Carmín, Carmen.

He/They - XXII - Brujo - Poet - Storyteller - Interested in all things language, art and history…okay okay, gay shit too!

[mysteriousartcentury]

John Collier (1850-1934), The Garden of Armida, 1914, oil on canvas, 262 x 178 cm. In a private collection.

[zegalba]

2,000 year old Olive tree in Greece

[smsomah]

Purépecha; Mexico, 1897. Culhuacán Collection

[cozycoffeereads]

Ancient Roman Mosiacs

[luminote]

Unfinished.

[metamorphesque]

"Perspectives", Hovhannes Grigoryan (translated by Tathev Simonyan)

[tinagodiva]

Braunfels Castle, Germany 🇩🇪

Braunfels Castle is a stunning hilltop castle located in the state of Hesse, Germany. Overlooking the town of Braunfels, it is one of Germany’s most picturesque castles, known for its fairy-tale towers and medieval atmosphere.

The castle was originally built in the 13th century by the Counts of Solms to protect important trade routes. Over the centuries, it was expanded and transformed from a medieval fortress into a grand residence.

In the 17th century, parts of the castle were damaged during the Thirty Years’ War. Later restorations, especially in the 19th century, gave Braunfels Castle its romantic Neo-Gothic appearance.

Today, the castle remains associated with the House of Solms-Braunfels and is a popular tourist attraction. Visitors come to admire its historic rooms, armory, collections of art and weapons, and panoramic views of the surrounding countryside. 🇩🇪🏰

[justaburnedoutskank]

Hey : )

Fuck you and your sick little delusions, that’s MY agua fresca

[periodinteriors]

Martin Drolling (French, 1752-1817), La fille de l'artiste copiant un dessin (The Artist's Daughter copying a Drawing), oil, undated.

[caintooth]

you have to love trans women more than you hate transmisogyny, you have to love jews more than you hate antisemitism, you have to love Black people more than you hate white supremacy, you have to love Indigenous people more than you hate colonialism, you have to love the disabled and mentally ill more than you hate ableism, you have to love. you have to love.

[along-the-silkroad]

Mother Goddess from Çatalhöyük, neolithicum, c. 6000-5500 BCE. Museum of Anatolian Civilizations, Ankara, Türkiye.

Çatalhöyük (English: Chatalhoyuk /ˌtʃɑːtɑːlˈhuːjʊk/ cha-tal-HOO-yuhk; Turkish: [tʃaˈtaɫhœjyc]; also spelled Çatal Höyük or Çatal Hüyük; from Turkish çatal “fork” and höyük “mound”) is a large tell—an artificial mound created by successive layers of human habitation—representing a major Neolithic and Chalcolithic proto-city in southern Anatolia. The site was occupied from around 7500 to 5600 BCE and reached its peak around 7000 BCE. In July 2012, it was designated a UNESCO World Heritage Site.

Located on the Konya Plain in modern-day Turkey, southeast of the city of Konya (ancient Iconium) and about 140 km (87 mi) from the twin-peaked volcano Mount Hasan, Çatalhöyük comprises two main settlement mounds. The eastern mound—rising about 20 m (66 ft) above the plain during its final Neolithic phase—was the principal habitation area, while a smaller mound lies to the west and a later Byzantine settlement stands a few hundred meters to the east. The prehistoric sites were abandoned before the Bronze Age. In ancient times, a branch of the Çarşamba River flowed between the two mounds, and the settlement was built on fertile alluvial clay favorable for early agriculture. Today, the nearest major river is the Euphrates.

[blueiscoool]

2500-Year-Old Italian Necropolis Reveals Children Buried With Warrior Belts

Unusual burials of children with bronze warrior belts have been discovered in a necropolis near the town of Pontecagnano Faiano, outside Salerno in southwestern Italy.

The burials date to the 4th and 3rd centuries BC, when the Samnite people occupied this part of what is now the Campania region of Italy. Located a few miles from the coast along ancient routes connecting the Tyrrhenian Sea to the Apennines, the settlement that would become Pontecagnano was established in the 9th century BC.

Plans for urban development in Pontecagnano Faiano prompted a programme of preventive archaeological excavation. The site, formerly occupied by a tobacco factory, lies within the southern necropolis of the ancient town.

Excavations uncovered 34 burials in total, 15 of which belonged to children aged between two and ten years at the time of death. The graves are arranged in clusters, likely reflecting family groups.

Most of the burials consisted of simple earthen pits covered with roof tiles set against one another in a pitched formation. Only three graves differed from this pattern: stone box tombs constructed from large blocks—two made of travertine and one of tufa. These materials were costly and suggest that the individuals buried in them belonged to wealthier families or held a higher social status.

The graves were furnished with typical Samnite grave goods, including spears and javelins in male burials and rings and fibulae in female burials. Pottery vessels were also common, consisting of small sets used for funerary offerings and ritual banquets, as well as containers for perfumes and ointments used in burial ceremonies.

The bronze belts—usually found in the graves of adult men—were particularly unusual. They appeared only in the graves of two children aged between five and ten. These were not ordinary belts but broad, decorated bronze bands used to secure the tunic worn by adult men. They were unmistakable symbols of warrior identity and social status.

Archaeologists suggest that the belts may have been placed in the children’s graves to symbolise a warrior lineage passed down to the next generation even after death—a symbolic rite of passage into adulthood that could not be achieved in life. Another possibility is that the belts served a protective role, signalling the child’s membership in a noble warrior family to the feared denizens of the underworld.

By Mark Milligan.

[fiercerthanyou]

Tibetan carved kapala !

Courtesy: Klemens (Asian Art Forum)

[henk-heijmans]

A natural wave is formed on Lake Michigan when the riptide meets the incoming tide and explodes upward, 2014 - by Michael Bernhardt, American

[rounni]

[memories-of-ancients]

Feline stirrup spout bottle, Cupisnique culture, Peru, 1200-800 BC

from The MET

[luna-azzurra]

The most interesting question you can ask about any character is not what do they want. it's what do they believe they deserve. because those two things are almost never the same and the gap between them is where your entire story lives. a person can want love completely and believe they don't deserve it and that belief will destroy every good thing that comes toward them in ways they won't even notice they're doing. write the gap. the gap is the character.