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27th October 2017 Skopje, North Macedonia

Paul Edwards

Deputy Head of Mission, British Embassy Skopje

Why carve a lion-man?

Photo credit BBC webpage, Lion Man Living With The Gods: The Beginnings of Belief. (© Museum Ulm, photo: Oleg Kuchar, Ulm)

In his BBC radio series “living with the gods”, the British historian Neil MacGregor looks back at religious items of the past.  His story begins in a cave some 35 to 40 thousand years ago. In that cave a Stone Age man or woman sits with a woolly mammoth tusk in her hands. Her life and […]

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