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FASTER AND LOUDER!!! HERE I COME!!! Happy new year!

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Roman mosaic discovered in old town of Hvar, Croatia. Now what? 🙂

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A tiger tattoo on the shoulder of a 3rd century BC Scythian male mummy found in 1949 in the Altai Mountains, Siberia, Russia

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Have you ever eaten honey from a honeycomb?

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Anyone hungry? A bowl of 4000-5000 years old Assyrian tablets, with letters, contracts and receipts...

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In 2021, Archaeologists in Finland unearthed a 4000-year-old wooden carving of a snake "believed to be a ritual staff of a Neolithic shaman". Additional Info: Images: Satu Koivisto

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Thread: This 2,800 year old ivory was recently discovered in the old Hittite capital Hattusa, Turkey. According to excavation director Prof. Dr. Andreas Schachner, the engraving depicts "a Sphinx, a Lion, and two Trees of Life" and is a unique find. That's it. That's it?

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Thread: Reconstruction of the clothes of women from the Minoan era in Crete (reconstructions made by Dr. Bernice Jones)... Now, I wonder if this was indeed what Minoan women wore every day, or was this ceremonial attire??? Here's why:

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Thread: All my life I suffered from hay fever. I pretty much chocked to death every summer. Then, few years ago, an old man (crazy old man according to my wife) told me to try nettles...

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Chinese Neolithic Hongshan culture, 4700-2900BC, loved dragon (snake) rings. So much they made pile and pile of them...BTW, did I mention that almost 90% of these guys belonged to the paternal haplogroup N-M231??? Today most common halogroup in...Finland.

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Thread: This is an example of a Neolithic shaft hammer axe...It is made of stone. A hole was drilled through it, and a shaft is fixed into it. Nothing special...Except how did they drill this hole through a stone without metal drills? Well here is how:

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Thread: "Care of the dead" Two Assyrian soldiers forcing Elamite captive to grind bones of his family, 7th - 6th c. BC. This wasn't like most people think an act of random cruelty...Making someone destroy the bones of their ancestors was a deliberate forced act of sacrilege...

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A golden Thracian wreath from the burial of an Odrysian Aristocrat at the Golyamata Mogila tumulus, situated between the villages of Zlatinitsa and Malomirovo, Yambol region, Bulgaria. Dated to the mid 4th century BC...Just stunning...

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I just love the expression of Christ from this Slavic-Moravian cross pendant from the 8th/9th century AD...

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Thread: This is what early domesticated corn (maize) looked like. It was domesticated from the plant "teocintle" (meaning "grass of the gods" in Náhuatl), most likely by the native people of Guerrero, Mexico, around 8000 years ago...

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Thread: This is the 860BC-850BC Middle Babylonian limestone "Sun God Tablet", currently in the British Museum. In this thread, I would like to add few bits of information that will help us understand some of the symbols depicted on this tablet.

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Totally incredible bull/cow head made from flint, Early Naqada II, Egypt, 3650-3450 BC, currently in the British Museum. Good night...

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Vulture statue from Göbeklitepe, dated to 9600-8000 BC. Pic by Erhan Yıldırım...

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4 years

Thread: This is the so called Giant's Ring, a late Neolithic henge monument at Ballynahatty, near Shaw's Bridge, Belfast, Northern Ireland...

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4 years

Thread: Face to face with the woman who died more than 1000 years ago – skull and jewelry from 9th century grave from the medieval necropolis discovered at Pećine archaeological site in eastern Serbia...

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A very very cute ceramic hedgehog figurine from the large (170,000 square meters) Neolithic (3500-3000BC) Hamin archaeological site located near Shebotu Town, Inner Mongolia, China...

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Thread: A funeral gold mask found in a female grave in Archontiko, Macedonia, Greece. Dated to 540 BC. Currently in Pella Archaeological Museum, Greece...

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8000 years old clay house model, with tiny bread oven, tiny chess figures like people figurines and tiny animal figurines, from Neolithic site Platia Magoula Zarkou iv in Thessaly, Greece. From:

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A unique find in Europe: A 4,000 years old necklace, made by people of the Moriš/Maros culture. It was found in a woman's grave, in one of their settlements in Serbia. The beads are made of deer, sheep and cow bones, while the central pendant is a HUMAN rib...

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Herodotus says that Thracians, when a child was born, would gather and cry and lament all the hardships the new human would have to go through in his, her life. Funerals were the opposite, happy and full of joy for the deceased was leaving all the suffering behind @MagicalEurope

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Thread: This rectangular-sided monument made of black basalt in 670 BC, records Assyrian King Esarhaddon's restoration of Babylon, after it was destroyed by his father Sennacherib in 689 BC. Currently in The British Museum, London...

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In Serbia it is a tradition to decorate #Easter eggs by sticking flowers and leaves on the surface of the eggs and then boiling the eggs with onion skins. The result are these beautiful symbols of spring and rebirth of nature #Easter2020 #GoodFriday

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Evidence for long distance trade in the Neolithic. These beautiful jadeite axes found in Ireland are circa 6000 years old. Studies have shown that the stone they are fashioned out of stones from Neolithic quarries located in the Italian alps. Source:

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4 years

Thread: Asian Leopard. The real thing, and depicted on Neolithic pottery found in Iran, standing over the zig zag design depicting flowing water...

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Example: Bottom, 1930 photo from Yugoslav archives, Serbian kids playing the game called gudža, Šar Planina, Kosovo. Top, photoshopped photo with added white Albanian caps to make the kids look Albanian, which has recently appeared online. If the original didn't exist...

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Somewhere in Ireland...Pic by Gerry Kiersey...

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By the way, these clay "documents" were sent to their recipients in appropriate clay "envelops"...Seriously cool...

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Thread: A woman buried around 700BC in the grave 15 from Marvinci-Lisičin Dol cemetery near Valandovo, Macedonia, was not an ordinary woman...

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As promised, thread: “Does it mean there will be no gifts this year?” by Jakub Rozalski This painting depicts 3 little carolers stumbling upon Krampus killing Santa...I love this image...Because it shows how successful Christian propaganda was in turning Old Gods into New Devils

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An ancient bust of Aphrodite and the Greek model Andri Cartoni. I prefer the the Greek model I have to say...

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Torso of Iberian warrior with a pectoral piece with a fierce wolf protome in the centre. lV century BC, La Alcudia, Spain...

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This tiny, tiny, tiny golden ibex figurine (I believe that that's a fingertip behind it 🙂) was found in Gonur Depe, an archaeological site, dated to 2400-1600 BC, and located in Turkmenistan. Gonur Depe was the "capital" of the Bactria–Margiana Archaeological Complex (BMAC).

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Meditation...Female head, terracotta, h. 6,2 cm, Moravian culture, 4800-4500BC. descovered in Jaroměřice nad Rokytnou, Moravia, Czech Republic, currently in the Moravian National Museum, Brno

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6 years

Reenactment of the robbing of Lidl in Tallaght during storm Emma in the #StPatricksday parade somewhere in West Cork. Brilliant :)

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2 years

Thread: Winter deer...Iran, 14th - 10th century BC...Why winter deer?

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Thread: This is one of the most amazing things I have seen...Neolithic burial, discovered in Puyang, Henan Province, Northwestern China and dated to 4000BC...

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Serbian traditional female dresses decorated with embroidery from Kosovo and Metohija. From the ethnographic museum Belgrade.

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Staring into the abyss...1st c. BC Etruscan polychrome female face from Vulci (Tuscany), now in the National Etruscan Museum of Villa Giulia in Rome. Pic by Maria Enrica Ceccarelli

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Thread: This is a Bronze age (circa 14th century BC) vessel with Ibex goat handles and Swastika symbol linked to two spirals. Found in Muş region, Turkey...I couldn't find much more about this artefact...

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What a face...Portuguese shepherd wearing a "croça", a rain cloak made out of straw, 1900. (Photo by Auguste Bobone)

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In the past Serbs believed that wolves were "enemies of demons". Which is why when the devil, a vampire, or an "unclean" deceased person was mentioned in conversation in Central Serbia and Montenegro people always added: "Vuk mu na put!" (May a wolf stand in his path!)

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Thread: Traditional seven legs bread doll. (“Pippia a setti cambas” “bambola a sette gambe”). Baked at the beginning of lent. Every week a leg is removed to measure the time remaining to Easter. Settimo San Pietro. Cagliari, Italy...

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Aphrodite (goddess of beauty and sex) beating up her son Eros (god of love and sex) with a slipper...What do you think she is saying to the the poor Eros? Back of a silver mirror, Greek, 2nd c. BC...

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Thread: In the summer of 1998, the shifting sands of Holme beach on the North Norfolk coast, England, revealed remains of a unique timber circle dating to 2000BC...The circle quickly became known as The Seahenge...

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Amazing: The face of a satyr, Roman glass mosaic inlay, 1st c. BC. - 1st c. AD. Most likely made in Egypt. Mosaic glass or millefiori technique. 2.7 cm by 1.2 cm. Corning museum of glass...

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Those eyes...Saint Eudoxia or Evdokia mosaic on the exterior of the Bulgarian Orthodox Saint Alexander Nevsky Cathedral built in Neo-Byzantine style in the city of Sofia capital of Bulgaria.

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Kummakivi (strange stone) is a large balancing rock in Ruokolahti, Finland. The 7-metre long boulder lies on a convex bedrock surface with a very small footprint so firmly that it can't be rocked with human force. Local legend says that a Giant placed it there. #FolkloreThursday

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Thread: #FairyTaleTuesday In Belarus, when storytellers want to emphasise that something happened long time ago, they would say "in the old days, when people kept snakes in their houses"...

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Thread: 3000 year old petroglyph "of a man running away from a big snake". It is one of the many Rock carvings in Tanum (), Sweden. I would strongly disagree with the interpretation. Here is why:

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Roasted chestnuts are best eaten hot, picked with frozen fingers out of a newspaper cone, peeled and shared with someone you love, while walking down a foggy street in the late autumn evening, in a city that smells of immanent snow...

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Thread (Long but hopefully interesting): The most famous of the Lake Onega petroglyphs, Russia, made c. 4000BC, is a large anthropomorph known locally as "The Devil" (Rus. Bes), which was intentionally positioned around a large crevice so that it divides the figure in two...

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Thread: One of many similar cult models of a loaf of bread, from the Neolithic Vinča culture. This one was found at Banjica-Usek archaeological site in Belgrade, capital of Serbia, and was dated to 4500 BC. Length 18 cm, width 6 cm. Collection of Belgrade City Museum...

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Thread (longish): The charge of the Polish Winged Hussars at the 1683 battle of Vienna. 3000 of them took part of the biggest cavalry charge in history, which finally stopped the Turkish expansion into Europe...

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Eeee...Hello...One of the figurines found in the inundated archaeological sites dating to the Pottery Neolithic period (Wadi Rabah culture), 8000–6500 cal. BP, which have been exposed under water off the Carmel coast of Israel...

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Elves...Stunning winged bronze 4th century BC Phrygian-Chalcidian helmet adorned with Nike & Artemis, goddesses of victory & the hunt...

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Happy #WinterSolstice everyone :)

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Tomorrow is Othrodox Easter. In Serbia it is a tradition to decorate Easter eggs by sticking flowers and leaves on the surface of the eggs and then boiling the eggs with onion skins. The result are these beautiful symbols of spring and rebirth of nature @MagicalEurope

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Loket Castle, Czech Republic @MagicalEurope

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This magnificent bronze Ibex goat head with gold inlays, dimensions 32 x 11,5 x 21 cm, was discovered in Zagazig (love the name 🙂), a city in Lower Egypt, situated in the eastern part of the Nile delta, and was dated to around 1000-650 BC...

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Thread: Marble Throne of Apollo, Roman, late 1st c. AD. Currently in the Los Angeles County Museum of Art Whoever made this, knew who Apollo really was and wanted to show Apollo in his true shape (serpent, dragon), sitting on his throne. Let me explain:

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Three ancient (at the latest medieval) stones from Bosnia... With three different styles of "kolovrt" meaning "the thing that spins the wheel" or "the spinning wheel", ancient Slavic solar symbol...I wonder what the holes were for?

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Bead made of Phoenician glass. These kind of beads were found in both Eastern Mediterranean or North Africa, and are dated to around the 4th - 5th century BC.

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Absolutely beautiful. A Bronze Age standing stone overgrown with flowers and topped with an elder tree in full bloom. Bryn Celli Ddu , Anglesey, Wales. Pic: Gillian Smith @MagicalEurope @AncientEurope @ahencyclopedia @ancientorigins @archaeologyart @BronzeAgeEurope @StonesPodcast

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Shield Of Pharnaces I (), King of Pontus (), C. 185–169 BC It is the area around Black and Azov seas that was probably one the most interesting parts of the world during the last 500 years BC...

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What a place Renndølsetra, Norway. I love the grass roofs. But the view...The view...

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Thread: This mask currently held in the British museum depicts the grim face of Humbaba (Huwawa), legendary guardian of the Cedar Forest from Sumerian mythology. It is rendered in clay as if made of coils of a sheep’s intestines. The reason why is explained on the back:

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Thread: One of the 4000-year-old well-preserved wagons unearthed in the Lchashen village in the vicinity of Lake Sevan. Made of oak, they are the oldest found wagons in the world. Now on display at the History Museum of Armenia...

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Thread: Bronze badge depicting two fighting Bactrian camels. From Filippovka mound, Southern Ural region, dated to V -IV century BC. Currently in the Museum of Archaeology and Ethnography of the Institute of Ethnological Research named after R.G. Kuzeev, Ufa...

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A stylised plaques depicting a male and a female...Early Bronze Age Qijia culture which flourished between 2200 BC and 1600 BC around the upper Yellow River, China...

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Thread: This is Dún Briste (literally Broken Fort) in Co. Mayo, Ireland. This 50 metres tall sea-stack stands just off Downpatrick Head, in the townland of Knockaun, east of the quiet village of Ballycastle. The stack is crowned by an old ruined fort...

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The iron and gold cuirass of the king Philip II of Macedon, father of Alexander the Great. 4th century BC, now on display at the Museum of the Royal Tombs of Aigai in Vergina, Greece.

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Thread: These strange looking things are "yeast logs", also known as "magic sticks". A "yeast log" is a piece of brewing equipment, unique to Scandinavia used to store live yeast between two brewing sessions...

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Thread: Years ago, anthropologist Margaret Mead was asked by a student what she considered to be the first sign of civilisation in a culture. The student expected Mead to talk about fishhooks or clay pots or grinding stones. But no...

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Thread: Beautiful Scythian Iron short swords, daggers (Akinakes) with gold inlay decorations, dated to the mid 7th century BC...

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Thread: Ahhh. I always wandered why the Egyptian "Dog days" were located on the solar year at the hottest part of the year, the end of July, beginning of August...So I looked at the Ancient Egyptian dog breeds...

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Thread: Etruscan gold disc fibula, from the Necropolis of Ponte Sodo, Vulci, Etruria, Italy. 650 BC, from the "Orientalizing period". Currently in the Antikensammlungen, Munich, Bavaria, Germany. WTH is all this stuff depicted on it? Here is the official description:

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Stunning beauty...Holy Virgin, detail of The Annunciation fresco from the Mileševa monastery in Serbia, painted between 1222 and 1227...

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Today is 2nd of August, the old day of Perun, Slavic Thunder god. Painting depicting Perun by Andrey Shishkin. @MagicalEurope

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And the first prize for "The Most Christmassy Monastery in the world" goes to Žiča Monastery in Serbia...

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Mycenaean gold necklace from the National Archaeological Museum, Athens, Greece. Any idea what birds these might be?

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Thread (longish but hopefully interesting): The other day I came across this beautiful mural from a Neolithic (7th millennium BC) site Tell Bouqras from Syria...

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Thread: While I was looking for a suitable illustration for this thread about "lapis manalis", the sacred stone used as part of a Roman "aquaelicium" (calling of the waters), rain making ceremony performed during droughts, I suddenly realised what cup and ring marks look like...

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Thread: This strange inscription was recently discovered in the Almosi gorge, Tajikistan. Inscriptions in the same, yet undeciphered script, were already recorded earlier in Dashti Navur in Afghanistan...

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Thread: "Everyone knows that an ordinary bullet can't kill a witch. If you want to kill a witch, load the rifle with 3 grains of wheat and a bit of Easter beeswax candle"... This Serbian folk belief is very very interesting and contains in itself a lot of encoded information...

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To my wife's horror and the amusement of the fellow walkers in parks and forests, I soon started the recommended "therapy". This is my hand in the nettles bush btw 🙂 And lo and behold it worked...I haven't had any problems with pollen for 6 years now...

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Top: A herd of wild Przhevalsky horses in the Chernobyl exclusion zone. Pic: Tatyana Deryabina. Bottom: A 17,000-year-old horse painting at the Lascaux cave in France

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Basically, as soon as the spring starts, he told me, and the first nettles sprout out, pick a bunch and sting yourself with them. A bit. Do that once a week until the end of autumn. Apparently, this would make my immune system concentrate on nettles and forget about the pollen...

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Ok, strap yourself up, this is going to be fun 🙂 Thread: In 1997, a group of hunters was chasing a fox up the slopes of the Veliki Vetren peak on Mount Juhor, Central Serbia...

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Wow! The silver bull of Delphi is a life size bull statue, originally most likely made of wood, which was then covered by 60 silver leaves which were secured to the wood with nails. The horns, ears and hooves were gold-plated...Ancient Greek, 600 BC, Museum of Delphi, Greece...

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Dramatic picture by Vladimir Maglov. The view of the Jakšić's Tower, octagonal defence tower on Belgrade fortress, Serbia, which was built between 11th and the 15th c and restored in 1937. In front of it can be seen the dome of the St Petka Orthodox church @MagicalEurope

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How cool is this? Lifecycle of blackberry, by Sarah Jane Dawson

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Thread: In the late 1980's, I often ate out in old fashioned traditional restaurants in Belgrade, which served cheap, big portions of delicious food prepared by grannies who looked and cooked just like your granny...

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Beautiful sun mosaic from the ancient city of Olynthus, Northern Greece. Here we see direct link between the sun, the wheel, the cross and the swastika symbols...

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Thread: Decorative carved ivory with a cow suckling her calf and licking its tail among (very stylised) papyrus flowers. Neo-Assyrian, 9th-7th c. BC. Found in Nimrud, Iraq. Currently in the Iraq Museum in Baghdad... Take a good look at the scene...

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Thread: The žirgeliai (little horses), are common motifs on Lithuanian rooftops, placed there for protection of the house...

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Thread: This is one of the most amazing artefacts I have ever seen...Carved from a sperm whale tooth, it depicts two climbing Ibex goats...Found in Mas d’Azil cave (Ariège, France), Middle or Late Magdalenian (13000-10000BC), Piette collection, Musée D’Archéologie Nationale...

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