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Recent research on early Bronze Age burials in Luxembourg and Britain has uncovered genetic evidence of familial relationships within prehistoric communities, indicating that children were buried with their biological mothers or close relatives. This study, highlighting the transition from collective to individual burial customs among Bell Beaker communities, emphasizes the significance of kinship in their burial practices and suggests a patrilineal descent system. The image above depicts the skeletal remains of an adult…

A former deputy registrar of the University of Leicester is suing the makers of the 2022 film The Lost King, claiming it presented him as “dismissive, patronising and misogynistic”.Richard Taylor was played by Lee Ingleby in the film, which is about the discovery of the remains of Richard III in a car park in Leicester in 2012, more than 500 years after his death. At a hearing in London on Thursday, Taylor’s barrister, William Bennett KC, asserted that his client was portrayed as “devious”, “weasel-like” and a “suited…

Whether your Airtel SIM is lost or stolen, taking immediate action is crucial to prevent any misuse of your mobile number. In this article, we will be going through several methods on how to block lost or stolen Airtel SIM using home or non-home numbers, talking to customer care through the Airtel Thanks app, sending an email, or visiting a nearby Airtel store.Block Airtel SIM using non-Airtel mobile numberHere’s how to block a lost or stolen Airtel SIM using a Jio, Vi or BSNL mobile number.Step 1: Open the Dialer of any…

These days, if you’re an epic sci-fi story looking to be told, there’s only one destination: Apple TV+. From popular novels like Foundation and Silo to originals like For All Mankind and Severance, the streamer is a haven for weird, bold sci-fi. Which is why it feels like the perfect, natural home for William Gibson’s Neuromancer.Prepping the Sandworm Scenes in Dune: Part TwoThe landmark 1984 cyberpunk novel has been on Hollywood’s wishlist for decades, with multiple filmmakers attempting to bring it to the big screen.…

Get our free weekly email for all the latest cinematic news from our film critic Clarisse LoughreyGet our The Life Cinematic email for freeReacher actor Alan Ritchson has revealed he missed out on starring as a Marvel superhero because he didn’t take the audition “seriously”. Ritchson, who is currently starring in the TV adaptation of the Child’s novel by Lee Child, said he has auditioned for several superhero roles throughout his career. The former Smallville actor revealed he auditioned for the role of Thor – the hammer…

Get our free weekly email for all the latest cinematic news from our film critic Clarisse LoughreyGet our The Life Cinematic email for freeThere’s surely no feeling in the world quite like winning an Oscar– that heady, unfiltered hit of professional validation that so many actors desperately crave. But what of those who aren’t so lucky? For every Oscar winner, there must be a handful of losers, deserving or sometimes undeserving also-rans whose work was collectively deemed to have fallen short.While actors are often…

Tattered Cover lost $340,000 last month and expects to remain in the red this month, a fiscal shortcoming that arrives as the bookseller is trying to chart a course to profitability. The bankrupt company took in $630,000 in January — more than it had projected it would — but spent $970,000, according to a monthly update it filed Feb. 21 with the U.S. Bankruptcy Court. That same report projects a $110,000 loss for February. “This is a seasonal business,” CEO Brad Dempsey said in an interview Monday. “Our sales essentially…

It’s only 17 seconds long, and sounds a bit like 80s-era Genesis playing at the bottom of a swimming pool. But this snippet of bouncy yet sonically degraded pop has become one of the biggest and most enduring musical mysteries on the internet.The clip was uploaded in 2021 by someone called Carl92, who wanted to know if anyone could identify it. “I don’t remember its origin,” he wrote on a site called WatZatSong, saying he found it “between a bunch of very old files in a DVD backup … it sounds somewhat familiar to me.” But…

“One never… asks is it a novel,” wrote John Cheever in 1977. “One asks is it interesting.” Definitely not a novel – whatever its publishers say – but definitely very interesting is Jack Hilton’s 1935 book Caliban Shrieks, equal parts autobiography, political screed and artful rant, now reissued in hardback by Vintage Classics and lauded last week as a lost literary masterpiece in the New Yorker.Channelling Shakespeare’s monstrous Caliban (“the red plague rid you for learning me your language”), Hilton’s narrator uses…

I’m talking about music festivals. I can’t abide them and never could, even when I was a fresh-faced goth, with crimped hair, a tummy full of snakebite, and a sweet and trusting heart.Still, noting that more British festivals have been forced to postpone or cancel, I feel an anxious clawing, not least because this slide has been going on for a while. In 2023, the Association of Independent Festivals (AIF) reported that one in six UK festivals had ended since the pandemic, numbers falling from 600 to under 500 (in 2019,…