Echo Of Our Own

A certain type of history collection

[nonporous]

[tanadrin]

I hope there’s an afterlife so that whoever made this pot 2,000 years ago can brag that their cookware is so good it’s still usable literally millennia later. Something about this object being lost for centuries and then rediscovered, and being put (successfully) to its original purpose again is so pleasing to me.

[oldpaintings]

Winter (January, Cycle of the Months), c.1404-07 by Master Wenceslas 

Trento, Castello del Buonconsiglio, Torre d’Aquilla (The Eagle’s Tower)

[historyarchaeologyartefacts]

[1080x843] Limestone fragment, Egypt late 6th century. The first sentence of the Iliad was written four times: “μῆνιν ἄειδε θεὰ Πηληϊάδεω Ἀχιλῆος”. Probably, it was made by a student who practiced writing in ancient Greek.

Source: https://reddit.com/r/ArtefactPorn/comments/dsl5ot/1080x843_limestone_fragment_egypt_late_6th/

[nonporous]

[libationbearers]

holding ancient objects is the most insane experience. this pot has the fingerprint of an ancient greek person in it? what if i burst into tears?

[luvingsunshine]

sapiens: a brief history of humankind

[the-puffinry]

three small terracotta ducks, Cyprus 600BC-500BC.

(link 2, 3)

[precious-silly-thing-deactivate]

Split-twig figurines from the Archaic Period of southwest North America

[bolaneno]

faces dated from 2,000 years ago carved in stone at the Lajes Archaeological Site in Manaus, Brazil

[banji-effect]

The ancient world was full of textile masterpieces we can only imagine… but most of them have rotted away. So few of them have come down to us in these days that we think of metal and stone as the primary mediums for the oldest artworks. But there were tapestries and fabric work that would have rivaled the finest wrought gold and iron and the first cave paintings.

[ryebreadgf]

AI research uncovers 300 ancient etchings in Peru's Nazca desert

obsessed with these little guys....

[uncanny-tranny]

Every time I think too deeply about how we've found the bones of thousands and thousands of years old ancient people and we've given them people names I just

Guys, do you get it? We put to name these ancient peoples whose bodies vaguely resemble us and we go, "you're one of us, and we will give you a name that we have invented". They are not here to have a voice for themselves, but they are here to be remembered.

To be named is to be loved.

[legitimately]

My new favorite genre of picture is a very special thing that most animals (and humans!) do: face nuzzling as an act of greeting/comfort/intimacy. thank God that this is happening all over the world right now

Isn’t it wonderful?!

[ciceronian]

This Day in History:

VII IDVS SEP<TEM>BRES Q POSTVMIVS ROGAVIT A ATTIVM PEDICARIM

On September 7th Quintus Postumius asked Aulus Attius if I could fuck him (in the ass).

CIL IV.8805

[strawberry-crocodile]

your scent processing being so close to memory in your brain is insane sometimes you step outside and take a whiff and go "ah, it smells like playing pokemon emerald in my third grade afterschool program in the crisp september of 2006"

[mother-river]

"It took me years to realize that Inca and pre-Columbian architecture is directly related to the structure of the corn kernels. In a western model of thought, one might judge the shapes as irregular, but in a universal thought, everything is a correlation between the cosmos, science, art, and humanity (...) The organic growth forms are represented in a logarithmic way, and these pentagonal, hexagonal, and heptagonal blocks coincide with the corn forms. The lack of symmetry in the walls helps dissipate the energy of the earthquakes. They were incredible engineers. Japanese researchers studied Machu Picchu after the Kobe earthquake and realized that these Inca structures had not been damaged by it. " - Juan Casco