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theancientwayoflife

~ Bone Carved with a Male Figure and an Inscription.

Date: A.D. 750–1000

Culture/Place of origin: Mexico, Northern Yucatán or Jaina Island, Maya

Period: Late Classic Period

Medium: Human femur

archaeologicalnews

Fresh DNA tests authenticate bones of Russia tsar, family

Fresh genetic tests on bones of Russia’s last tsar and his family murdered a century ago have confirmed their authenticity, investigators said Monday.

The tests could be a step towards the Russian Orthodox Church finally recognising the bones and burying them with full rites.

Genetic tests ordered by the Church—which disputed earlier results—"confirmed the remains found belonged to the former Emperor Nicholas II, his family members and members of their entourage,“ said the Investigative Committee, which probes serious crime and has been roped in to resolve the long-running debate.

The tests involved exhuming Nicholas’s father Alexander III, proving “they are father and son,” investigators said.

The Orthodox Church said it would consider the findings and praised the way the investigation was going. Read more.

Hello, I’m a mess And when you’re gone, it sucks And I could travel over miles or I could spend a million bucks But without you This house would be ruined Without you I am just a mess

#poetry

biomedicalephemera

Anterior and Posterior Skeleton

Anatomical Plates of the Bones and Muscles. Robert Hooper, 1807.

daliastudy

[01.11.17] one word to describe today? exhausting. from my 8:30am lecture till now, I’m ready to crash! (ᴗ˳ᴗ)💤

ig: teawithstudies

theambassadorposts

know your history

#history

frankenfran

my favourite thing about the ancient egyptian numerals is that once you get to a certain point really high up in numbers you just have this little guy holding out his arms saying “a whole fuckin lot of numbers”

frankenfran

dont know why this got notes but i figured itd be relevant to add that the little guy’s name is “heh”

theolduvaigorge

“Probable mastoiditis secondary to otitis media. Left temporal bone.“

(Source: @AngelaLieverse on Twitter)

just-shower-thoughts

The skeleton isn’t inside you, you’re the brain so you’re inside the skeleton.

nerdy-cartographer

@a-fragile-sort-of-anarchy

When you don't know anything about linguistics: The plural of "memorandum" is "memoranda", why can't people get it right

When you know a little about linguistics: The plural of "memorandum" should just be "memorandums" because that's how people naturally say it, "memoranda" is just prescriptivism

When you know a lot about linguistics: Oh my god? So certain English words borrowed from Latin and Greek have competing plural forms, with one form using the English plural -s and the other using a borrowed Latin or Greek form? Do you realize how crazy that is - a language borrowing *inflectional morphology* from another language? And here the two competing plural forms have become markers of education, expertise, and social class, isn't that incredible?

When you have a degree in linguistics and dgaf anymore: memorandibles