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Scientists who have studied Ötzi, the man who was preserved for 3,500 years in the Alps, have identified 61 tattoos on his skin, which are the oldest known. However, experts believe that more than an aesthetic or symbolic function, these tattoos were applied in the belief that they had some healing or protective power. Organized in 19 groups of lines, dots, and crosses, they are found mostly on the back and joints where copper-age man had degenerative conditions. The bottom line is that the tattoos are at least 4,000 years old, as shown by ceramic figurines of women wearing them on their bodies. Throughout history, tattoos have been equally considered magical amulets, signs of identity, declarations of love or expressions of admiration... sometimes obligation and cultural pride as in...

The favorites. Ukraine. The Kalush Orchestra has the sentimental vote in favor. United Kingdom. Same Ryder wants to win with 'Space Man'. Sweden. Cornelia Jakobs will sing the ballad 'Hold Me Closer'. Italy. Mahmood and Blanco will perform 'Brivini'. Spain. Chanel will sing 'SloMo', dressed by Palomo Spain. / CRBets. Chanel, which will perform in tenth place, is among the favorites along with the Ukraine, the United Kingdom, Sweden and ItalyJ. MORENO Madrid Saturday, May 14, 2022, 08:10 May is synonymous with flowers and communions, but also with the largest song festival in the world. Europe puts its d...

Nacho Serrano Updated:05/14/2022 05:30 a.m. Save RELATED NEWSThe Prairie of San Isidro, the most emblematic place of the festivities, will be filled this weekend with music with two days of concerts for all tastes. Today, Saturday, starting at 6:30 p.m., Petit Pop will make the whole family dance and enjoy, and then from 8:00 p.m. until dawn, Jaime Lorente, Derby Motoreta's Burrito Kachimba or Silvia Superstar will perform on stage.And on Sunday the 15th, at 6:00 p.m., La Chica Charcos and The Katiuskas Band will offer a fun cocktail of music, theater and humor before giving the stage to Cecilia Zango, Rojuu and Medina Azahara, closing the night with DJ Rocío Saiz.But the great protagonists of the concerts of this San Isidro are without ...

Archbishop Casimiro Morcillo (left), in 1969 before the incorrupt remains of San Isidro, who lived in the 12th century. / CRThe mummified remains of San Isidro, popular patron saint of Madrid and a handful of Spanish towns, are on public display for the first time in four decades to celebrate the fourth centenary of his canonization and his jubilee yearSan Isidro was born around 1082 in Magerit, the Arab Madrid, then a village, and gave an account with life in 1172, 850 years ago. The farmer, today the patron saint of the town and court and of the farmers, was buried. But the earth was kind to him and his body remains incorrupt. The saint's mummy, which had not been shown in public for 37 years, will be exhibited in this isidril month of May on the occasion of the 400th anniversary ...

A Nepali woman is removed from the village and confined to tiny huts for being on her period. / Zygor AldamaAll three monotheistic religions condemn the period. It is a little studied matter, despite the fact that 75% of women suffer from menstrual painThe feminist Gloria Stein said at the beginning of the 1980s that if men menstruated, menstruation would become an “enviable and proud masculine event”. «Men would boast of its duration and its flow. Adolescents would mark the arrival of the period, a long-awaited symbol of virility, with religious celebrations and exclusively male festivities. Congress would create a National Dysmenorrhea Institute to combat monthly pain, and the Government would provide funds for free hygienic protections» At all times the period has had bad pres...

From left to right starting with the top row. Artem Vyshinyok; Mykola; Kirill Gurov; Bogdan; Igor Myzovets and Stepan Golovko. / CRMariupol. The Government of Ukraine organizes an extreme rescue operation for soldiers injured in the steel millThe Government of Ukraine is preparing a large-scale operation to evacuate wounded soldiers and the bodies of soldiers killed during the Russian siege from the Azovstal steelworks. Today marks eleven days of continuous attacks on this steel complex, the last focus of resistance against the invaders in the strategic port city of Mariupol and a global metaphor for the stubbornness of the Ukrainians to defend their territory. Although all the civilians have already been transferred to safe locations, there are about a thousand combatants left...

The videos that sweep the Internet to relax or sleep Try watching one of the many videos on Twitch, TikTok, or YouTube in which they grate soap, fill several jars with rice, or bang their fingernails against a plastic surface. If that repetitive image and sound relax you, engage you and even make you feel a pleasant tingling in the back of your neck, it is because the phenomenon that is sweeping the Internet has taken effect: ASMR. They are the acronym in English for 'Autonomous meridian sensory response', an effect that science investigates and that has become an already common 'tool', especially among 'millennials' (born after 80). They use it to sleep, rest, while studying or simply to disconnect. «The brain is dedicated to seeking the sensation of pleasure, happiness... and to fl...