Dying and Rising in the Underworld (and other myths)

Dying and Rising in the Underworld

[embed]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Art_xPe_BBk&ab_channel=Crecganford[/embed] The Journey to the Underworld Motif appears in much mythology, but there are differences, alongside similarities that spread across thousands of miles, cultures, and years. This video looks into this motif, tells many versions of myth, including Persephone, Adonis, Inanna, and Baldr’s, and talks about them in context.

Lecture: She Who Wrote: Enheduanna and Women of Mesopotamia ca. 3400-2000 BC

Lecture: She Who Wrote: Enheduanna and Women of Mesopotamia ca. 3400-2000 BC

[embed]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DlWewLEWbyM&ab_channel=TheMorganLibrary%26Museum[/embed] Sidney Babcock, the Jeannette and Jonathan Rosen Curator and Department Head of the Department of Ancient Western Asian Seals and Tablets and curator of She Who Wrote: Enheduanna and Women of Mesopotamia ca. 3400-2000 B.C., provides an overview of the exhibition’s themes and highlights several key objects. The show brings together for the first…

Stolen Goods or Finders Keepers? Controversies at the British Museum

Stolen Goods or Finders Keepers? Controversies at the British Museum

[embed]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M_8HXihcmUk&ab_channel=TheMuseumGuide[/embed] Looking for more information about the British Museum? Watch my video about its top ten treasures. Don’t forget to like, comment, and subscribe. Leave a comment and let me know your thoughts about the controversies of the British Museum.

‘Singing and dancing to their deaths’: football’s forgotten tragedy | Rangers | The Guardian

I cried and cursed without sound. I could feel my eyes bulge. Then an ear popped. I tasted blood and my chest felt as though it was splintering.Everything became calm. I looked at the horizon and saw the black shapes of the River Clyde cranes against the white sky swap places and become a negative…

The Music of Medieval Iran – An Introduction to Middle-Eastern Music Theory

Medieval Iranian Music

[embed]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k2IPYRXleuo&ab_channel=FaryaFaraji[/embed] This is an introductory overview of the most general aspects of Medieval Iranian music; it also serves as an insight into Middle-Eastern, Near-Eastern, and most historical Greek musical traditions as a whole, so even though the concepts here are described using a Medieval Iranian lens and terminology, they also apply broadly to much of…

Mushrooms can “talk” to each other — and they get extra chatty after a rain, study suggests | Salon.com

What has no eyes, ears, brains or nerves, but still manages to talk?The answer is mushrooms — which, despite appearing docile and still as plants, are most definitely not, as they do not even photosynthesize. Yet these inanimate fungi have incredible ways of communicating that researchers are only beginning to understand.A new study in the…

An Oregon boy found a mammoth tooth in his grandmother’s backyard – The Washington Post

“We were all pretty shocked and excited,” Johnson said. “We’ve enjoyed rockhounding in our family for years, but nobody has ever found anything like this.”“It’s definitely much cooler than the stuff I found as a kid,” she added.O’Grady was also enthusiastic about Jeremiah’s backyard discovery. Johnson had emailed him photos of the grooved tooth after…