A rediscovered manuscript from 1550s Augsburg, Germany, shows Old Testament and Book of Revelation scenes. Taschen’s new edition adds context
One of the things that is a window into the past is imagination, and medieval imaginations were vivid. Despite living in an age of Church oppression, people found ways of bringing their fears and superstitions to life. Medieval cartographers treated their craft like an art, and added fanciful decoration to many of their maps in […]
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Strange, Trippy And Perverted Pictures From Illuminated Medieval Manuscripts
The pages of the Old Testament teem with tales that have captivated us for centuries. Among these ancient narratives, the concept of a
In 1937, a massive sea monster washed ashore in Nantucket
Bound with his Sea fables explained
We’ve compiled the most fearsome, weirdest, and most ridiculous sea monsters from a new book on one of history's strangest maps, which is available September 15. So come with us now on a journey through rough waters and nasty, big, pointy teeth.
No wonder volcanoes, like sea-monsters, are the stuff of legends. The curators at the Bodleian have brought out its treasures and raided the archives of Oxford colleges for Volcanoes: Encounters through the Ages. The eyewitness accounts evoked in the Bodleian run from the famous letters of Pliny the Younger, about the eruption of Vesuvius in Naples in 79 BC—well known in the classical world—to the vulcanologists of today.
Old Testament references to a huge sea monster, Leviathan (in Hebrew, Liwyāthān), are thought to spring from an ancient myth in which the god Baal slays a multiheaded sea monster. Leviathan appears in
The terrifying Great Norway Serpent, or Sea Orm, is the most famous of the many influential sea monsters depicted and described by 16th-century ecclesiastic, cartographer, and historian Olaus Magnus. Joseph Nigg, author of Sea Monsters, explores the iconic and literary legacy of the controversial serpent from its beginnings in the medieval imagination to modern cryptozoology.
Scientists in Australia think that a sea monster in 13th-century Norse manuscripts was actually an accurate description of a whale using trap feeding.
Serepents of the seas
As Sir David realises he’s helped unearth a new pliosaur, the years fall away until the 97-year-old is a schoolboy fossil hunter once more. Talk about truly exciting television
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A seal pup in Wales, a luxury hotel in a quarry pit in Shanghai, spacesuit testing on a tropical island, damage from Hurricane Michael in Florida, Swiss fighter aircraft in the Alps, and much more
Il suo nome in codice è ms. Harley 647, e indica che si tratta di un manoscritto (ms.), il numero 647 della collezione Harley, che prende il nome da Robert Harley, politico britannico del ‘600/700.Nel 1704 Harley acquistò più di 600 manoscritti da un antiquario, cominciando così una raccolta che venne ulteriormente ingrossata da suo figlio Edward e che arrivò a comprendere migliaia di volumi, oggi quasi tutti conservati presso la British Library di Londra. Il 647 è un libro […]
LA MEDALLA DE UTAH DEMUESTRA QUE LA DAMA ES ANUNNAKI ES ISTHAR O UNA REINA DE LA ATLÁNTIDA CON SU ICONOGRAFÍA UN AGUJERO EN LA HISTORIA Antes eran enigmas, pero ahora tenemos respuestas. Er…
NOMA acquires French painting with a local connection
