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“Rothschild Canticles”, turn of the 14th century ”An intensely illustrated florilegium of meditations and prayers drawing from Song of Songs and Augustine’s De Trinitate, among other texts, the Rothschild Canticles is remarkable for its full-page miniatures, historiated initials, and drawings, which show the work of multiple artists.” Source

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Laziness, 1560, Pieter Bruegel the Elder

Medium: engraving,paper

Crystal crouching Venus from the 1st century B.C.

Statuettes like this one can help preserve the original (now lost) large-scale sculpture’s appearance, and capture the trends in the depictions of popular goddesses from that time.

Interview with Horace Drew join us tonight.

Shoreditch doorway with No 19 Covid Eau de Virus artwork

If this is a real billboard already, the Tories are absolutely done and Sunak is absolutely finished.

Seven Sisters secrets to be uncovered before cliffs tumble into the sea

The secrets of the cliffs at Seven Sisters are set to be uncovered by archaeologists who believe the site could be on the of UK’s most important prehistoric monuments. 

The hilltop enclosure at Belle Tout is an ‘archaeological mystery’ – according to the National Trust, whose archaeologists will be starting a dig next month (September) to uncover the secrets before the cliffs erode into the sea. 

They hope to find evidence of an early Bronze Age settlement. It is already known that there is a huge outer earthwork, 1.2km long, but archaeologists have yet to arrive at a date for when the hilltop enclosure was built. Previous finds are from different eras including prehistoric flintwork and early Bronze Age Beaker pottery.

What sets this project apart from previous excavations is the application of new scientific techniques such as LiDAR laser scanning, environmental sampling, Optical Stimulated Luminescence (which measures the last time an object was exposed to light) and even analysing microscopic snails, which only exist in certain habitats and give clues as to the ancient landscape. Read more.

Birth of a universe: by Sam Del Russi