TheCaptainConway

IDK, stuff and/or things.

[lsleofskye]

Read your fears | andybachtiar_

[wanderloco]

Enjoy this miracle of Nature, what a time to be alive.

📍 Chicago | 📸 Mmeyers 

[maureen2musings]

Mt. Hood & Lake Trillium

davidgayphotography

[grupaok]

Mosaic from ~1000 B.C. showing sea life in the Mediterranean

[diabeticlesbian]

I’ve long said you can’t trust straight historians

[makingqueerhistory]

[Image Description: The yellowed page of a book reads, “The Roman collection of the British Museum in London includes a tombstone that had marked a double grave. At first sight, it appeared that the couple buried in the tomb were a man and a woman; the position and markings on the figures indicating that they had been married. On closer inspection, however, it was obvious that both had originally been female. Someone in the ancient world - or at the time of excavation- had crudely altered certain features on the face and torso of the right-hand figure so that it looked more masculine. The perpetrator, obviously outraged by this evidence of love between women in times of antiquity, took it upon themselves to tamper with history.”]

[tammuz]

The Bull-Headed Lyre of Ur, the world’s oldest surviving stringed instrument, dating back to ancient Mesopotamia’s Early Dynastic III Period (2550–2450 BCE). University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology, Philadelphia, PA.

Photo by Babylon Chronicle

[thecaptainconway-blog]

Work hard, Play hard! ^_^ #GameCube #LegendOfZelda #RewardScheme #StudyMotivation (at Easton, Bristol) https://www.instagram.com/p/BoecTveBKu4/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=17y8u37c2ncak

[thecaptainconway-blog]

Found a nice thing in Birmingham! #StreetArt #NotMyCity #WhatsInBirmingham #HomewardJourney (at Birmingham Coach Station) https://www.instagram.com/p/Bn_kgl0B_dU/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=vc910k5k6mn7

[thecaptainconway-blog]

Another one! What a lucky captain I am! #Magpie #Feather #ThursdayTreasure #LuckyMe (at Easton, Bristol)

[historical-nonfiction]

Brewers Use Yeast From Shipwrecked Beer To Make "World's Oldest Beer"

Twenty years ago, a team of divers found the wreck of the Sydney Cove. In 1796, the ship set sail from Calcutta, India, for Sydney, Australia. It sank along the way, taking 31,500 liters of tightly-sealed alcohol to the ocean floor. They were so well-sealed, in fact, that modern divers were surprised to discover that some bottles were still good!

Analyses revealed that the Sydney Cove was carrying port, grapes, and beer. The beer was an especially exciting find, because beer is a living thing, filled with yeasts for fermentation.  Brewers with Australia’s oldest brewery are hoping to use that yeast to create 18th-century-style beer.

First, they isolated the yeast from one of the beer bottles. They were excited to discovered that not only was the yeast 220 years old, but it was a rare hybrid strain, totally different from those used in modern beer. They had to experiment a lot to find a drink that was drinkable to modern tongues. One brewer described it as “taming” the yeast!

The result, The Wreck Preservation Ale, goes on sale this month.

[thecaptainconway-blog]

It's a stay-at-home chillin in my dressing gown of Slytherin kinda day. #LazyDay #IShouldProbablyGetDressed #ProbablyGotWorkToDo #SlytherinFoLyfe🐍 (at Easton, Bristol)

[thecaptainconway-blog]

[thenatsdorf]

“Do I look like I eat bugs?!”

[emchromatic]

I love this frog so much I drew a comic of it.

[historical-nonfiction]

Ancient Greek Palace Discovered Near Ancient Sparta

It appears to have been built in the 1600s to 1500s BCE, during the Mycenaean Age. At the site, archaeologists found objects of worship, clay figurines, a cup adorned with a bull’s head, swords and fragments of murals.

The recent find is being described as a “palace” – despite having just ten rooms. Times have certainly changed in the last 3,500 years.

[archaeologicalnews]

Skeleton of child trying to shelter from Vesuvius eruption uncovered in Pompeii

Archaeologists in Pompeii have discovered the skeleton of a child who tried in vain to hide from the cataclysmic eruption of Mt Vesuvius nearly 2,000 years ago.

It is the first time in about 50 years that a child’s skeleton has been found in the remains of the ancient Roman city, which lies just south of Naples and was destroyed in AD79.

The child, believed to be seven or eight years old, apparently took refuge in a public baths complex after the volcano erupted and started spewing ash and pumice into the air.

But the building could not save the terrified youngster from the effects of the eruption, which was witnessed by Pliny the Younger.

It is believed that he or she was not killed by falling debris, but instead suffocated by the clouds of scorching ash that enveloped the city, a thriving port on the Bay of Naples. Read more.

[didoofcarthage]

Pair of gold baule-type earrings with symmetrical palmettes flanked by repoussé crouching hares

Etruscan, Archaic Period, 6th century B.C.

Metropolitan Museum of Art