Paleo-anthropologists have recently analyzed the skeletons of two humans dating over 2,300 years ago from Ancient China which suggest that deliberate amputation of the limbs of one leg might have been done as a type of legal punishment. The skeletons came from the former Eastern Zhou Dynasty (771-256 BCE) near the modern city of Sanmenxia. […]
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Tycho Brahe (d. 1601), arguably one of the best naked-eye astronomers in history, also had one of the most famous noses in history. Mostly remembered for his accurate and detailed observations on the locations of stars and planets, twenty-year-old Tycho got into a drunken argument with a distant cousin about who was the better mathematician.
Many are looking forward to the fall because of the cooler nights, pumpkin-spice everything, and the changing leaves: here’s a Medieval skeleton to enhance the mood. This chap, known to archaeologists as T US 380, lived between the 6th and 8th centuries among the Longobard peoples in Italy. He had had a hard life, dying
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