[ancientorigins]

700 year old home in Iran

[religiousextremist]

The reindeer skin vestments and mammoth bone mitre of Metropolitan Nestor Anisimov of Kamchatka, Russia.

These vestments were made of northern reindeer fur. Take a close look at the pectoral cross and notice how the the cross and the chains are also of reindeerskin.

[archiveroll]

shoutout to the >2,000 year-old 120ft-long Nazca Lines cat geoglyph

[lamignonette]

[postcard-from-the-past]

Door of a Marabout in Algeria

French vintage postcard

[t0genesis]

Trumpet pendant made with antique bell and bits

[smsomah]

Tuareg; Algeria, 1975. Scanned from the book Le Désert des Kel Ahaggar; 1982; Henri Bancaud

[smsomah]

Tuareg; Hoggar, Algeria, 1975. Henri Bancaud

[gorskivijenac]

Greek shepherds, Greece, 1960. Harrison Forman

[sibirsibir]

petroglyph from the Ulytau mountains

[archivearchangelica]

Pots and pans, 2006

[irisharchaeology]

A woman and girl walk through a honeycomb of stone walls to get water from a pump, Inishmaan, the Aran Islands, 1971   

 Photo by Winfield Parks for National Geographic  

[tridentandtales]

Group of ancient Greek perfume bottles

610 - 550 BCE

British Museum 1860,0404.38

[smsomah]

Cyprus. 1878. Thomson, John, (14 June 1837 - 1921)

[baebeylik]

Xerxes Cuneiform Van. Achaemenid. Lake Van, modern day Türkiye. 486–465 BCE.

Photograph by Bjørn Christian Tørrissen.

[tinyuglyworld]

Standing bronze bull statue from Anatolia - approximately 3000 BCE

[smsomah]

Oualata, Mauritania. Scanned from the book Sahara; Jean-Loïc Le Quellec; 2004; photos by Tiziana & Gianni Baldizzone