Smoke and Adventure

Millennial. I have a degree in history. I wanted to major in Archeology, but my dad talked me out of it. #traumadump

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Egyptian "Hounds and Jackals"-game board

The board features 58 holes (29 on each side), used for placing game pieces (either hounds or jackals). Some of these holes have hieroglyphs next to them, such as 𓄤 nfr - good and 𓍶 šn - protection, with the latter being the goal and lines connecting them. It is thought that the game would be played like Chutes and Ladders today, with two players moving their pieces according to the rolled number to reach the end.

Late period, Dynasty 26, 664 - 525 BCE

Louvre N 3043

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Found a little pond while following a deer trail. Not shown: the hundred or so dragonflies flitting around.

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P E T R A

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14,000 years ago in the Spanish Las Monedas Cave, Ice Age children left their own mark

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I bought an Aztec Death Whistle because in needed to get free shipping and my husband wasn’t present to stop me.

It is currently very hazy here because of the wildfires. My neighborhood looks like Silent Hill.

Should I hide in the woods and blow my Aztec Death Whistle?

Yes. Become a local cryptid

No. Be a responsible adult

Voting ended onJul 19

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Sardinia's sacred Neolithic 'fairy houses'

Throughout Sardinia, these newly Unesco-inscribed stone necropolises tell the story of the island's pre-Roman funerary customs. But for loca

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The First Egyptologist

Met Pronce Khaemwaset, fourth son of Ramesses II. He lived in the 12th century BCE and was a priest of Ptah, the god of sculptors and craftsman.

During a tour of Memphis and Saqqara he noticed the temples and pyramids had begun to decay. Naturally, he began studying, documenting, and restoring them.

He also became the first pulp hero. A series of stories dating to the Hellenistic period describe Indiana Jones style adventures of Setne Khamwas.

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Hedgehog-shaped jar, Neolithic period (3500-3000 BCE)

Courtesy Alain Truong

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I feel you, Neolithic hedgehog. I feel you.

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Women of the Bronze Age

Akrotiri, Thera, Greece

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Medieval badge displaying three phalli bearing a crowned vulva in a procession, 1375-1450

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Fun fact!

I learned about these in our hyper specific art history lesson! For those too lazy to read the article, these are medieval pilgrims badges - youd presumably get them in important places to mark your journey. There was of course, some serious ones depicting saints and such, but as humanity goes, there were also silly ones. This is just the medieval equivalent of a stupid tourist mug or magnet.

Our professor showed us one with small 4-legged dicks grazing on a peaceful hillside. They looked whimsical ngl. Theres also one depicting a really big walking vulva. With a walking stick and all, very fancy, good for her.

I know that if I was a medieval pilgrim and went all the way to bumfuck nowhere to kiss the withering foot of a saint in a big gold foot shaped box, Id wanna walk away with a badge of a herd of dicks grazing on a field, that just sounds like ungodly amount of medieval rizz.

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https://www.etsy.com/listing/996531810/shameless-medieval-pilgrim-badge

I have found a number of Etsy stores that sell reproductions of this and others. I am going to need to start a collection.

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Italian conservator Lorenza D'Alessandro working on the conservation of the tomb of Nefertari, QV66, in the 1980s.

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Fossil hunting this weekend. Followed by a swim in the Great Lakes.

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Newgrange, constructed circa 3,200 BCE, Ireland