#ancient art

[1five1two]

Chimú culture, Peru.

[bulljumpingfresco]

Alabastron pottery decorated in the Six technique on white ground: youths and horses under a tree. Graffito inscriptions in field. Excavated in Eretria, attributed to the Psiax painter, 520BCE-500BCE

Source: The British Museum

[pippimaraschino]

preserved 500 year old body of the "Llullaillaco Maiden" a 15 year old Inca girl sacrificed and left to freeze at a 22000 foot volcano summit ,Found in 1999 , she looks like she is merely sleeping with intact internal organs and blood still present in her heart.

[memories-of-ancients]

Flintlock pistol crafted in Tuscany, Italy, third quarter of the 18th century

from Czerny's International Auction House

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A priestess at the altar. (detail of the Hagia Triada sarcophagus) Heraklion Archeological Museum (photo by Dimitrios Harissiadis)

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Roman Sarcophagus Achilles with the body of Hector AD 180-220 marble Getty Museum, Los Angeles

[kallistoriae]

— Pasiphae and the Minotaur, 4th century BC kylix