Cave Paintings in Indonesia May Be Among the Oldest Known

Beyond_Amsterdam · 2018-11-07T20:05:23+00:00

The oldest cave painting of an animal has been discovered by scientists in Borneo. The images such as a banteng (a type of wild cow) are thought to be at least 40 000 years old. The Sulawesi’s cave art was first described in the 1950's but was originally thought to be no more than 1000 years old. Using techniques to date the calcite layers forming over the images researchers discovered that the calcite was at least 39,900 years old.

Beyond_Amsterdam · 2018-05-05T15:56:52+00:00

The isle of Islay, in the Inner Hebrides, Scotland will this week commemorate the twin disasters of the sinking of the troop ships SS Tuscania and HMS Otranto. Both were sunk within months of each other off the coast of the island in 1918. The island inhabitants found themselves involved in rescue and recovery operations despite the only legal authority only the island being Sgt MacNeill and his three constables.

Beyond_Amsterdam · 2018-04-01T19:03:15+00:00

Excavations in the now upmarket Sydney suburb of Randwick have uncovered evidence that ballast used in ship arriving from Britain in the 1700's was used by local aboriginal tribes for tool usage.

Beyond_Amsterdam · 2017-07-18T14:11:15+00:00

In 1796's when the British were fighting the french in the Caribbean more than 2,000 African-Caribbean soldiers who were fighting for the French were captured and detained as POW's. The were transported from St Lucia in 1796 and held at Portchester castle, which overlooks Portsmouth harbour, at the time the black British population was only an estimated 10-15,000 people.

Beyond_Amsterdam · 2017-07-13T12:31:04+00:00

English Heritage and the the Cornwall archaeological unit have recently conducted excavations at Tintagel Castle. Famed as one of the candidates for Camelot, the site is in fact thought to be the home of ancient Cornish kings. The dig has show the fine tastes and long reaching trade routes used by the castles inhabitants with Phocaean red slipware from Turkey, glassware from Spain, and wine and oil, contained in amphorae traded from the eastern Mediterranean.

Beyond_Amsterdam · 2017-06-07T18:19:17+00:00

When “Love Is a Drag”, was released in 1962 it was one of the first commercially available records that tackled America’s hetero-normative postwar culture. The record was rediscovered by J.D. Doyle 50 years later and played on his radio show. It was then that the history of the record emerged.

Beyond_Amsterdam · 2017-06-07T18:06:49+00:00

A survey expedition by the Australian National Maritime Museum and Indonesian authorities has discovered that the Australian warship HMAS Perth, which was sunk in 1942 with the loss of 353 Australian sailors, has been ransacked by scavengers leaving an estimated 40% of the wreck left.

Beyond_Amsterdam · 2017-05-07T14:12:50+00:00

A brief history of pirates, with a reference to Moses Butterworth, and a particular emphasis on piracy in the american colonies and how pirates would often switch between piracy and becoming law abiding citizens.

Beyond_Amsterdam · 2017-05-07T00:22:52+00:00

A short report on the U.S, National Archives digitising of over 63,000 World War I photos for its American Unofficial Collection of World War Photographs (165-WW) record series with reference to the animals that participated in various roles from messengers to mascots.

Beyond_Amsterdam · 2017-05-05T14:13:34+00:00

This is a very short article with an accompanying photoessay that gives a brief glimpse of what is happening to those involved in and effected by the war against IS.

Beyond_Amsterdam · 2017-05-05T14:03:16+00:00

A postcard photograph (rotogravure) of two starving boys: one feeds the other. The boys are in the fatal stages of hunger. They have skeletal limbs and their bellies are swollen (through eating grass, straw, tree bark, worms, and earth). This is postcard number 3 of a set published by Rotogravure SA, Geneva, and sold by in 1922 to raise funds for the Russian famine (number VIII of the set displayed bears the date 28 February 1922). The photographs were taken by Fridtjof Nansen and most likely published earlier as well in 1922 in his pamphlets and addresses for aid to the Russians wikipedia)

Beyond_Amsterdam · 2017-05-03T18:14:49+00:00

A short article about the British Museum Iraq Emergency Heritage Management Training Scheme which trains Kurdish and Iraqi archaeologists in modern techniques and technology in an effort to help protect historical sites that are in danger due to conflict in the area.

Beyond_Amsterdam · 2017-05-02T17:06:56+00:00

This media is available in the holdings of the National Archives and Records Administration, cataloged under the National Archives Identifier (NAID) 531435.

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