#archaeology

[historyisntboring]

2,500-year-old Siberian 'ice mummy' had intricate tattoos

The woman, aged about 50, was buried in a Siberian ice cave and discovered millennia later.

She was a 50 y.o. Siberian woman from 2500 years ago, living a nomadic lifestyle, and look at her tattoos...

Look...

I'm going to cry

[hellenicgoddess]

Ancient Greek Coins With Octopuses 🐙

[silky-selkie]

[ancient-rome-au]

Discovery in the Judean Desert Reveals a Widespread Practice of Forging Royal Purple Garments in Ancient Rome

Clothing in antiquity functioned as an immediately legible social code, a woven system of signs in which the appearance of a garment, the na

There was such a thing as "counterfeit" Tyrian purple. Incredible.

[lostinhistory]

Archeosky was having fun with this

[2seeitall]

Poppies at the Temple of Apollo, Ancient Corinth (Greece) 

[micewithknives]

I let myself rest and now I'm daydreaming about academia and academic research and writing again