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I’m so happy with all the love my Silly little guy got 💛. He got so much love that he has now found a special companion to be extra silly with.
Girls don't want boyfriends. Girls want an expensively made Medici-styled historical drama HBO show about Alexander the Great
If the Ancient Aliens/Ancient Astronauts theory is true, then aliens must really hate white people
interests yay!
all in the tags below if anyone was curious.. heh (IM NOT WEIRD I SWEAR PLEASE LETS BE FRIENDS IF U LIKE ANY OF THESE THINGS!!!) (I DIDNT ADD EVERYTHING I LIKE... JUST ASK IF I LIKE SMTH!)
This shreck meme has seen me go through primary school and into late secondary man
I worked very hard on this
Not generally, but now I do
Do you ever think about how many of the items now considered priceless artifacts were once commonplace items? The coins we now marvel at from behind the glass at a museum were once tossed around, stepped on, and traded around. The pottery painstakingly pieced back together was somebody’s favorite wine jug. The decorative pin now rusted and bent once held together the shoulder of someone’s chiton. History is simply a trail of ordinary people going about their day, and I think there’s an odd sort of beauty in that.
Cool.
Carnelian stamp seal featuring a kitty, Minoan, 1900-1600 BC
from The Metropolitan Museum of Art
“what do you call someone who sacrifices peace to fight for liberty? a hero” — my history teacher talking about bread and circuses???
—Queen Esther
Science side of tumblr I need someone to carbon date this meme to see how old it is pretty plz. It’s miraculous enough that such an artifact came to be so well preserved
Ancient Necklace with Mosaic Glass Beads, from the Eastern Mediterranean, c.100 BCE-100 CE: this necklace is composed of 30 glass beads, most of which are decorated with stylized faces
From the John Paul Getty Museum:
The beads are made of multi-colored opaque glass and are decorated with heads and floral designs. The necklace is in good condition; some beads are chipped or cracked.
The exact origin of this piece is unknown, but it can be traced back to the Eastern Mediterranean, where it was likely made by a Greek or Roman artist.
Each bead has a width of about 1.2cm (roughly half an inch); they're decorated with remarkably intricate details, and each face is depicted in its own unique style.
Sources & More Info:
John Paul Getty Museum: Necklace with Mosaic Glass Beads
~ Helmet of Gladiator.
Date: A.D. 1st century
Medium: Bronze
~ Wooden figure of the Anubis-jackal, with long tail.
Cultures/Period: Late Period
Place of origin: Egypt
Medium: Wood
I wouldn't want to come across these in the middle of the night, they would scare my pants off. Phoenicians/Carthaginians apparently thought so too because they placed these menacingly grinning masks inside their tombs to scare off evil spirits and guard against evil. These particular exemplars come from Tunisia, Spain, and Sardinia respectively.
Carnelian stamp seal featuring a kitty, Minoan, 1900-1600 BC
from The Metropolitan Museum of Art
The gorgeous Bird Mosaic from the so-called House of the Birds in Italica, Spain, features 35 different species of birds.
Terracotta vase in the form of a lobster claw, Greece, circa 460 BC
from The Metropolitan Museum of Art
DOG MOSAICS (From Italy and Greece ××)
~ Crab Vessel with Double Spout.
Place of origin: Colombia, Calima Region
Period: Ilama Period
Date: 1500 B.C.-A.D. 100
Medium: Ceramics
Koré del siglo VI a.C aprox (520-510) de la Acrópolis. Una de las escasas representaciones que existen de esculturas con restos de policromía exhibiendo algunos colores. Realmente espectacular.
We are connected to eachother through legend and myth.
"We are, as a species, addicted to story. Even when the body goes to sleep, the mind stays up all night, telling itself stories."
–Jonathan Gottshall
Yeah, what they said. Have some respect for the ancestors, dweebs
Not pertinent to anything in particular but I do think it's kinda weird that we keep depicting cavemen in media crawling around on all fours covered in dirt with tangled, matted hair, speaking in broken, cobbled-together toddler language when like.
They were us.
Like literally genetically they were US, just like. A while ago.
Like
Would you trust a TV caveman with a baby? Probably not
A real life caveman though??? I think they'd be at least okay at it
the water engulfed without a moon to reflect. Ashes from desperate cries left burning magnesium through the rues. Starry hands sought the earth, and withdrew as if scalded, scorned whispers echoing through the lifeless home. The heavens grieved and stroked the rivers of fire, flowing ever so serenely now, sobbed harder and washed off memories to a place better deserved. the once bright lanterns, the sole conspirators of curtained stages, no longer remained diminished but choked underneath the clouds. The repressing haze, one which burned your breath, dissipated under the violent fog. The deep violet skies rumbled, quiet in regret, flooded the builds again and again, till life grew anew. The rushing sound never ceased, till the scorched red cleared the ruins brown, till the crushed whispers smelt home. Eventually, a blue, much like your eyes emerged through the tar clouds, and the broken hands gave way to crawling flowers. Amidst the drenched rubble, the soft footsteps of a lone writer remained as lone witness to Pompeii's apology.
And speaking the ancient tongue is like reaching out and having a chat with history itself, shadows and shimmers of unspoken words bound by time, now escaping through the curve of your lips.
we are the next prometheus. will we end up like our own creator?
I was looking up something today and two of my recent searches popped up. I think that they may perhaps be equivalent.
Inside all of us are three Greeks: one from Sparta, one from Athens, and one from Athos. Two of them are gay and one is a virgin.
“Your name isn’t Hermes, it’s Bore-mes. Because you bore me.”
- Apollo to Hermes (at one point, probably)