Ancient Dildo Excavated in Sweden?

“Your mind and my mind wanders away to make this interpretation about what it looks like — for you and me, it signals this erected-penis-like shape. But if that’s the way the Stone Age people thought about it, I can’t say.”

Mysterious Tunnels and Underground Societies

The word grotesque comes from the same Latin root as “grotto”, meaning a small cave or hollow. The expression comes from the unearthing and rediscovery of ancient Roman decorations in caves and buried sites in the 15th century. These “caves” were in fact rooms and corridors of the Domus Aurea, the unfinished palace complex started by Nero after the great fire from 64 AD.

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Lost Charlie Chaplin Film Discovered

A scene from the 1914 Charlie Chaplin film A Thief Catcher

A scene from the 1914 Charlie Chaplin film, A Thief Catcher Photo: AP

The comedy called A Thief Catcher was made in 1914 and was missing for so many years that Chaplin’s appearance in it as a buffoon policeman had been forgotten.

The 10-minute movie was discovered by the American cinema historian, Paul Gierucki, who bought a can of old film marked “Keystone” at an antiques sale in Michigan.