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Sculpted

It was a marriage that lasted barely 10 years, producing a single daughter, Princess Shahnaz Pahlavi. The divorce was officially attributed to the health risk posed to the queen by the "Persian climate". But during that time, the Egyptian princess who looked like a movie star became one of the most recognised faces in the world, captured on the cover of Life magazine in September 1942 as the "Queen of Iran" by the legendary photographer Cecil Beaton.

The queen, Beaton wrote: "Had sad and mournful eyes, pitch-black hair, a perfectly sculpted face and soft, graceful hands bereft of the wrinkles of labour."

Then as now, the world loved a fairy tale princess. The public was enamoured by the royal graces, fashions and poise of real-life royalty.

Even today, the princesses and queens of the Arab world still capture the imagination of the masses and set trends in both the political and social arenas.

Queen Rania of Jordan, like her predecessor, Queen Noor of Jordan; Princess Lalla Salma of Morocco; Sheikha Mozah of Qatar; Princess Haya Bint Al Hussein, wife of the Vice President and Ruler of Dubai, Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid; and Princess Ameerah Al Taweel, wife of the Saudi Prince Al Waleed bin Talal, are just some of the royals today who have become fashion icons and some of the most photographed women in the Middle East.

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Mourners

Aromatic sage and mint linked graves were discovered on Israel's Mount Carmel.

Imprints of the stems and flowers of aromatic plants stamped into the dirt of ancient graves are the oldest definitive proof of putting flowers and fresh plants in the grave before burying the dead (here, an ancient burial pit dating to nearly 14,000 years)-a mundane practice around the world today-a new finding says.

Scented flowering plants, such as mint and sage, were imprinted in soft mud after they decomposed some 12,000 years ago in the graves located in a cave on northern Israel's Mount Carmel. Ancient mourners lined four graves with the flowers, most notably one that holds a pair.

In The Chapel

In the Chapel at Nelahozeves Castle there hangs an imposing, full-length depiction of a Black Madonna and Child, based on the celebrated statue known as The Madonna of Einsiedeln. It is by an unknown artist, probably of the Central European School. The ducal arms of Baden emblazoned on the image suggest that it was commissioned by the Baden family. Black Madonnas, as a distinct subject, spread throughout medieval Europe and eventually reached the shores of the Americas. A number of theories have linked the Black Madonna to pre-Christian earth goddesses or perhaps to the Egyptian goddess Isis, but these are still the subject of debate among art historians.  

This rare oil painting returned to Nelahozeves Castle on 20 June 2013 after a complete restoration by Collections conservator Martin Martan and was graciously sponsored by Mr and Mrs Jürgen Stackmann. In its previous state, as a result of brittleness caused by age, the Black Madonna required structural conservation work such as patching and re-lining. The original canvas had suffered numerous tears that could have enlarged and undermined the stability of the fragile layers of paint. The painting also needed cleaning to bring out the subtle white-and-gold palette of the Madonna’s garments.

The restoration not only saved the painting from further damage, it also confirmed its iconographic provenance: the Black Madonna from The Lobkowicz Collections is inspired by the famous Madonna of Einsiedeln in Switzerland. Like the original statue, this Black Madonna is holding Baby Jesus in her left hand and a sceptre in her right, and the Baby is holding a small black bird, probably a goldfinch, to remind us of the Passion.

Sesklo

This settlement gives its name to the first Neolithic culture of Europe, which inhabited Thessaly and parts of Macedonia. The oldest fragments researched at Sesklo place the civilisation's development as far back as 6850 BC.

The first settlements, which predate the 6th millennium BCE, are known as proto-Sesklo and pre-Sesklo and they show an advanced agriculture and a very early use of pottery that rivals in age those of the Near East, in an area geographically close to the Petralona cave and the Archanthropus living environment.

The peoples of Sesklo built their villages on hillsides near fertile valleys, where they grew wheat and barley, also keeping herds of mainly sheep and goats, though they also had cows, pigs and dogs. Their houses were small, with one or two rooms, built of wood or mudbrick in the early period. Later the construction technique becomes more homogeneous and all homes are built of adobe with stone foundations. In the 6th millennium BCE, the first houses with two levels are found and there is also a clear intentional urbanism.

Discovered

The birthstone of May is the emerald, a beautiful green gem that has been revered for thousands of years. Egyptian Queen Cleopatra was a great admirer of emeralds; in fact her own mine was rediscovered about a century ago – one of the earliest confirmations of emeralds in history.

KV 63

That no mummies were found in KV 63 — the first tomb discovered in the Valley of the Kings in nearly 84 years — was neither disappointing nor entirely surprising to those who unearthed the tomb and painstakingly worked to preserve all that they found inside.

"We found hundreds and hundreds and hundreds of mummies, but we never discovered something like this," said Dr. Zahi Hawass, Egypt's chief Egyptologist, as he peered at the contents. "Look at what we discovered here. Look at it."

Archaeology is about patience, and about expecting the unexpected. It is about finding a clue in the sand and gently sifting through layers of time. KV 63 has offered up many mysteries. Seven coffins were found inside, and each was filled with items like pillows, linens and broken pottery.

But archaeology is also about show business, and in modern Egypt the master of ceremonies, the only man allowed to pull back the curtain for the audience, is Dr. Hawass, the general secretary of the Supreme Council of Antiquities. He has a theory about KV 63, but by the end of the day on Wednesday it was hard to know how much of that was show business and how much science, or whether there was a bit of both.

Gardens

Though the story went that Babylonia's King Nebuchadnezzar constructed the gardens to appease his homesick wife, Dalley asserts that it was instead Assyria's King Sennacherib behind them. Using her expertise in the region's ancient language, Dalley translated a number of Babylonian, Assyrian, Greek, and Roman texts, and found what the Independent describes as "four key pieces of evidence." Among them: indications that Nineveh may have been seen as a "new Babylon" after the Assyrians conquered the Babylonians in 689 BC, studies of the topography near the respective locations, and signs that the historians who wrote about the gardens a few centuries later actually visited locations near Nineveh. The Guardianalso reports that, by Dalley's translation, a 7th-century BC Assyrian inscription that had been woefully deciphered about a century ago revealed Nineveh was home to an intricate system of waterways that would have transported water 50 miles to the gardens. Recent digs have uncovered signs these aqueducts existed, notes the Guardian, which says the dangerous nature of the area has prevented much exploration of it.

Spheres

Archaeologists have come across a number of strange spheres below an ancient pyramid in Teotihuacan.

The team had been using a special robot with cameras mounted on it to explore previously uncharted tunnels and chambers below the Temple of the Feathered Serpent when they discovered a number of peculiar spheres. Ranging in size from 4 to 12 inches in diameter, the spheres have a clay core surrounded by the mineral pyrite which gives them a yellowish color.

It is believed that the spheres would have remained untouched and undiscovered since being sealed away in the chambers up to 1,800 years ago. "We believe that high-ranking people, priests or even rulers, went down to the tunnel to perform rituals," said archaeologist Sergio Gómez Chávez. "Maybe in this place, we will find the remains of those who ruled Teotihuacan."

Nabopolassar

Etemenanki was the name of a ziggurat dedicated to Marduk in the city of Babylon. It was famously rebuilt by the 6th-century BC Neo-Babylonian dynasty rulers Nabopolassar and Nebuchadnezzar II.

According to modern scholars such as Stephen L. Harris, the biblical story of the Tower of Babel was likely influenced by Etemenanki during the Babylonian captivity of the Hebrews.

Nebuchadnezzar wrote that the original tower had been built in antiquity:

"A former king built the Temple of the Seven Lights of the Earth, but he did not complete its head. Since a remote time, people had abandoned it, without order expressing their words. Since that time earthquakes and lightning had dispersed its sun-dried clay; the bricks of the casing had split, and the earth of the interior had been scattered in heaps."

Scholars have recently discovered in the Schoyen Collection the oldest known representation of the Etemenanki. Carved on a black stone, The Tower of Babel Stele (as it is known) dates from 604-562 BC, the time of Nebuchadnezzar II.

Fornjót was an ancient giant in Norse mythology and a king of Finland. His children are Ægir, the ruler of the sea, Logi the fire giant and Kári the god of wind.

The name has often been interpreted as forn-jótr ancient giant.

Karl Simorck in 1869 identified Formjotr with the primaeval giant Ymir.

But it is also possible, as was suggested by Müller (1818), that it is one of a well-established group of names or titles of gods in -njótr "user, owner, possessor", which would make Fornjótr the "original owner" (primus occupans vel utens) of Norway.

Aa

A Babylonian sun-goddess, the  wife of Samas. Mother of Giru, Kittu, Mesharu and Nusku.

Also called Aa, A, A,Aa, Ai, Ea, Ea, Aa, Ansar, Ea-Sarru, Enlil, Hea, Hoa, Nidim, Nidimmud, Amma-ana-ki, Aos, Dunga,Engur, Enki, Enti, Kuski-banda, Lamha, ugal-ida(k), Lugalid, Mummu, Nadimmud, Naqbu, Nidim, Ninbuba, Ninigkug, Nudim, Nun-ura, Sa-kala-ma, Sassu-wunnu, Shar Apsi or Sumerian Enki.

That's a lot of names.

Asherah

The name Asherah translates as “she who moves across the water.” Pure and timeless, Asherah is the Spirit of God who was there in the beginning, moving upon the face of the deep and rejoicing over God’s handiwork (Genesis 1:1; Proverbs 8:30). 

She is the Queen of Heaven mentioned in Revelation 12:1. She is represented in Scripture by her namesake Sarah— her name being a variation and archetype of Asherah. However, by the time we get to the prophets, we see a whole new pattern emerging, that of a people committing spiritual harlotry, characterised by the prostitute Gomer being pursued by her faithful husband Hosea. This image is further perpetuated by the Canaanite belief that Asherah was constantly cheating on her husband El with his arch-nemesis Baal, the god of the storms; this story mirroring the strange and erratic behavior of the gods in the ancient world. 

However, whatever this is, it is my firm conviction that this is not behavior that is becoming of an Israelite goddess! Something about this scenario just does not sit quite right with me. It almost seems as if Asherah has had her dignity stripped of her by the very people she represents, not the fertility rituals that have come to characterize and mar Her image.

Sligo

Near Sligo are two interesting Stone Age sites, the Carrowmore Megalithic Cemetery and the Knocknarea Cairn. Carrowmore has a large number of stone circles and dolmens. It is one of the largest Stone Age cemeteries in Europe, dating from around 3900 BCE. The largest passage grave was unfortunately closed for renovation.
Looking around Carrowmore you can see cairns on almost every mountain top visible form there. The largest of these is Knocknarea Cairn, dating from around 3000 BCE. Legend has it that the legendary Queen Maeve is buried in that cairn. If so, she was buried in the existing cairn, since the cairn is from the Stone Age, while Queen Maeve supposedly lived in the 1^st century BCE.

Asphodel

The Asphodel Meadows is where the souls of people who lived lives of equal parts of good and evil rested.

It essentially was a plain of Asphodel flowers, which were the favourite food of the Greek dead. It is described as a ghostly place that is an even less perfect version of life on earth.”

Believing the dead ate the asphodel it was planted amongst tombs.

However, the asphodel was also eaten by the living – its bulbs when boiled produce a food similar to the potato.

Badb

I shall not see a world that will be dear to me.
Summer without flowers,
Kine will be without milk,
Women without modesty,
Men without valour,
Captures without a king.
... ... ...
Woods without mast,
Sea without produce,
... ... ...
Wrong judgments of old men,
False precedents of brehons,
Every man a betrayer,
Every boy a reaver.
Son will enter his father's bed,
Father will enter his son's bed,
Everyone will be his brother's brother-in-law.
... ... ...
An evil time!
Son will deceive his father,
Daughter will deceive her mother.

Acheulian

Boxgrove is best known for the Lower Palaeolithic archaeological site discovered in a gravel quarry near the village. Parts of the site complex were excavated between 1983 and 1996 by a team led by Mark Roberts of University College London. Numerous Acheulean flint tools and remains of animals (some butchered) dating to around 500,000 years ago were found at the site. The area was therefore used by some of the earliest occupants of the British Isles. Remains of Homo heidelbergensis were found on the site in 1994, the only postcranial hominid bone to have been found in Northern Europe. Teeth from another individual were found two years later.