skulls

In case you haven’t noticed …

Jun 14, 2022

anniversaries, battles, Book Reviews, buildings, religion

Archbishop of Canterbury, Barrie Williams, Bosworth, Dan Snow, daughters of Edward IV, de la Pole family, Edward of Middleham, Edward of Warwick, Elizabeth of York, Joanna, John Earl of Lincoln, Manuel Duke of Beja, Margaret of Salisbury, On this day in history, Peasants’ Revolt, Portuguese archives, Richard III, Sheriff Hutton, Simon of Sudbury, skulls, St. Gregory’s

… we like our anniversaries here at Murrey and Blue. Having received this book about anniversaries as a birthday present, I found a substantial amount of unfamiliar information and several new cases, but there were two noticeable lacunae: (14th June on the 1381 Peasants’ Revolt): “Sudbury‘s skull survives, in St. Gregory’s Church in Norwich …”…
Richard III had magnificent teeth….!

Aug 28, 2021

archaeology, Science, The play’s the thing

Christ Church Greyfriars, Henry VII, Leicester dig, Leicester University, Richard III, Shakespeare, skulls, teeth

“….[Richard’s] teeth, judging by the perfectly preserved skull, are magnificent….” Well, so they are! This article says so! However, it also mentions hunchbacks and the University of Leicester “leading” the search for Richard’s remains, so there are minuses as well. BUT, his teeth are great! Which is more than can be said of Henry…
Richard III and the Ancient Egyptian cheese….!

Aug 25, 2021

anniversaries, archaeology, art, buildings, religion, Science

Ancient Egypt, Anglo-Saxons, anthropology, Armenia, Azerbaijan, bamboo strips, barley, Battle of Bosworth, BBC, beer, Blombos cave, board games, Canada, cave art, cheese, China, Ciampate del Diavolo, Clotilda, Cote d’Ivoire, Erebus, gold, human hair, Indonesia, Israel, Italy, King Herod, Leicester, Leicester Greyfriars, mammoths, Mary Stuart, multiplication tables, Northwest Passage, nutcrackers, Pembrokeshire, Philippa Langley, quarry, Richard III, Roman villa, royal portraits, royal tombs, Russia, sculptures, shoes, Sir John Franklin, Sir John Maitland, skulls, slave ship, South Africa, Staffordshire Hoard, Stonehenge, storytelling, tomb of Ptahmes, USA, Wiltshire, X-rays

In this intriguing list of twenty , the discovery of Richard III’s remains comes in at number two! He was pipped at the post by an extremely old cheese from Egypt. Eh? Old cheese? Sorry, but can that possibly be more important than Richard? It doesn’t even have King Tut’s fingerprints or teethmarks! 😦 Oh…
A year of anniversaries

Dec 23, 2016

battles, television reviews, The play’s the thing

Anglo-Saxons, anniversaries, Battle of Hastings, burial, Canterbury Cathedral, Channel Four, Cnut, Cordelia, drama, Edmund Ironside, epitaph, Ethelred II, feet, Ground Penetrating Radar, Helen Castor, House of Wessex, inaccuracy, John Morton, King Lear, Richard III, Shakespeare, skulls, Stamford Bridge

2016 has been the 1000th anniversary of Edund Ironside’s accession and death, also of the death of his father Ethelred Unraed and the double accession of Cnut of Denmark. It has also been the 950th anniverary of the battles of Stamford Bridge and Hastings, being the end of the House of Wessex after its interruption.…
A Scottish Consort is identified

Sep 2, 2016

archaeology, Science

Dundee University, facial reconstruction, Henry Lord Darnley, identification, James V, James VI/I, Kirk o’Fields, Mary Stuart, Matthew Earl of Lennox, portraits, Scotland, skulls, Stewarts

Late last year, we showed how James VI/I’s grandfathers, James V and Matthew Earl of Lennox, shared the same Y-chromosome. Now there is some facial reconstruction news about his father, Henry Lord Darnley: A student at the University of Dundee, which reconstructed Richard’s face after his identification, has provided the same service for Darnley (above).…

skulls

In case you haven’t noticed …

Richard III had magnificent teeth….!

Richard III and the Ancient Egyptian cheese….!

A year of anniversaries

A Scottish Consort is identified