Art From Human Beans @elfrings - Tumblr Blog

bijoux-et-mineraux

Fluorite - Strzegom, Strzegom-Sobótka Massif, Lower Silesia, Poland

clawmarks

Trachomedusae - Ernst Haeckel - 1904 - via LOC

stuckinapril

happy if you have scholarly inclinations there is usually something wrong with your sexuality july

theancientwayoflife

~ Necklace with Uninscribed Scarab.

Place of origin: Abydos, Egypt

Date: ca. 1938-1875 B.C.

Period: Middle Kingdom, 12th Dynasty

Medium: Amethyst, feldspar

ancientjewels

Silver Roman fibula depicting a reclining leopard, c. 2nd-3rd centuries CE. From Christie’s auctions

petitworld

Akaroa, South Island, New Zealand

pommegf

sights on the southwest coastal path, Cornwall.

artschoolglasses

Morgan Casket, Italian, 11th-12th Century

From the Met Museum

ontologicalevil

The trick is to be more curious than you're scared.

ontologicalevil

:-) @kyschr

thylacine-dreams

The Madrid thylacine taxidermy has a very gentle, natural expression. It looks like a great specimen – I don’t think it really has any bad/unflattering angles.

Via MNCN on Twitter.

fluentisonus

do you ever remember the note the scribe left at the end of catullus manuscript G and want to burst into tears

fluentisonus

colophon from manuscript G (36 recto), trans. oakley

gnosissy

Kunstformen der Natur (1904), plate 1: Phaeodaria, Ernest Haeckel. (wikimedia)

darkelfchicksick

big news for people who are me

Archaeologists uncovered a 1,000-year-old Viking textile production center near Aarhus, revealing large-scale cloth making and trade.

The site sits near Søften in eastern Jutland, about 10 kilometers north of modern Aarhus. Excavations by the Moesgaard Museum show a planned production area instead of a normal farming village. The settlement covered at least 100,000 square meters. Most of the work focused on making textiles, though other forms of handwork also took place there.

Researchers found an area where flax was prepared before workers turned the plant into linen. They also uncovered 82 pit houses, small sunken buildings linked with Viking workshops. Many held spindle whorls and loom weights, showing cloth production took place on a large scale.