Bird-beaked masks
During the Black Death of 1347 to 1352, doctors wore bird-beaked masks filled with various herbs that were designed to protect the wearer from breathing poisoned air – or so we have been led to believe.
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Rare Egyptian hat
A rare felt hat from the Roman Period has gone on display for the first time at Bolton Museum, in the north-west of Britain, following conservation work. Dating to c.AD 200, the hat is thought to have belonged to a…
Ancient Egypt Letters 149
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Colourful Costumes: Clothing of goddesses, gods, kings, and queens
Textiles specialist Nancy Arthur Hoskins recreates royal and divine clothing from New Kingdom tomb paintings.
Scotland’s oldest tartan goes on display
Radiocarbon dating found that a date of c.1500-1600 was probable
Peru: a journey in time
The Incas dominate perceptions of Peru’s past, but their empire did not appear out of nowhere. Instead, it drew on traditions and concepts that developed across the central Andes for thousands of years, as Cecilia Pardo and Jago Cooper told Matthew Symonds.
Finds tray – Anglo-Saxon gesture figurine
This is a 7th-century gesture figurine of a man, made of copper alloy. It was found by a metal-detectorist last December in the parish of Kintbury, West Berkshire.
Lost and found: Bjerringhøj burial
Textile traces Sometime in the late 19th century, the remains of an elite individual that had been excavated from the Viking Age burial mound at Bjerringhøj, Denmark, in 1868 were lost. According to a recent paper in Antiquity, Charlotte Rimstad…