Ear Piercing or Karna Vedha is an ancient ceremony performed on both male and female in many countries. This is seen across cultures in almost all continents where human civilization inhabited. In India, this is called as … Read more
Spintria (plural, spintriae) is a small bronze or brass Roman token, used in brothels, usually depicting sexual acts or symbols along with roman numericals on flipside. According to Suetonius (a Roman historian of 2nd century AD), carrying … Read more
Neptune (Latin: Neptūnus) is the god of freshwater and the sea in Roman religion. He is the counterpart of the Greek god Poseidon. His statue is found in Bologna, Italy on a public fountain. Notice the trident … Read more
King Edward’s Chair, also known as St Edward’s Chair or The British Coronation Throne or Chair, is the throne on which the British monarch sits for the coronation. It has 4 lions at its 4 legs, just … Read more
This Shiva Lingam is exhibited in Gregorian Etruscan Museum Vatican City. This has the most important Etruscan collection in Rome, starting with early Iron Age objects from the 9th century BC. Encyclopedia Britannica mentions under the headings … Read more
5 years ago Tsinghua University in Beijing received a donation of nearly 2,500 bamboo strips. They were muddy, smelly and are carbon-dated to around 305 BC when China was still not unified. It must have been bought … Read more