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Thread: While we are talking about Göbekli Tepe, I would like to just ask few questions about the "famous" pillar 43, Otherwise known as "scorpion and vultures pillar". I

Thread: A woman buried around 700BC in the grave 15 from Marvinci-Lisičin Dol cemetery near Valandovo, Macedonia, was not an ordinary woman... These are beautiful artist depictions of what the

Thread: The ring, found on the hand of the buried person, in an intact early Christian grave from the start of the 3rd c. AD, found in graveyard of the

Thread: Ok this is going to be fun. This amazing rock formation covered in snow is known as Babele. The name means "Grandmothers" and it's derived from Slavic (Serbian) word

Thread: This mask currently held in the British museum depicts the grim face of Humbaba (Huwawa), legendary guardian of the Cedar Forest from Sumerian mythology. It is rendered in clay

Thread: Vessel from Tepe Hissar, a prehistoric site, continuously occupied between 5th to the 2nd millennium BC, Northeastern Iran. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tepe_Hissar It seems that these two animals had a special significance

Thread: Bogatyrs (1898) Painting by Viktor Mikhaylovich Vasnetsov. A bogatyr is a character in medieval East Slavic legends, akin to a Western European knight. I would here like to talk

Thread: This is Priapus, Ancient Greek god of the male reproductive power and fertility and the fertility of nature in general. Allegedly he originated in Hellespont from where his cult

Thread: In 1961, an extraordinary treasure was found in a cave in Israel. Hidden in a natural crevice and wrapped in a straw mat, the hoard contained 442 different objects:

Thread: The depiction or the Serbian circular dance "kolo" or "oro" from the 14th century Serbian monastery Lesnovo which is located in today's Republic of Makedonija... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lesnovo_monastery I also t

Thread: "Everyone knows that an ordinary bullet can't kill a witch. If you want to kill a witch, load the rifle with 3 grains of wheat and a bit of

Thread: Very, very interesting ceramic vessel made by people of the Copper Metalworking and Grain Farming "Baden culture" which flourished in Central and Southeast Europe (Czech Republic, Hungary, Poland, Slovakia,