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Why Neo-Nazis Are Obsessed With the Occult
The Nazis themselves were murder nerds. Now their successors are LARPing as wizards of racial superiority as they commit very ...
A depas goblet excavated from the ruins of Troy by Heinrich Schliemann in the 1870s University of Tübingen In the first book of the Iliad, the god Hephaestus passes a “double goblet” around ...
providing chemical evidence that supports a hypothesis proposed in the 19th century by Heinrich Schliemann, the discoverer of the legendary city. This finding, recently published in the April edition ...
For the first time ever, a team of researchers has found chemical evidence that wine was actually drunk in Troy, verifying a conjecture of Heinrich Schliemann, who discovered the legendary ...
Based on organic residues – imperceptible to the naked eye and detectable only at a molecular level – bronze age wine consumption must be fundamentally reconsidered.
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Wine drinking in ancient Troy was not restricted to the upper classes, as has long been supposed – something our new research ...
“Heinrich Schliemann already conjectured that the depas goblet was passed around at celebrations – just as described in the Iliad,” says Dr. Stephan Blum from the Institute of ...
In the late 19th century, German archaeologist Heinrich Schliemann (1822-1890) excavated the ancient city of Troy. He was hoping to discover the residence of Priam, the king of the city besieged by ...
Heinrich Schliemann's 19th-century excavations initially brought Troy into the limelight. Schliemann was captivated by the depas amphikypellon, a two-handle drinking cup referenced in Homer's ...