#ancient

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This is an ancient Egyptian gold ring with a carved jasper frog, dating from 600–30 BC.

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Hellenistic Greek Cast Glass Pomegranate Vase

2nd century B.C.E. — 1st century C.E.

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Roof of the Library of Celsus, Ephesus, Turkey

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🚨HOMER ALERT 🚨 a copy of a section from The Iliad has been identified as the text in a papyrus placed on the abdomen of a mummified person, excavated last year, as part of the embalming ritual. Pride of place, not stuffed inside a cavity like previously found texts, and the first piece of Literature found on a mummy and in a funerary context.

And guess which bit it is?

THE CATALOGUE OF SHIPS 😂😂😂😂

(Well, we all knew those pages had to be *someone’s* favourite bit 😉)

BRB, off to shoehorn this into a lesson…

Article: https://share.google/6ljv0Ny7jeNBbvW60

Archaeologists stunned to find copy of Homer’s Iliad inside ancient Egyptian mummy

Papyrus fragment discovered inside mummy buried in Roman-era tomb around 1,600 years ago

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An ancient Etruscan tomb painting, often referred to as the "Tomb of the Chariots" (Tomba delle Bighe). The fresco dates to around 490 BCE and was discovered in the Tarquinia necropolis in Italy. It is one of the earliest known depictions of same-sex intimacy in Western art.

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Rites of Passage, Wiltshire

Anya Hope Medlin