Archaeologists began a historic dig on Monday which they hope will unlock the ancient secrets of Stonehenge once and for all.
The researchers started digging a trench to examine the first stones erected at the site – the first excavation at the monument to be given the go-ahead for 44 years.
Samples recovered from the pit will […]

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The Medieval Imagination: Illuminated manuscripts from Cambridge, Australia and New Zealand will be on display at the State Library of Victoria in Melbourne through June 15.
More than 90 manuscripts are on display. Dating from the 8th to the 16th centuries, they include examples of deluxe book production from Byzantium, England, France, Germany, Italy, the Netherlands […]

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The volume is based on The Travels of Sir John Mandeville, a medieval chronicle of the supposed adventures of a knight who leaves England on Michaelmas Day 1322, and criss-crosses the globe for more than three decades. It is part travel manual (Christopher Columbus apparently cribbed from it) and part unalloyed fantasy - Sir […]

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I imagine that the random assortment of realia et alia that gets turned into linkspages looks a bit like the results from a slot machine gone berserk. In any case, today’s new linkspages are on oil lamps, “vesseller”/butlers’ cupboards, and extant rosaries, rosary beads, & paternosters.

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A recent study of the lions kept at the Royal Menagerie at the Tower of London in the 14th and 15th centuries reveals that they were part of a now-extinct species, known as the Barbary lion.

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Today’s new linkspage is on shovels and spades.

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