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Wednesday, 22 July 2020

Nakovana

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This is the abandoned Nakovana village located near the tip of the Pelješac Peninsula in Southern Dalmatia, Croatia... The name Nakovana is ...
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Tuesday, 21 July 2020

Neolithic seafarers

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This is Pelješac peninsula on Croatia’s Dalmatian coast.  In one of the caves near the tip of the peninsula, archaeologists have discovered ...
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Sunday, 19 July 2020

Diadem of the Queen Puabi

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This beautiful object is the so called "diadem of the Queen Puabi". It was found together with huge number of other precious objec...

Pissing gazelles

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This is a wall painting from a provincial palace on the Assyrian borderlands, c. 9th - 7th century BC, depicting a "demigod holding ani...
Saturday, 18 July 2020

Bannock

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In the past, at Imbolc, the first day of Spring according to Gaelic calendar, St Bride's "bannock" or "bonnach" was ...

Blessed fire from the tinder fungus

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There is an interesting Easter Friday custom in Slovenia called "strašenje Boga" (scaring God). It involves people piling up old w...
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