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The Boy with Klippel-Feil Syndrome: Archaeologists find prehistoric humans cared for sick and disabled | Link from Denver Post, article originally from NYT (fuck their paywall)
The Westminster Throne Graffitti: King Charles' Coronation Artifacts: Orb, Sceptre and a Vandalized Chair
“Halfdan carved these runes”: Wikipedia - ‘Runic Inscriptions in Hagia Sophia’, Viking Graffiti in Hagia Sophia: “Halvdan Carved These Runes”
A Paleolithic Dog & Its Bone: Prehistoric Dog Found with Mammoth Bone in Mouth
The White Dog from Melita (ft. other heartbreaking dog-grave epigraphs): Historians Discover Ancient Dog Tombs With Tear-Jerking Inscriptions
Letter of Apion: Academia.edu article: “Greetings from the camp. Memories and preoccupations in the papyrus correspondence of Roman soldiers with their families” [Takes you to the overview page where you can choose to download the PDF of the article], P.Oxy. III 533 (TM/HGV 28373) - Letter of Apion | Heidelberg University
Carnuntum Child’s Footprint: Honestly I can’t find anything about this other than that image re-uploaded to different Tumblrs and stuff like iFunny, so...unsure where to properly cite this one from.
Martial 5.34: The Classical Anthology, Poem analysis on feminaeromanae.org, Wikipedia - ‘Martial’, [bonus: ‘Sadie’ by Bill Coyle, a modern poem which seems directly inspired by Martial 5.34]
The Whitehawk Woman: National Geographic (also cited below for the Slonk Hill Man), LiveScience (also cited below for the Slonk Hill Man), Brighton & Hove Museums: ‘One of Brighton and Hove’s earliest known residents – Whitehawk Woman’
The Slonk Hill Man: LiveScience, National Geographic (could not find the article whose exact words are in the photo)
Adelasius Ebalchus: SwissInfo: ‘Facing up to Switzerland’s Roman past’, National Geographic,
The Wari Queen: Bored Panda (ft. all three of the above people too), LiveScience, Peru.Travel - ‘Four female representations of ancient Peru’, National Geographic article on the tomb she was found in (unfortunately paywalled for NatGeo subscribers only)
Guooey’s post on the boy who’d own a Minecraft Creeper in present day: Original post ending with @evilswampchicken art, original post with contributions from @fontain on reconstruction, original post with note-compliation of people comparing the boy to kids they know now
Image of the child holding a carved figurine: Cannot trace the image further than Tumblr
Herbert of Reichenau and his brother Werner: photographed post from @elucubrare, no clue what book this itself was cited from, [bonus: apparently this is the same post that the next two bits comes up in too? so...the extended version of the post]
Medieval parenting manual: The extended post mentioned above (started by @elucubrare and expanded on by @marzipanandminutiae)
Letter from Michael Psellos to his infant grandson: The same extended post mentioned above (started by @elucubrare and expanded on by @marzipanandminutiae and then @theoutcastrogue), Psellos’ letter is noted to be found in “Mothers and Sons, Fathers and Daughters: The Byzantine Family of Michael Psellos (University of Notre Dame Press, 2006).”
Children frolicking in puddles: LiveScience: “Ice age children frolicked in 'giant sloth puddles' 11,000 years ago, footprints reveal”
Onfim: Wikipedia: ‘Onfim’, TheVintageNews
Baby with Down Syndrome: Keranews: “Ancient Bones Offer Clues To How Long Ago Humans Cared For The Vulnerable”
Dawn, the Mesolithic Teen: Reuters: “Scientists reconstruct face of 9,000 year-old Greek teenager”, BBC.com
‘Marcus loves Spendusa’ (ft. some fun bonus carvings): United Streets of Art: “Graffiti of the Ancients: Pompeii”, Classical Wisdom: “The Dirty World of Ancient Graffiti”
I can’t find half of the graffiti included in that compilation image, but I did also find one or two articles covering ancient Greek graffiti in general: “A Sampling of Graffiti and Other Public and Semi-Public Texts from Pompeii and Herculaneum”, Haaretz.com: “Largest Collection of Ancient Graffiti Ever Found in Pompeii. Some Are Hysterically Funny”
Wet nurse terracotta statue: Wikimedia Commons file directory
Viking graffiti compilation: Stencil Archive: “Viking Graffiti in Scotland”
‘Someone will remember us’: Sappho, fragment 147
‘do you really think that people in the past were not people?’: original post by @natequarter
Toddler with a pillow: CNN.com: “The oldest human burial in Africa was a toddler laid to rest with a pillow”