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The best AO articles from the same week last year .... View this email [in your browser]( [logo-en] [Premium Discounts]( | [Contact](mailto:info@ancient-origins.net?subject=A%20year%20ago%3A%20What%20was%20trendy%20on%20Ancient%20Origins) [image?cs_ema...]( [Learn more about RevenueStripe...]( What Comforting Items Did Vikings Have That Are Still the Height of Luxury Today? In the largest and most richly equipped Viking burial mounds discovered in Norway there are usually found beds and several types of bird feathers and down from pillows and duvets, including eagle-owls’ feathers. This demonstrates that wealthy Viking aristocrats slept as they lived: quite comfortably. Modern technology and knowledge makes it possible to separate feathers and down from different bird species, and according to the Norwegian research portal Gemini.no, there have been discovered remains from a variety of birds – including the Eurasian eagle-owl, Northern Europe’s largest owl... [Read More...]( Trial by Public Performance: The Impotence Trials of Pre-Revolutionary France The impotence trials of prerevolutionary France sound a bit like a political joke. France had mostly squelched the ability for couples to divorce, and it was in the wake of this that the impotence trials arose. Yet due to the religious necessity that sexual encounters with one's spouse should produce—or at least be capable of producing—children, when a man failed to hold up his end of the bargain, it was technically an act against religion and cause for a re-evaluation of the marriage. Divorce itself was not a concept taken lightly, so naturally, the accused husband... [Read More...]( [Ancient Origins Premium]( Erotic Medieval Runic Inscriptions Found in Bergen A runic inscription found in Bergen is quite long and the author must have had a lot of “erotic energy” when he carved these runes into the 33 centimeter-long (13 inches) wooden stick: “I love that man’s wife so high that fire feels cold! And I am that woman’s lover”. There have so far been found about 700 runic inscriptions dating back to the 14th century in the Bryggen area in Bergen, Western Norway. Several of the inscriptions have a short and erotic message carved into a flat stick of wood, showing that young men have not changed since the Middle Ages. [Read More...]( Half-a-million-year-old Feeding Ground for Homo Erectus Found Near Tel Aviv For their good luck, archaeologists noted, that the prehistoric hunter-gatherers that occupied the site, left behind evidence of hundreds of knapped flint hand-axes, as The Guardian reports . The hundreds of flint hand-axes were unearthed during a dig just next to Route 6, one of Israel's busiest highways, the Israel Antiquities Authority stated. The team of researchers revealed more details about the discovery, such as that the spot the axes were found was at a five-meter depth at Jaljulia, near the town of Kfar Saba. The finds indicate that a long-lost species of early... [Read More...]( You Might Like [image?cs_ema...]( [image?cs_ema...]( [image?cs_ema...]( [image?cs_ema...]( [image?cs_ema...]( [image?cs_ema...]( [Learn more about RevenueStripe...]( [FindUs_small...]( [FindUs_small...]( [FindUs_small...]( [FindUs_small...]( [FindUs_small...]( [FindUs_small...]( [FindUs_small...]( [FindUs_small...]( You have received this email because you have subscribed to [Ancient-Origins.net](. Copyright © 2018 [Stella Novus Limited]( - [Ancient Origins]( Stella Novus Limited - Ancient Origins. 61 Saint Assam's Park, Raheny, Dublin 5, D05 W3C8, Ireland. Stella Novus Limited | 61 Saint Assam's Park | Raheny | Dublin 5 | D05 W3C8 | Ireland | +353 876 087 916 [Unsubscribe]( | [Report spam]( Sent with [ActiveTrail](?utm_medium=Email&utm_source=List&utm_campaign=NormalEnglish) software