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Lucy | 23 | 🇹🇼

[noragaribotti]

HERCULANEUM-An example of a two-story structure that survived the eruption of Vesuvius in 79 A.D. It consisted of shops and an apartment.

[accent-aigu]

tfw you’re a merchant in pompeii coming to your friend’s house to make a deal and there’s a dog in the atrium

[rumade]

Patchwork quilt floor!

[catadromously]

your tag “sometimes a historian is someone who etches marks on the wall to catalogue your growth” made me clutch my chest and sit down. yes. i’m literally going into a public history grad program next year and you just casually summed up the entire field and why i love it. thank you

here is a gravestone from ancient Athens, a young girl with her favorite pets.

here is a food-sharing scene from the Maya site Calakmul. when they remodeled the building, the people there packed this mural with mud to preserve it.

here is a child’s footprint stamped into clay in Mesopotamia more than 2000 years ago. many of these have been found, and some are inscribed with the children’s names. 

we don’t want to forget each other. that’s history.

[thoodleoo]

[wannacuppatealuv]

Still trying to come to terms with the fact I’ll never be a librarian who can speak a dead language and be recruited by a ruggish but handsome explorer for a quest to lift the curse and save the world

[lustformcgrath]

because of the pandemic travel restrictions?

[brawltogethernow]

Because of the pandemic travel restrictions.

[silks-satins-diamonds-and-pearls]

National Archeological Museum, Athens

*my own photos

[slavicafire]

I don’t dress for men, I dress for ancient growling gods and women

[finelythreadedsky]

for real though the aeneid is a tragedy because aeneas is an actor playing aeneas despite thinking that he’s not really cut out for anything other than minor background roles

[mezzalunanova]

“I cry now, Enkidu, like some crazed woman. I howl. I screech for you because you were the ax upon my belt and the bow in my weak hand; the sword within my sheath, the shield that covered me in battle; my happiest robe, the finest clothes I ever wore, the ones that made me look best in the eyes of the world. That is what you were; that is what you’ll always be. What devil came to take you off from me?”

— Epic of Gilgamesh, translated by Danny P. Jackson (via mareemallory)

[nedlittle]

sappho 191 (tr. anne carson)

[mrkanman]

king minos: get this monster out of my sight!! put it in a labryinth so i never have to look at it again!! gods holy fuck!!!

the minotaur, born like a day ago:

[beeftea78-deactivated20200113]

I am delighted to say that I’ve found one of the funniest lines in Latin. This guy called Columella is writing about agriculture and he’s advising farmers to feed their chickens once in the morning, and then again in the evening to ensure the little beasties actually return to the henhouse so they can be locked away for the night. Since the promise of food makes the chickens return, this will help you keep track of them, he says wisely, nam volatile pecus facile custodiam pastoris decepit - for poultry easily deceive the watch of the man who cares for them.

I’m just so thrilled to learn that even 2000 years ago farmers were sitting around like

[medoisa]

sign in the palace of mycenae which says ‘1 0 generations since our last child eating incident’

[chongoblog]

Picture taken from 1918 during the Spanish Flu

[day-dreamersclub]

i pray that aug, sep, oct, nov and dec are all months full of growth, blessings, productivity, new doors open and opportunities

[hurrempilled]

Politics? In my chariot racing? It's more likely than you think.