[nemfrog]

Mayan stone lintel at Menche. Elephants and ethnologists. 1924.

Internet Archive

[memories-of-ancients]

Gold pectoral, Chimu culture, Peru, dated 1300-1532

from The Museo Larco, Lima, Peru

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[theoutcastrogue]

Yatagans

19th century, Epirus, gold-plated silver, 70.5 cm [x]

late 18th-early 19th century, silver, 69 cm [x]

1823, silver, 72 cm [x]

19th century, Crete, silver, 74 cm [x]

19th century, silver and coral, 88.5 cm [x]

19th century, Peloponnese, silver, gold, and and niello, inscription "ΓΕΩΡΓΙC ΔΗΜΗΤΡΙC ΓΟΥΡΓΑΡΙΣ", 49 cm [x]

1807, Crete, silver, 79 cm [x]

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[armthearmour]

A fantastically embossed and gilt "Hungarian Shield", attributed to Matthäus Frauenpreis,

Height: 24.1 in/61.1 cm

Width: 12.5 in/31.7 cm

Augsburg, Germany, ca. 1540-1545, housed at the Real Armería, Madrid.

[parsabad]

Gonbad-e qafarieh/ Maragheh/ Iran

Photos: sadeq miri

[minahwa-deactivated20230726]

Elrond and Thorondor

[pmamtraveller]

Fish-shaped interlocking paving stones.

[starshadeemilyart]

Eärwen and Anairë 💜🩷❤️🧡

[julijbee]

the rider bore them all across the sea. when they grew tired they would fly close to the waves- that they would cool their feet. and soon enough they could make out a silver light, growing brighter along the horizon.

[baebeylik]

Folio from a Mu'nis al-ahrar fi daqa'iq al-ash'ar (Free Man's Guide to the Subtleties of Poetry) by Badr al-Din Jajarmi (d. 1287); The Zodiac constellation of Pisces, the moon, and two registers of birds. Iran, Ilkhanid period, 1341.

The Smithsonian Freer Gallery of Art.

[nemfrog]

"Root systems of shrubs and herbs of the forest floor." The ecological relations of roots. 1919.

Internet Archive

[darknnesmi]

[fluentisonus]

they should have hired this guy at an animation studio to design an evil kingfisher character

[androgynouscoffeeruins]

An Elros and Elrond moment because I love them both sm <3

Elros is dressed in what I've designed to be more Noldor adjacent clothing (which will turn into Numenorean clothing) and Elrond is dressed in sindarin clothing, specifically what I've designed to be Doriathrin clothing!

[pmamtraveller]

Photography by Zahra Ghasedi