Ancient Mystery

"History is the discovering of the constant and universal principles of human nature" - David Hume

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Isis and Serapis with body of a serpent, between them a Canopus. Greek-Roman period, 332 BCE to 395 AD. Leiden, Museum of Antiquities

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[tinyuglyworld]

Persepolis, the ancient Zoroastrian ceremonial center of the Achaemenid Empire, located in Iran

Scanned from Invitation to World Religions: Oxford University Press Textbook

[ancient-mystery]

Papyrus Fragment with Text from Homer's Odyssey

1st century B.C.

via Getty Museum

[historical-nonfiction]

Pañamarca has impressive ruins from the Moche culture, which flourished on the northwest coast of Peru between 200 CE and 900 CE. Amazingly, many murals in Pañamarca still retain their colors, over 1,000 years after the last painter laid down his brush.  The site was deliberately buried sometime around 750 CE. And in doing so, the Moche unintentionally preserved their art for future archaeologists to discover.

This mural is on one of the pillars of the imaginatively named “Temple of the Painted Pillars.” The figures hold typical Moche objects, including a plate with three purple goblets, a multicolored stirrup-spout bottle, and a feather fan.

[uncleclaudius]

Marble head of Emperor Augustus, Louvre Abu Dhabi.

[odditiesoflife]

Banyan Tree with an attached 16th Century Terracotta Temple, Antpur, West Bengal, India

photo by Laura McPhee

[egypt-museum]

Canopic Jars of Isetemkheb D, Chief of the Harem of Amun-Re

Third Intermediate Period, 21st Dynasty, ca. 1077-943 BC.

Now in the Hurghada Museum. JE 26254

[hildegardavon]

Tethys

A gold medallion featuring a high-relief depiction of Tethys seated on a seahorse amid stylised waves, ca.300/200 BC., 7x6.5 cm, weight 25 gr

Private Collection

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Byzantine manuscripts of Herodotus' Histories

Picture of a page of a byzantine manuscript of Herodotus' Histories with marginal annotations (marginalia).

Source: https://humanities.princeton.edu/event/how-did-byzantines-read-herodotus-the-case-of-marginalia-in-verse/

[moonrockworld]

Kees Scherer - Temple of Nefertari at Abu Simbel, Egypt, 1965-1968

[ancient-mystery]

Julius Caesar: The Ides of March are come.

Soothsayer: Aye, Caesar, but not gone.

- Shakespeare, Julius Caesar, Act III, Scene I

[memories-of-ancients]

Bronze sword, Urnfield Culture, Central Europe, 1000 - 800 BC

from The Worchester Art Museum

[ancientcharm]

From the Gladiators' Barracks in Pompeii 

Photos by Mary Harrsch

[ancientart]

Wall relief of Ramses III and baboons, mortuary temple of Ramses III, Medinet Habu, Theban Necropolis, Egypt.

Photo courtesy & taken by Rémih

[memories-of-ancients]

Bronze sword with ivory hilt, Minoan, 1400-1300 BC

from The Heraklion Archaeological Museum, Crete

[artschoolglasses]

Clay loom weight decorated with an owl, Greek, 5th Century BCE

From the Acropolis Museum