Virtual Exhibit: Book Of the Dead: Becoming God in Ancient Egypt
Source: Book Of the Dead: Becoming God in Ancient Egypt
Online exhibit accompanying the exhibit in the Oriental Institute Museum, October 3rd, 2017 – March 31st, 2018
The ancient Egyptian Book of...
Gothic Grotesque: Precursor of Modern Horrors
Gothic Grotesque: Precursor of Modern Horrors
by Prof. Eugene Narrett
In the last decades of the 19th century, stimulated by the fantastic and racist mythologies of Helena Blavatsky, by Malthus, Darwin...
Goth at 40: The enduring appeal of bleakness and black lipstick
Goth friends enjoying a summer day in Los Angeles. Nearly 40 years after it took hold, the subculture has proved surprisingly enduring. (Kyle Monk/For The Washington Post)
Source: Washington Post
By...
Gudrid Thorbjarnardóttir … the woman who found the New World 500 years before Columbus
Souce: The Guardian, Sat 18 Apr 2020
Great explorers you’ve probably never heard ofAdventure travel
In our new series on lesser-known adventurers, we shine a light on the Icelandic explorer who...
Bauhaus Explained: The Dark Literary Origins of Goth
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hPhkB6PVLIc
Greek Mythology 3500 BC to AD 2014 | University of Birminghan
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dCaDjvcaWpo&t=2804s
The Mysterious Codex Argenteus: Famed Silver Bible of the Goths
Source: Ancient Origins
The Goths, one of the major Germanic tribes of ancient times, were a key player in the events that marked the downfall of the Western Roman Empire....
Eros at Play — Why the ancient erotic poems of Sappho and Wallada bint...
Source: Aeon
A woman rests in a field surrounded by apple trees. Savouring the sounds and smells of the shaded grove, she muses on the ‘sacred recess’ of her idyllic surroundings,...
The tea-rific history of Victorian afternoon tea
Source: British Museum's blog
In celebration of Afternoon Tea week, food historian Tasha Marks explores the history of the much-loved afternoon treat.
Tasha Marks, food historian 14 August 2020
The Duchess of Bedford
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