The Highlands of Scotland proved to be a natural recruiting ground for emigrants that were to help build North America during the 18th and 19th centuries.
Blaand: Scotland’s National Drink Before Whisky
“Single malt whisky has been produced in and associated with Scotland for more than five hundred years. It has long since been thought of as the country’s national drink and its fibres are intricately woven through the fabric of – particularly – rural life. The word itself is even a derivation of “uisge beatha” – a Gaelic expression meaning, “The water of life.””
Read the full article here: Blaand: Scotland’s National Drink Before Whisky
Why Dead Languages Like Akkadian Still Matter
“The language of the ancient Akkad region, or modern-day Iraq, is considered a “dead language,” just like Ugaritic and Phoenician. All these dead tongues, however, fed into the Hebrew Bible, the most read book in history, and so they have a form of eternal life.”
Read the full article here: Why Dead Languages Like Akkadian Still Matter
16th Century Images of Irish People
“A collection of images depicting 16th century Irish people. Although the majority of figures illustrated are soldiers and warriors, there are also some fine pictures of women, especially by the Flemish artist, Lucas d’Heere. “
The full article here.
Pangur Bán
22 Pounds of Bog Butter
“Bog butter is just that: butter made from cow’s milk that’s been buried in a bog, though, after thousands of years, it often has the consistency of cheese.”
Man finds 22-pound chunk of butter estimated to be more than 2,000 years old in Irish bog
DNA Solves Mysteries of Ancient Ireland
“She’s a brown-eyed, brown-haired woman, with a face that would be right at home in the Mediterranean or the Middle East.
And she’s Irish.”
Five Lost Languages Rediscovered in Massachusetts
Five Lost Languages Rediscovered in Massachusetts
“Smithsonian linguist Ives Goddard finds that the Native Americans of central Massachusetts spoke five languages instead of one. “
The Bacton Altar Cloth
“Historic Royal Palaces curators have identified an intricately embroidered altar cloth as incredibly rare fragment of Elizabethan dress. The richly embroidered altar cloth, preserved for centuries in a small rural church in Bacton, Herefordshire, has recently been identified by experts as a piece of a sixteenth century dress, which may even have belonged to Queen Elizabeth I herself.
In this video Tracy Borman and Eleri Lynn, the Curator of the Dress Collection describe the significance of the find, what it was like to discover it and what we can learn about Elizabeth I’s court and society.”
Photo found at www.itv.com
Mergerian Carpet Armenia
Feature photo from cometoarmenia.am
“Since ancient times the Armenian Highland has been known as the cradle of Armenian carpet weaving. The Armenian people can trace a thousand year tradition …“
Clan MacColin 