History
What is Boso-no-MURA?Chiba Prefectural Boso-no-MURA (Sakae Town, Inba District, Chiba Prefecture) is a participatory museum where you can learn about the history of Boso by directly experiencing its traditional lifestyle and techniques. There are approximately 400 types of experiences and demonstrations held each year, including ones that can be attended without reservations and ones that even beginners can participate with peace of mind. Recommended experience programsRecommended programs to try during your free time are the tea ceremony and Chiyogami candle making. During the tea ceremony, y...
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An excavation of a hotel in northwesternFrance’s city of Vannes has unearthed the remains of a medieval castle including jewelry, coins and household objects. The discovery was made during a dig between February and April 2023, in advance of building a fine arts museum, Knewz.com has learned. While archaeologists were aware of the site, they were not prepared for the extend of the finds, France’s National Institute of Archaeological Research (INRAP) announced on March 28. The dig was carried out as part of what INRAP called “preventative archaeology,” ahead of the construction of the future mu...
Knewz (UK)
An excavation of a hotel in northwesternFrance’s city of Vannes has unearthed the remains of a medieval castle including jewelry, coins and household objects. The discovery was made during a dig between February and April 2023, in advance of building a fine arts museum, Knewz.com has learned. While archaeologists were aware of the site, they were not prepared for the extend of the finds, France’s National Institute of Archaeological Research (INRAP) announced on March 28. The dig was carried out as part of what INRAP called “preventative archaeology,” ahead of the construction of the future mu...
Knewz (CA)
An excavation of a hotel in northwesternFrance’s city of Vannes has unearthed the remains of a medieval castle including jewelry, coins and household objects. The discovery was made during a dig between February and April 2023, in advance of building a fine arts museum, Knewz.com has learned. While archaeologists were aware of the site, they were not prepared for the extend of the finds, France’s National Institute of Archaeological Research (INRAP) announced on March 28. The dig was carried out as part of what INRAP called “preventative archaeology,” ahead of the construction of the future mu...
Knewz
The German postal service Deutsche Post has discontinued its domestic mail flights after more than 62 years. In the early hours of Thursday, the last aircraft carrying domestic mail took off from Berlin and flew to Stuttgart. Shortly before that, planes had taken off from Hanover, Munich and Stuttgart. The six planes were carrying only letters - a total of around 1.5 million items weighing 53 tons. This corresponds to around 3% of the volume of letters transported by Deutsche Post around the country every day. In future, the postal service will no longer use letter transport aircraft in order ...
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Scientists in the UK have found evidence that microplastics are contaminating archaeological soil samples. The discovery has the potential to upend the way historical remains are preserved. Tiny particles of microplastics were discovered seven metres underground in samples dating from the first or early second century. They were first excavated in the 1980s. “This feels like an important moment, confirming what we should have expected: that what were previously thought to be pristine archaeological deposits, ripe for investigation, are in fact contaminated with plastics, and that this includes...
Euronews (English)
Ballads were all the rage, and we’re not talking about Stairway to Heaven. These were songs sung straight from the mouths of balladeers: musicians who went from place to place setting lyrics to music for the public’s listening pleasure. The tunes they played were often already well-known. But instead of coming up with the lyrics themselves, these itinerant performers might have just bought a new sheet of lyrics from a budding songwriter. And so the commercial music market as we know it was born. Universal Music Group threatens to pull millions of songs from TikTok in rights disputeThis is acco...
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A puzzling gap in the knowledge of ancient human whereabouts over a roughly 20,000-year period has finally been filled, according to experts. Researchers have pinpointed the Persian Plateau — also known as the Iranian Plateau — as a pivotal geographical crossroad in the early exodus of Homo sapiens out of Africa, Knewz.com has learned. An international team of scientists detailed their findings in a study titled "The Persian plateau served as hub for Homo sapiens after the main out of Africa dispersal," published on Monday, March 25, in the journal Nature Communications. Based on genetic and a...
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A puzzling gap in the knowledge of ancient human whereabouts over a roughly 20,000-year period has finally been filled, according to experts. Researchers have pinpointed the Persian Plateau — also known as the Iranian Plateau — as a pivotal geographical crossroad in the early exodus of Homo sapiens out of Africa, Knewz.com has learned. An international team of scientists detailed their findings in a study titled "The Persian plateau served as hub for Homo sapiens after the main out of Africa dispersal," published on Monday, March 25, in the journal Nature Communications. Based on genetic and a...
Knewz (UK)
A puzzling gap in the knowledge of ancient human whereabouts over a roughly 20,000-year period has finally been filled, according to experts. Researchers have pinpointed the Persian Plateau — also known as the Iranian Plateau — as a pivotal geographical crossroad in the early exodus of Homo sapiens out of Africa, Knewz.com has learned. An international team of scientists detailed their findings in a study titled "The Persian plateau served as hub for Homo sapiens after the main out of Africa dispersal," published on Monday, March 25, in the journal Nature Communications. Based on genetic and a...
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