Archaeology +

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[theancientwayoflife]

~ Conch-Shell Trumpet.

Date: A.D. 300-550

Culture: Maya

Place of origin: Guatemala

Medium: Conch shell, hematite

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The baptistry basin of the Byzantine Basilica of St Vitalis in ancient Sufetula, today known as Sbeitla in Tunisia. 5th-6th century CE

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Gator havin’ a swim

[thesilicontribesman]

Prehistoric Tools and Axeheads, Oriel Môn, Llangefni, Anglesey, Wales.

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[illyadarling]

Minnesota State Fair, 1973

[artist-canaletto]

Piazza San Marco, Looking East, 1760, Canaletto

Medium: oil,canvas

https://www.wikiart.org/en/canaletto/piazza-san-marco-looking-east

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Tapestry with a Shepherd Milking a Goat, Byzantine, late 5th–6th century, Saint Louis Art Museum: Ancient Art

https://www.slam.org/collection/objects/34107/

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Hanoi on a cold day. Credit to Nguyen Thanh Vu.

[urbexhub]

𝐓𝐡𝐞 𝐂𝐨𝐦𝐛𝐢𝐧𝐞 𝐇𝐚𝐫𝐯𝐞𝐬𝐭𝐞𝐫 𝐆𝐫𝐚𝐯𝐞𝐲𝐚𝐫𝐝 Just outside Alnwick in England lies the UK’s largest combine harvester graveyard. Over 350 combine harvesters are dotted all over this 700 acre site ready to be stripped for parts or refurbished and sent across the globe. Full report here: https://urbexhub.com/combine-harvester-graveyard/

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old cemetery in borač, serbia

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String of 7 fly amulets, ca. 1600–1070 B.C., Metropolitan Museum of Art: Egyptian Art

Gift of Joan B. Robbins, 2012 Size: each about 1.2 cm in length Medium: Gold

https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/591147

[worldhistoryfacts]

A sword guard featuring two dragons, carved from black jade, from Timurid Central Asia (1300s-1500s). The Timurids, descendants of a group of Mongols that had fought under Genghis Khan, ruled over parts of modern-day Iran, Iraq, Turkey, Pakistan, and Afghanistan.

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Agios Nikolaos Molos Church in Skyros, Greece (curved out from a rock)

source : https://www.hellenic-travelgroup.com

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This well-preserved mummy is in the Louvre museum, and it belongs to a man who lived during the Ptolemaic period (305-30 BC). It belongs to a grown man, rich enough to be mummified at his death so carefully. Carefully wrapped in strips of linen, especially the wrapping of the face is sophisticated. It has a concentric square design, different from the usual. There is also a mask that covers the head, a wide necklace on the chest, an apron on the legs.

[rhyslahey]

Etruscan black-figure wolfman by the so-called Tityos painter (late 6th c. BC). Perhaps a depiction of the Etruscan god Calu, a cthonic entity — perhaps related to the Greek Hero of Temesa.

(Note the “armband”, poss. tattoo, for all Scott McCall fans)

See D. Ogden, 2020, The Werewolf in the Ancient World (Oxford University Press).

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