Columbia Crest Grand Estates Cabernet Sauvignon 2012 Ixel Balamke’s Wine Notes Color – Dark ruby Aroma – Black currants Initial Taste – Lush black currants with hints of spice. Finish – Rounded tannins with elegant black currants with notes of… Continue Reading
A study in Royal Society Open Science says that so called ‘Neanderthal bone flutes’ are no more than the damaged bones of cave bear cubs left by scavengers during the Ice Age. The paper suggests that the ‘flutes’, which are… Continue Reading
In a thousand year old home at the Rising Whale Site in Alaska, bronze and obsidian artifacts may suggest that Asia and Alaska were trading. For more at – http://www.livescience.com/50506-artifacts-reveal-pre-columbus-trade.html
Neanderthals from the French region of Poitou-Charentes cut, beat and fractured the bones of their recently deceased companions, as revealed by the fossil remains of two adults and a child found at the Marillac site. These manipulations have been observed… Continue Reading
Although the ancient Romans were the first people to have had a fire brigade, they did not have a police force (apart from a night-watch). Thus, victims of minor crimes such as petty theft had to fend for themselves and… Continue Reading
Buried for millennia in the rear of a rock-shelter in the Lapedo Valley 85 miles north of Lisbon, Portugal, archaeologists uncovered the bones of a four-year-old child, comprising the first complete Palaeolithic skeleton ever dug in Iberia. But the significance… Continue Reading
There’s more than meets the eye in artist Rembrandt van Rijn’s famous 17th-century painting, “Susanna and the Elders,” according to a new study. To learn more about how the Dutch painter created his masterpiece, art historians and researchers recently compared… Continue Reading
Dona Paula Black Label Red Blend 2012 Ixel Balamke’s Wine Notes Color – Dark purple Aroma – Plummy with lots of spice Initial Taste – Big rich plums with red pepper spice Finish – Long finish with balanced tannins and… Continue Reading
A gentleman in Italy wanted to open a restaurant but he had toilet trouble. So he digs out the line and finds some amazing archaeological artifacts. http://www.nytimes.com/2015/04/15/world/europe/centuries-of-italian-history-are-unearthed-in-quest-to-fix-toilet.html?smid=fb-nytimes&smtyp=cur&bicmp=AD&bicmlukp=WT.mc_id&bicmst=1409232722000&bicmet=1419773522000&_r=1
Across many ancient civilizations throughout the world, love was placed under the domain of a certain deity, usually, but not in all cases, a goddess. In the Classical world, for instance, there were Venus and Aphrodite, love goddesses of the… Continue Reading