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The veneration of skulls is known from other ancient sites such as Jericho, but Tell Qaramel appear to be the earliest, and the site may have much to tell us about the development of human culture. Source: Birmingham Museum and Art Gallery / CC BY-NC-SA 2.0.
14 AUG 2024 · 6 MIN

Tell Qaramel and the Neolithic Cult of Severed Heads

Some would argue that human history begins in detail with the Iron Age. Although records survive in some particular locations from the earlier Bronze Age and there is much archaeology to pick…
Hezarfan Ahmed Celebi was said to have flown over the Bosphorus like another Icarus (George Tsiagalakis / CC BY-SA 4.0)
1 AUG 2024 · 5 MIN

Hezarfan Ahmed Celebi, the Man who Flew Over the Bosphorus

Almost everyone has heard of Leonardo da Vinci, who is rightly held up as one of the greatest minds in history. Supremely skilled as a painter, inventor, scientist and polymath, his fizzing…