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✿ Jess ✿ I like space, dogs and puns ✿ multi-fandom ✿ hockey sideblog: @tom-wilson

[vintagehomecollection]

Spanish and Italian marbles welcome guests to the eighteenth-century palace of the Viscount of Miralcazar.

Designing with Tile, Stone & Brick, 1995

[sculien]

Touché.

CASTLE 6.04

[gimmejimmy64]

80s Robert 🔥🥰

[1966mccartney]

Paul McCartney and George Harrison, testing out the sitar, 1966

[theglitterdome]

Musicians Stevie Nicks and George Harrison in Acapulco in 1977.

[graciehart]

the 12th precinct being the OTPrecinct [3/?] ⤷ 2.07 — “Famous Last Words”

[ullathynell]

Details from my art book Woodlands. Expanded 2026 edition of Woodlands launches on Kickstarter this summer!

[atomic-chronoscaph]

Sledgehammer - Peter Gabriel (1986)

[wholeheartedsuggestions]

let yourself be tired and rest. accept when you’ve reached your limit and recharge.

[wholeheartedsuggestions]

i promise that the people worth having in your life will not make you feel like you have to shrink yourself to be likable

[rudjedet]

Controversial Truths About Ancient Egypt Masterpost

The pyramids were built by contemporary workers who received wages and were fed and taken care of during construction

The Dendera “lightbulb” is a representation of the creation myth and has nothing to do with electricity

We didn’t find “““copper wiring””” in the great pyramid either

Hatshepsut wasn’t transgender

The gods didn’t actually have animal heads

Hieroglyphs aren’t mysteriously magical; they’re just a language (seriously we have shopping lists and work rosters and even ancient erotica)

The ancient Egyptian ethnicity wasn’t homogeneous

Noses (and ears, and arms) broke off statues and reliefs for a variety of reasons, none of which are “there is a widespread archaeological conspiracy to hide the Egyptian ethnicity”

[thatlittleegyptologist]

The carvings at Abydos aren’t modern machines but recarvings over old carvings. Sure they look like them but if you can read hieroglyphs and know that Ramesses II will even usurp the carvings of his own father just to be a little shit

[rudjedet]

‘No soot on the ceilings and walls of the Dendera temple!’ is actually because of extensive restoration works and not because Egyptians were in on shit like Baghdad “batteries”

While the Egyptians were fine-ass astronomers they didn’t align any of their enormous and/or important buildings to modern star constellations, because constellations look very different now than they did ~5000 years ago 

The pyramid is the simplest, sturdiest shape with which to build and many different cultures discovered this in their own time. There were never any weird fish humans/aliens involved

[rudjedet]

The sphinx of Gizah is only an approximate 5000 years old; the 10,000 year/rain erosion nonsense is proven hokum

Speaking of that particular sphinx, the Napoleonic expedition is not responsible for its missing nose

Akhenaten was not a “heretic” by contemporary standards

Ramses II appropriated a lot of his predecessors’ buildings/reliefs and isn’t really deserving of the epithet “the Great”

The Battle of Kadesh ended in a stalemate (twice)

[rudjedet]

While they had feline deities throughout their history, Egyptians didn’t actually worship cats themselves. This was a later Greek/Ptolemaeic addition

It was not, in fact, practice to shave off eyebrows after cats died; Herodotus lied about that

Herodotus lied about a lot of things and many misconceptions about ancient Egypt can be traced back to his Greek ass

[rudjedet]

I can’t believe I forgot my favourite Hill to Die On

Seth was not the god of “evil”, and despite his chaos providing a foil to order, he wasn’t completely villified until very late in Egyptian history, when he became associated with despised foreign enemies

[rudjedet]

Hats off to the few of you who’re reblogging this with tags saying you’re going to check my claims later. You make me not entirely despair of this hellhole.

Here are some vetted Egyptological books/sources (that are by and large appropriate for a lay-audience) you can find most, if not all of the above:

Lehner, M., The Complete Pyramids

Wilkinson, R. H., The Complete Temples of Ancient Egypt

Hornung, E., The One and the Many: Conceptions of God in Ancient Egypt

Dunand, F. & Zivie-Coche, C., Gods and Men in Egypt

Kemp, B., Ancient Egypt: Anatomy of a Civilization

Bard, K., An Introduction to the Archaeology of Ancient Egypt

Stevenson Smith, W., The Art and Architecture of Ancient Egypt

Kitchen, K. A., The Life and Times of Ramesses II, King of Egypt

Sweeney, D., Sex and Gender (in Ancient Egypt)

McDowell, A. G., Village Life in Ancient Egypt:  Laundry Lists and Love Songs

Te Velde, H., Seth, God of Confusion 

[rudjedet]

Guys do me a solid and reblog this version instead of continuously asking for sources on the other versions thanks

[chronic-backpain]

Excuse me please post ancient erotica link

[rudjedet]

hey it’s not my fault people keep reblogging the version without it!

[whoknowswherethetimegoes]

Led Zeppelin at the Chateau Marmont, Hollywood, by Jay Thompson, 1969.

[lost-highwayy]

Live Aid, behind the scenes

[kosmogrl]

[igotyoubabeheffron]

"Here Perco, just finished it." "Yeah? Any sex in it?" "Ain't that kinda book."

Band of Brothers (2001) | A Tree Grows in Brooklyn (1943)

Books in HBO War, Part I

[allthingseurope]

Robin Hood's Bay, England

[whoknowswherethetimegoes]

Led Zeppelin, 1968.