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  Ancient Chinese porn served as sex education and was even used for fire prevention Pornographic paintings in China were used for millennia as pictorial guides for young men and women on what to do on their wedding nights and thereafter. With coitus traditionally associated with rain that nourishes the fertile earth, paintings were also uses as talismans against fire An erotic Chinese engraving. Pornographic paintings were used for thousands of years in China for sex education. Photo: Getty Images A couple of weeks ago, a male teacher in a girls’ school in Kwun Tong, Hong Kong, resigned after he was caught watching a pornographic video in class. He was supposed to be supervising his students as they were doing class work, but instead he was watching an adult video, which, unfortunately, was projected onto an electronic screen by accident and seen by his teenaged charges. The school has reported the incident to the Education Bureau and the police. The teacher’s actions were totally...

  THE BEST BOARD GAMES OF THE  ANCIENT WORLD Thousands of years before Monopoly, people were playing games like Senet, Patolli and Chaturanga BY MEILAN SOLLY A Ludus Latrunculorum board found in Roman Britain (English Heritage / The Trustees of the Corbridge Excavation Fund) SMITHSONIANMAG.COM | Feb. 6, 2020, 7 a.m. Long before Settlers of Catan, Scrabble and Risk won legions of fans, actual Roman legions passed the time by playing Ludus Latrunculorum, a strategic showdown whose Latin name translates loosely to “Game of Mercenaries.” In northwest Europe, meanwhile, the Viking game Hnefatafl popped up in such far-flung locales as Scotland, Norway and Iceland. Farther south, the ancient Egyptian games of Senet and Mehen dominated. To the east in India, Chaturanga emerged as a precursor to modern chess. And 5,000 years ago, in what is now southeast Turkey, a group of Bronze Age humans created an elaborate set of sculpted stones hailed as the world’s oldest gaming pieces upon thei...

SALIYA-ASOKKAMAALA ANCIENT LOVE HISTORY இது “சாலியா – அசோக்கமாலா” சிங்களத்துக்கு காதல் ! இலங்கையில் நடந்த காதல் கதைகளில், சரித்திர வரலாறு படைத்த கதை “சாலியா – அசோக்கமாலா” காதல் கதை. அக்கதை மக்களின் கவனத்தை ஈர்த்ததுக்கு முக்கிய காரணம், சாலியா சிங்களவர்கள் பெருமையாக பேசும் இலங்கை முழுவதையும் கிமு 161 -137 காலத்தில் ஆண்ட துட்டகைமுனு மன்னனின் மகன் ஆவான். அதோடு பட்டத்துக்கு இளவரசன். அசோக்கமாலா கீழ்சாதியான சண்டாளக் குலத்தைச் சேர்நதவள், ஆனால் அழகி. சுமார் இரண்டாயிரம் ஆண்டுகளுக்கு முன்னரே சிங்கள இனத்திடையே சாதிவேற்றுமை இருந்து வந்ததுக்கு இக்கதை ஒரு ஆதாரம். அனுராதபுரத்தில் இக்காதலர்களை கல்லில் சிலை வடிவில் அமைத்து, அனுராதபுரத்தில் உள்ள “இசுருமுனிய” விகாரவுக்கு போக முன், வாசலில் “இசுருமுனிய காதலர்கள்” என்ற பெயரில் செதுக்கி வைத்திருக்கிறார்கள். சிங்களவர்கள் போற்றும் “மகாவம்சம்” என்ற இலங்கையின் வரலாற்று நூலில் இக்காதல் கதை விபரமாக எழுதப்பட்டுள்ளது ஒருநாள், இளவரசன் சாலியா, அசோக மரக்காட்டில் உலாவும் போது ஒரு இனிமையான பெண்குரலில் பாட்டோன்றைக் கேட்டான். அந்தக் குரலால் கவரப்பட்ட ...

VIJAYA-KUWENI LOVE  IN SRILANKA ANCIENT HISTORY VIJAYA: THE FIRST KING OF SRI LANKA Around 2500 years ago, the land of Lala in North India was ruled by a king named Sinhabahu and his wife, Sinhavalli. They had many children, the eldest of whom was named Vijaya.  Vijaya was an extremely mischievous and wilful young man. His father pardoned him many times for his unlawful acts, but finally the King got tired of his behaviour and put him on a boat with 700 of his companions and sent the boat adrift on the ocean.  For many days the boat sailed, before finally reaching Sri Lanka.  Even before Vijaya landed in Lanka, the island was inhabited by tribes called the Yakkas and Nagas. Kuveni was a Yakka queen who initially tried to kill Vijaya and his followers. Failing to do so, she convinced him into accepting her as his queen.  Kuveni helped Vijaya defeat the Yakkas and become ruler of the entire island. Vijaya, however, was not happy wit...