“For Nothing Is Evil In The Beginning"

Anthony, 29, California, USA. I enjoy history, art, reading, music, movies, astronomy, the paranormal, macabre and nature.

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when the romans made bird mosaics that just look like :>. thats good stuff

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The wolf shot by François Antoine on September 21, 1765, displayed at the court of Louis XV.

Representation of the Beast of Gévaudan which has wreaked so much havoc in this country and in Auvergne, which was killed on September 20 by Mr. Antoine, Chevalier de Saint Louis, the only harquebus holder of his Majesty and presented on the 1st October to Roy and the royal family by M. Antoine de Beauterne fils. To keep this animal in its natural state, it has been dissected, embalmed and attached to a board as shown here. In Paris, at Mondhare, rue Saint-Jacques. Engraving extracted from the fictitious collection of parts relating to the beast of Gévaudan, formed by Gervais-François Magné de Marolles.

[the-evil-clergyman]

Illustrations from The Fairy Book by Warwick Goble (1913)

[frodo-sam]

Bilbo once told me his part in this tale would end… that each of us must come and go in the telling. Bilbo’s story was now over. There would be no more journeys for him… save one. My dear Sam. You cannot always be torn in two. You will have to be one and whole for many years. You have so much to enjoy and to be and to do. Your part in the story will go on.

[thesilicontribesman]

The York Helmet, 8th Century CE, The Yorkshire Museum, York

[the-evil-clergyman]

Pandora by Lawrence Alma-Tadema (1881)

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The Disembarkation of Achilles in Troy.   Bon Thomas Henry. French. 1766-1836. oil on canvas.

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Sulpher lake “Kawah Putih” // Bandung, Indonesia

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Aurora on Jupiter via NASA Goddard Space Flight Center

[worldhistoryfacts]

A rhinoceros hangs out on an island in the Nile, part of a larger mosaic of the Nile's flooding at the Sanctuary of Fortuna Primigenia at Praeneste, near Rome, ca. 100 BCE. The animal is helpfully labeled "PINOKEPOC" in Greek. Now quite rare, rhinos used to be found throughout Africa and Eurasia; they also appear on some Roman coins.

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Temple of Apollo

Didyma, Turkey

ca. 300 BCE - ca. 200 CE 

[steliosagapitos]

      ~ Aerial view of the Temple of Apollo at Didyma, Asia Minor Didyma (ancient Greek: Δίδυμα) was an ancient Greek sanctuary on the coast of Ionia in the domain of the famous city of Miletus. Apollo was the main deity of the sanctuary of Didyma, also called Didymaion. But it was home to both of the temples dedicated to the twins Apollo and Artemis. Other deities were also honoured within the sanctuary. The Didymaion was well renowned in antiquity because of its famed oracle. This oracle of Apollo was situated within what was, and is, the one of the world’s greatest temples to Apollo. The remains of this Hellenistic temple belong to the best preserved temples of classical antiquity. Besides this temple other buildings existed within the sanctuary which have been rediscovered recently; a Greek theatre and the foundations of the above-mentioned Hellenistic temple of Artemis, to name but two. ~

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Taughannock Falls, NY [OC] [3594x5393] - Author: ThomasThuhTrain on Reddit

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AI is deciphering a 2,000-year-old 'lost book' describing life after Alexander the Great

A 2,000-year-old “lost book” discussing the dynasties that succeeded Alexander the Great may finally be deciphered nearly two millennia after the text was partially destroyed in the eruption of Mount Vesuvius in A.D. 79 and, centuries later, handed off to Napoleon Bonaparte.

The reason for the breakthrough? Researchers are using machine learning, a branch of artificial intelligence, to discern the faint ink on the rolled-up papyrus scroll.

“It’s probably a lost work,” Richard Janko, the Gerald F. Else distinguished university professor of classical studies at the University of Michigan, said during a presentation at the joint annual meeting of the Archaeological Institute of America and the Society for Classical Studies, held in New Orleans last month. The research is not yet published in a peer-reviewed journal.

Only small parts of the heavily damaged text can be read right now. “It contains the names of a number of Macedonian dynasts and generals of Alexander,” Janko said, noting that it also includes “several mentions of Alexander himself.” Read more.

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Chinese ambassadors (on the left) carry bundles of silk and a collection of silkworm cocoons, alongside Turkish ambassadors (with long hair) on the right. These are part of the Afrasiab murals, which were created in Samarkand (now in Uzbekistan) in the 600s CE. These murals are one of the few remaining examples of the artwork of the region, which at the time was a major trade hub along the Silk Roads.

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[thesilicontribesman]

Prehistoric Tool Selection, The Yorkshire Museum, York

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