The Time Tribe

The time travel adventure game that blends exploration, role-play, puzzle-solving, and real world clues to forge an interactive story filled with ancient relics, dastardly plots, and real history! Mystery, archaeology, danger - come on, you know you want to try it.... The Time Tribe

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Medieval book transport

You are looking at two ‘wraps’ (top), the outside and inside of a box (middle), and a leather satchel (bottom). What they share is not just their old age (they are all medieval), but also the purpose for which they were made: to transport a book from A to B. The actual reason for transporting books in these objects varied considerably. The wraps are late-medieval girdle books, which were hanged from the owner’s belt by the knot. The text inside - which was often of legal or religious nature - could be consulted quickly and easily: just unwrap it and read. The box (and the ninth-century book inside) had a more exotic use: the package functioned as a charm for good luck on the battlefield, where it was carried in front of the troops by a monk. The satchel, which also dates from the ninth century, was just a bag to transport a book while on the go - it was popular among monks. Read more about these fascinating devices in my blog post “Medieval Books on the Go” (here).  

Pics -  Wrap at top: Stockholm, Royal Library (16th century, source); Wrap below it: Yale, Beinecke Library, MS 84 (15th century, source); Box: Dublin, Royal, Irish Academy, D ii 3 (8th/9th century, source); Satchel: Dublin, Trinity, College, MS 52 (Book of Armagh, 9th century, source).

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Happy Festive season: Geronimo, Allons-y, Fantastic! #Sweetie

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Archaeologists have used an army field hospital’s x-ray machine to examine a corroded steel sword, confirming the pattern of the weapon alongside a spearhead and shield core found at a burial site on Salisbury Plain.

The 85 centimetre blade was found with the grave goods at Barrow Clump, a...

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Porcupines on parade

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Thank Goodness For Wikipedia

After 244 years, the Encyclopaedia Brittanica has stopped printing.

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End of an era!

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Behold the ''bollocks'' dagger. Anatomically correct.

Behold the ''Bollocks'' dagger, commissioned by the Royal Shakespeare Company to make things real for this season's Henry IV productions.

Or if you're feeling prudish, make like the Victorians and call it a ''kidney'' dagger.

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Toot-a-Loo!

The flushing toilet was invented by Sir John Harington, privy councillor to Elizabeth I and - clearly - one fastidious AND clever gent.

Harington died on this day in 1612. Spare a thought (and some gratitude?) for him tonight, tomorrow, whenever you pay your next visit to the ''throne.''

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Behold: The Last American Vampire

It might sound like a grisly Halloween tale concocted by Bram Stoker, but when a vampire hysteria gripped a small New England town in 1892, its residents exhumed the bodies of one family stricken by consumption and tore the heart out of the corpse of one teenaged girl suspected of being undead.

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19th-century Ghosts are Big News

In honor of Halloween, get ready for some vintage shivers, courtesy of the New York Times.

http://mobile.nytimes.com/blogs/learning/2014/10/30/throwback-thursday-historic-hauntings/?referrer=

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Genomic fossils show that some early humans and Neanderthals were an item.

And here we were, thinking that widespread acceptance of interracial marriage was a new phenomenon.

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3 words: FRENCH THE LLAMA!

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SO VERY CUTE!

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Where does French the Llama hang out when he's not modelling chic new duds? Find him at the Keep, in the ''Greatest'' room of all. See you there?

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Jokes for the history geek fandom.

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Saint George and the Dragon

by Michael Pacher

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Oil on softwood panel with canvas backing, 54 x 40 cm

Collection: National Trust

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Ooh - we never really imagined St George in this way. But love it. A kinder, gentler George.

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Hair weaves? Nothing new under the sun. 

Check out these ancient shoulder-length box braids. 

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How lasers revealed an ancient city in the jungle

Deep in the Cambodian jungle lie the remains of a vast medieval city. New archaeological techniques are now revealing its secrets.

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Who, they are asking, is buried within?

Greeks captivated by Alexander-era tomb at Amphipolis.