Double, double, toil and trouble…
Archaeologists in northern Israel say they have discovered the world’s oldest known grave of a shaman. The 12,000-year-old grave holds an elderly female of the mysterious Natufian culture, animal parts, and a human foot…
The full story is at National Geographic News.
As we contemplate what we’ll take with us, we might recall that it was on this date (18 Brumaire in the French Republican Calendar) in 1799 that thirty-year-old Corsican General Napoleon Bonaparte overthrew the Directory in France and established the Consulate, ending the power of the revolutionary oligarchy.
Napoleon in the Coup de 18 Brumaire (detail of an oleo by Bouchot)