At a settlement in what is now southern Germany, the menu turned gruesome 7,000 years ago. Over a period of perhaps a few decades, hundreds of people were butchered and eaten before parts of their bodies were thrown into oval pits, a new study suggests.
Cannibalism at the village, now called Herxheim, may have occurred during [...]
Posts Tagged ‘rituals’
6 Dec
Contested signs of mass cannibalism
15 Nov
Venice stages its own ‘funeral’
Once the centre of a mighty trading empire that dominated the eastern Mediterranean, the “Queen of the Adriatic’s” population has been dropping for years and has just dipped beneath the psychologically crucial threshold of 60,000.
The calamitous population decline, due to a lack of jobs and the [...]
21 Sep
War dances in Ancient Greece
THE PYRRHIKE
The most famous war dance in ancient Greece was the pyrrhike which became the national dance of Sparta, and persisted there long after Greece became a province of the Roman Empire and similar war dances had died out in other cities. The Greeks had several stories that accounted for the name of the [...]
6 Aug
World’s oldest “map” discovered in Spain
A stone tablet found in a cave in Abauntz in the Navarra region of northern Spain is believed to contain the earliest known representation of a landscape.
Engravings on the stone, which measures less than seven inches by five inches, and is less than an inch thick, appear to depict mountains, meandering rivers and areas of [...]
22 Jul
Gold artefacts from the Hellenistic period discovered in Ohrid (Macedonia)
20 July 2009 | This Saturday, archeologists in Ohrid unearthed exceptionally valuable finds dating to the fifth century BC.
On the road between the Upper Gate and the St. Bogorodica Perivlepta Church were discoevered 17 tombs from the Hellenistic Period, Pasko Kuzman, head of the Macedonian Department for Cultural Heritage told the Dnevnik daily newspaper.
In one [...]
