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Monday, 24 August 2026
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Sunday, 23 August 2026
Earliest dragon and phoenix combination found in northern China

Tomb M38 is a rectangular pit and shaft tomb. The skeletal remains of the deceased were found in supine position head facing northeast, with legs extended and arms straight at his sides. A circular jade bi inlaid in the center with a turquoise stone was placed to the right of his neck. Large clay figurines almost the length of his full body were placed on each side of his body. The dragon figure is on the deceased’s right side, its head facing northeast like the tomb’s occupant. The phoenix is on his left, facing the opposite direction, captured in the moment of rising in flight.

The Neolithic Longshan culture occupied the Yellow River valley of northern and central China between 3000 and 1900 B.C. It is notable for its advanced pottery making techniques, and the thin-walled black in intricate shapes they created on pottery wheels is so characteristic that it was also known as the Black Pottery Culture. Their skill in pottery in evident in the large scale and high quality of the dragon and phoenix figures.
Sun Jinsong said that the ‘dragon and phoenix’ clay figurines at the Zhaizita Stone City site are the earliest and most clearly modeled physical combination of dragon and phoenix discovered so far in northern China, pushing the appearance of figurative ‘dragon and phoenix’ back to the Longshan period. This provides valuable material for studying the spiritual beliefs and burial concepts of the ancestors of the Longshan period. In addition, this discovery shows that the Hetao region made a unique contribution to the creation of early spiritual culture in China, providing evidence for the pluralistic and unified structure of Chinese civilization.
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Saturday, 22 August 2026
Bronze Age “enigmatic tablet” found in northern Italy

The tablets, usually made of clay but sometimes of stone, feature incised lines and impressions of geometric shapes including triangles, squares and circles. The oldest of the tablets are predominately characterized by impressed dots.
They have been interpreted as possible calendars, counting tools, or forms of proto-writing. A ritual function has not been ruled out either, extending to the hypothesis that they might have been used as a sort of sacred amulet. One of the most intriguing interpretations today, however, links them to the management of trade, suggesting a function comparable, in some respects, to modern shipping documents used to identify specific goods (perhaps metal).
In addition to northern Italy, enigmatic tablets have been found in Switzerland, Germany and the Danube-Carpathian Basin area in southeastern Central Europe. The largest single concentration of them has been discovered at the Lucone di Polpenazze site.

What makes Lucone D exceptional among the other pile dwellings at the site is that the village was struck by a catastrophic fire which destroyed the homes but carbonized and preserved many materials that would normally have decomposed. Wooden sickles, loom weights, linen fragments, seeds and the remains of food in a ceramic bowl have survived in carbonized form. The conflagration even preserved some of the sun-dried clay of the dwellings, firing it as it were in a kiln.
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Friday, 21 August 2026
Rare intact 17th century drawing book donated to Rijksmuseum

The Van Eeghen Drawing Book contains about 30 full-page drawings of biblical scenes, some on blue paper, and smaller studies of figures and animals. They are in exceptional condition, because unlike drawings that were cut out of their bindings, the pages inside the book were almost never exposed to light.

Rombout Uylenburgh (1580/85–1627/28) was born in Leeuwarden, in the northern Dutch province of Friesland. His family moved to Kraków when he was still a boy and he grew up to become painter at the court of Polish King Sigismund III. He moved to Danzig in 1612 where his career continued to thrive. He specialized in grisailles, monochrome paintings in shades of grey.

There is no documentation of how the Van Eeghen family acquired the book, but there’s a hint on the binding: an inscription in gold lettering reading “Konstboeck voor Reyer Claessoon” (“Art book for Reyer Claessoon”). Reyer Claessoon was a prominent member of the Dutch community in Danzig when Rombout Uylenburgh lived there. He and Uylenburgh were both Mennonites, so almost certainly knew each other personally. The Van Eeghen family were also part of the Danzig Mennonite community. This is likely the path the book took.

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Thursday, 20 August 2026
Objects from Scotland’s richest Iron Age burial on display

The skeletal remains of a young warrior were discovered in a stone-lined cist grave opposite the town hall of Alloa in the Central Lowlands of Scotland. The site on Marshill was excavated in 2003 before construction of residential homes. Archaeologists found he was between 17 and 25 years old when he died in the 1st century A.D. The young man was marked as a warrior because of his grave goods: an iron sword with a two-foot-long blade in a leather scabbard placed across his chest, a spear by his side.
He was richly adorned with jewelry, including a glass bead pendant, a bronze fibula, a belt with bronze and iron rings and two bronze toe rings. While his shoes were either not buried or had decomposed over the centuries, the toe rings suggest he wore sandals, another indicator of his elite status.
Iron Age burials are very seldom found in Scotland, and ones with weapons are even more rare. This one was unique not just for the overall richness of its contents, but also because some of the individual pieces had never been found before. The belt with rings, for example, was unprecedented on the Scottish archaeological record.
Dr Matthew Knight, Senior Curator of Prehistory at National Museums Scotland, said:
“The remarkable objects from the Marshill burial give us a vivid insight into the mindset of prehistoric communities living in Scotland almost 2,000 years ago. Burying people with weapons may reflect the person’s role in life as a warrior, or how their community wanted them to be seen in the afterlife. These treasured objects tell us this young man was a powerful member of his community. Following extensive research and conservation, I am thrilled that visitors will have the opportunity to see these objects for the first time in Scotland’s First Warriors.”
The Scotland’s First Warriors exhibition runs through May 16, 2027. It features more than 200 objects related to conflict and violence in Scotland from the Neolithic through the Roman era, including other artifacts that have never been displayed before, such as the Carnoustie Hoard of Bronze Age weapons.
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National Television Awards pick first all-female shortlist for drama acting award
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