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Posted on:January 21, 2023January 9, 2023Historical Objects

Seeing the Dead: The Fayum Mummy Portraits

One unifying thing that people find enjoyable about history is learning about the people who have come before us. We want to feel connected to our ancestors, to understand how they dealt with the trials and tribulations of their times, how wars were started, palaces were built, empires spread – but also the stories of […]

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Posted on:February 7, 2017August 8, 2022Uncategorized

The Enduring Appeal of a Lolcat: Ancient and Medieval Cats as Pets

If you have spent as much as half an hour on the internet, then you cannot have missed the fact that the internet is obsessed with cats. From the website that popularised the idea of the Lolcat, to the millions of Youtube videos of the furry creatures (the top result for “cat” on Youtube is […]

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