NB! · Archaeology · Art · Museums · New York
Bronze ceremonial helmet of a high-ranking warrior, 1500-1100 BC
Bronze ceremonial helmet of a high-ranking warrior, 1500-1100 BC. Metropolitan Museum of Art.
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NB! · Archaeology · Archive · Architecture
The Palace of Knossos, a Postcard of 1900
NB! · Archaeology · The East
The Seal of Cyrus the Great
NB! · Coming Up · Archaeology · Art · Museums · Rome
The exhibition "Art and Sensuality in the Houses of Pompeii" at the Great Palaestra runs until 15 January 2023
NB! · Archaeology · Art · Museums · Observations · Rome
Ancient Sculptures from the Archaeological Park of Ostia Antica on Display at Rome's Fiumicino Airport
Ancient sculptures from the Archaeological Park of Ostia Antica have gone on display at Rome's Fiumicino Airport. A capital idea for a museum partnership!
NB! · Archaeology · Architecture · Heritage
Two ancient Roman amphitheatres of Aquincum survive in Budapest
Two ancient Roman amphitheatres survive in modern Budapest: the Civil and Military Amphitheatres at Aquincum. The first could hold up to 6,000 spectators, the second 12,000.
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Two-Coloured Marble Statue of Isis, 1st–2nd Centuries AD
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The Temple of Poseidon at Sounion, by the French Artist Paul Bret
Archaeology · The East · Observations · Science
A 1.8-Million-Year-Old Tooth Found in Excavations at Dmanisi in Georgia
Research team leader Georgy Bidzinashvili displays a human tooth 1.8 million years old, found during excavations at Dmanisi in Georgia. This and a number of other finds make the localities of Orozmani and Dmanisi the oldest sites of human settlement in the world outside Africa. But I think we
NB! · Archaeology · Moscow
White-stone cannonballs found by the Kosmodemyansky Tower of the Kitay-gorod Wall in 1958
White-stone cannonballs found by the Kosmodemyansky Tower of the Kitay-gorod Wall in 1958. Dated to the 16th and 17th centuries. Cannonballs of this kind were fired by the stone-throwing ordnance on the walls of Moscow during its defence.
NB! · Archaeology · Museums · Humour
Roman head of Medusa Gorgon from the 1st century AD in the Xanten Archaeological Museum
The most charming Medusa Gorgon in the world is kept in the Archaeological Museum of Xanten, Germany. The work of Roman craftsmen of the 1st century AD. In Rome, the head of Medusa was used as a talisman against evil spells
Archaeology · Observations · Science · Nature · Humour
Human footprints from White Sands National Park in New Mexico
Human footprints from White Sands National Park in New Mexico. Left 21,000 to 23,000 years ago. But judging by the photo, it is hard to say that a barefoot way of life spared the makers of these prints from flat feet.