HAARP technology to destroy conditions for sufficient agriculture. Again raising prices.
And the reason they need the masses on the Breadline is so that they'll be forced to accept UBI.
And the reason they need the masses to accept UBI is because it will eventually be a trackable and programmable form of currency (which wouldn't be accepted by the majority unless it was 'free money'/UBI).
I realise this might all be obvious to some of you but I want to make sure none of my subscribers are in any doubt. We can only protect ourselves against something if we know it's happening, and can defend best when we know why it's happening.
The solution is still to minimize our dependency upon the existing System; Their fiat currency, global supply chains, welfare, media, culture, legal system, methods of travel - these are all things we must reduce our exposure to. We can all start quite easily by living within our means, stocking food, trading labour and goods with neighbours, planting a few potatoes and disconnecting the satellite dish.
Gods speed.
Giants Grave, St.Andrews Church, Penrith, Cumbria. Thought to mark the burial place of Owain ap Dyfnwal, a legendary king of Strathclyde from 920-937 AD. Killed at the Battle of Brunanburh.
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From Charles V armoury. Its decoration represents a hunter ready for a boar’s charge, which indicates it was conceived for the hunting of said animal.
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These two men and one woman were found buried in Oak chest coffins at the the large barrow Borum Eshøj site, in Denmark. Dated to around 1350BC, they were found buried with many grave goods such as bronze jewellery, bronze daggers, horn combs and bone pins. Not only were the clothes found very well preserved, but the bodies also, still having muscle tissue holding the bones together when they were found. The Borum Eshøj graves are one of the largest collective finds of their kind from Denmark.
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A 2,000-year-old knife has been discovered on the island of Funen, Denmark, with a Runic inscription which could be the oldest ever found in the country.
According to runologist Lisbeth M. Imer from the National Museum of Denmark, the runes spell out the word “hirala”, which may spell out 'little sword.'
Dating back to about 150AD, the runes on the knife are written in the oldest known Nordic text. The blade is about the same age as a bone comb inscribed with runes found nearby in 1865, making it among the oldest runic finds in Denmark.
Illustration from Ancient Warfare magazine. Caledonian tribesmen ambush a legionary marching column during Septimius Severus' campaigns in Scotland.
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A copy of the colossal statue of Constantine The Great is being reconstructed at the Capitoline museums in Rome.
A full scale, 12 meter high, will be located near where the original fragments of the original statue are displayed.
The statue will be ready by January 31st and museum visitors will be able to see it in all its magnificence. Not a fan of the man personally, but an impressive look at the past nonetheless.
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Believe it or not, this is not a city of old, but a brand new build inspired by Spanish and other European architecture. Behind the project at Ciudad Cayalá, Guatemala is Luxembourgish architect Léon Krier, a prominent critic of modernist architecture.
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Hope all you fine folk are well and that good Yuletide celebrations were had by all. It is at this time of the year we are reminded things are darkest before the dawn, but the sun always returns.
Do not not give in nor allow yourself to be consumed by the insidious forces that surround us today. Resist and meet them head on, as our forefathers would have done.
The Medieval market square of Hildesheim, in Lower Saxony, Germany, was levelled during WWII. It was quickly replaced with concrete monstrosities shorty afterwards. The people of Hildesheim however, wanted their historic centre back and reconstruction began in the 1980s. Proof that ugliness can be reversed.
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An 8-year-old boy named Bjarne playing in a sandbox at his elementary school in Bremen, Germany, unearthed a silver coin minted during the Roman Empire’s Pax Romana. The coin was identified as a Roman denarius that was minted during the reign of Emperor Marcus Aurelius Antoninus, who ruled from 161-180 AD.
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