Archaeologists Hunt for the Tomb of Genghis Khan. His end didn't begin heroically. The Mongolian ruler simply fell off his horse. His hands and legs must have lost their strength. It was an embarrassing incident from which Genghis Khan never recovered. Shortly thereafter, a procession of slaves and warriors escorted the ruler's body, wrapped in a white felt blanket, to its final resting place.
Slivers of fragrant sandalwood were placed in the grave to prevent insects from gnawing at the body of the Great Khan. But where exactly did the subjects bury the body of this tyrant, who is still revered by Mongolians today? Today, expeditions with high-tech equipment are racing to make the find. Meanwhile, Chinese researchers have sent an expedition to the foothills of the Altai Mountains, with the assumption this is where Genghis Khan was buried after he died during his last military campaign against the Tangut, in modern-day northern China.
Can Technology Find Genghis Khan? "I can't imagine how this could produce convincing proof. The Other Khan. The greatest mystery of the Inca Empire was its strange economy. Is my Snake or Lizard Sick? | The Center for Bird & Exotic Animal Medicine, Bothell WA. Is My Reptile Sick Reptiles, like all animals, are susceptible to a variety of bacterial, viral, fungal, metabolic and neoplastic diseases. Unlike domestic animals (dogs, cats, cows, horses and so on) that usually act sick when they are, reptiles are still very much wild animals and hide their illnesses until they are so weakened by the disease that they cannot hide it any longer. As a result, all reptile owners need to be aware of small, subtle changes that may signal illness. So how can you tell if your lizard or snake is ill? Physical Condition and Attitude: A quick overview of the condition of your animal is often the first indicator that a reptile is ill.
Body condition is also an excellent marker of health or chronic disease. Droppings: A normal herp dropping has three components. The white portion should always be white/cream colored. Appetite: Anorexia in a reptile is a symptom of a disease, not a disease itself. Care and Feeding of Carnivorous Snakes and Lizards | The Center for Bird & Exotic Animal Medicine, Bothell WA. Care and Feeding of carnivorous Snakes and Lizards Care and Feeding of Carnivorous Snakes and Lizards Carnivorous reptiles include snakes and large lizards including monitors, tegus, alligators and crocodilians.
Most illness is caused by improper diet and husbandry. Poor diet, unsanitary enclosures and temperatures that are too warm or consistently below optimum temperature, stress the immune system and may eventually result in disease. Feeding All carnivorous reptiles do well on a diet of whole prey. Husbandry Most reptiles can be housed in aquariums or Plexiglas cages with secure lids. Heat rocks should not be relied upon to warm the enclosure. Equipment/ supplies for carnivorous reptiles. CRYPTOSPORIDIA. Cryptosporidiosis in Lizards by: Marcia McGuiness © Golden Gate Geckos 2009 Purpose: This provides some facts and common myths about the parasite Cryptosporidium, aka “crypto”, in a comprehensive article targeted for the average lizard keeper, hobbyist, and breeder.
Description: There are eleven strains of Cryptosporidium, which is a mutant form of Coccidia. These are single-celled protozoan parasites with a direct life cycle, which means that the microorganism can complete its life cycle (from egg to larvae to adult) within a single host animal’s body. Most reptiles are considered susceptible to Cryptosporidiosis, especially snakes. Crypto affects snakes and lizards differently, and is much more difficult to diagnose in lizards because the symptoms are more elusive than in snakes.
Contagion and Transmission: Some experts claim that ALL lizards have Cryptosporidium, but this is completely unfounded and false. Clinical Symptoms: The progressive symptoms of Crypto in lizards are: - lethargy. This 1,600-Year-Old Goblet Shows that the Romans Were Nanotechnology Pioneers | History. The colorful secret of a 1,600-year-old Roman chalice at the British Museum is the key to a supersensitive new technology that might help diagnose human disease or pinpoint biohazards at security checkpoints. The glass chalice, known as the Lycurgus Cup because it bears a scene involving King Lycurgus of Thrace, appears jade green when lit from the front but blood-red when lit from behind—a property that puzzled scientists for decades after the museum acquired the cup in the 1950s.
The mystery wasn’t solved until 1990, when researchers in England scrutinized broken fragments under a microscope and discovered that the Roman artisans were nanotechnology pioneers: They’d impregnated the glass with particles of silver and gold, ground down until they were as small as 50 nanometers in diameter, less than one-thousandth the size of a grain of table salt. The original fourth-century A.D. A time traveller’s guide to medieval 14th-century shopping. The poet WH Auden once suggested that, in order to understand your own country, you need to have lived in at least two others. But what about your own time? By the same reckoning, you need to have experienced at least two other centuries. This presents us with some difficulties.
But through historical research, coming to terms with another century is not impossible. We can approach the past as if it really is ‘a foreign country’ – somewhere we might visit. And we do not actually need to travel in time to appreciate it – just the idea of visiting the past allows us to see life differently, and more immediately. Come shopping in the late 14th century and see for yourself. The marketplace “Ribs of beef and many a pie!”
All around him people are moving, gesturing, talking. Crowds are noisy. What can you buy? But in most markets it is the popular varieties which you see glistening in the wet hay-filled crates. These are only for the wealthy. The rest of the marketplace performs two functions. What medieval Europe did with its teenagers. Image copyright Getty Images Today, there's often a perception that Asian children are given a hard time by their parents. But a few hundred years ago northern Europe took a particularly harsh line, sending children away to live and work in someone else's home. Not surprisingly, the children didn't always like it. Around the year 1500, an assistant to the Venetian ambassador to England was struck by the strange attitude to parenting that he had encountered on his travels.
He wrote to his masters in Venice that the English kept their children at home "till the age of seven or nine at the utmost" but then "put them out, both males and females, to hard service in the houses of other people, binding them generally for another seven or nine years". It was for the children's own good, he was told - but he suspected the English preferred having other people's children in the household because they could feed them less and work them harder. So why did this seemingly cruel system evolve? Fashion and beauty secrets of a 2,500 year old Siberian 'princess' from her permafrost burial chamber. 'Goodbye... 'Reconstruction of a burial scene of Ukok Princess, with both women dressed in traditional Pazyryk clothes. All drawings, here and below, were made by Elena Shumakova, Institute of Archeology and Ethnography, Siberian Branch of Russian Academy of Science We recently exclusively revealed the extraordinary tattoos on the mummy of a woman aged approximately 25 years old preserved in her ice-clad wooden coffin high in the Altai Mountains.
Her story and our pictures of her ancient - yet modern-looking - body art captivated the world and was read in The Siberian Times in no less than 165 countries, while also being followed up by many other news outlets. The pictures of 'Princess Ukok's' tattoos can be seen here, if you missed them earlier. Now, thanks to pioneering work by academics in Novosibirsk, we also show how this ancient Pazyryk woman looked in real life and display not only her clothes but also the vivid colours she wore and her stylish headdress.
And her beauty secrets. Siberian princess reveals her 2,500 year old tattoos. She is to be kept in a special mausoleum at the Republican National Museum in capital Gorno-Altaisk, where eventually she will be displayed in a glass sarcophagus to tourists. For the past 19 years, since her discovery, she was kept mainly at a scientific institute in Novosibirsk, apart from a period in Moscow when her remains were treated by the same scientists who preserve the body of Soviet founder Vladimir Lenin. To mark the move 'home', The Siberian Times has obtained intricate drawings of her remarkable tattoos, and those of two men, possibly warriors, buried near her on the remote Ukok Plateau, now a UNESCO world cultural and natural heritage site, some 2,500 metres up in the Altai Mountains in a border region close to frontiers of Russia with Mongolia, China and Kazakhstan.
To many observers, it is startling how similar they are to modern-day tattoos. Reconstruction of Princess Ukok's tattoos, made by Siberian scientists 'It is a phenomenal level of tattoo art. Mapping Emotions On The Body: Love Makes Us Warm All Over : Shots - Health News. People drew maps of body locations where they feel basic emotions (top row) and more complex ones (bottom row). Hot colors show regions that people say are stimulated during the emotion. Cool colors indicate deactivated areas. Image courtesy of Lauri Nummenmaa, Enrico Glerean, Riitta Hari, and Jari Hietanen. Hide caption toggle caption Image courtesy of Lauri Nummenmaa, Enrico Glerean, Riitta Hari, and Jari Hietanen.
People drew maps of body locations where they feel basic emotions (top row) and more complex ones (bottom row). Image courtesy of Lauri Nummenmaa, Enrico Glerean, Riitta Hari, and Jari Hietanen. Close your eyes and imagine the last time you fell in love. Where did you feel the love? When a team of scientists in Finland asked people to map out where they felt different emotions on their bodies, they found that the results were surprisingly consistent, even across cultures. "Say you see a snake and you feel fear," Nummenmaa says. That idea has been known for centuries.