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After the decline of the ancient world, countless masterpieces of art lost their value in the eyes of men
After the decline of the ancient world, countless masterpieces of art lost their value in the eyes of men. Marble sculptures were smashed so that their bases could be used in the foundations of outhouses, and magnificently wrought bronze statues were melted down for scrap. By the fifth and sixth
NB! · Archaeology · Architecture · The East · Art · Museums
Reliefs of the Halicarnassus Mausoleum, 4th century BC, by four Greek masters, Scopas, Timotheus, Bryaxis and Leochares, depicting the war of the Greeks and the Amazons
NB! · Archaeology · Museums · Observations · Humour
Officially, this naked 2,500-year-old terracotta fellow from Boeotia is grating cheese, but as a man who has seen far too much contextual advertising, I am convinced that what he holds in his hands is a bar of Soviet household soap
Archaeology · Art · Pop Culture · Humour
Anthropomorphic mud glyph from an Alabama cave dated to between 700 and 900 AD
An anthropomorphic figure with a radiating semicircle in place of a backside, from unnamed cave No. 19 in Alabama, signals insistently to the people of the 21st century, who likewise worship an idol of ample stern embodied in the figure of Kim Kardashian. Looking at this mud glyph, one might
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Bronze Poseidon of 480 BC found in the Bay of Livadostra in Boeotia, Greece
Bronze Poseidon, 480 BC. Found in the Bay of Livadostra in Boeotia, Greece. Not the handsomest of the gods.
NB! · Archaeology · The East · Museums · Humour
Decorated Mesopotamian weight of 2600 BC and proposed uses for the object
DIOR MINI handbag, Ancient Mesopotamia, 2600 BC. Regarded as a decorated weight, but it may quite as well have served as a part of a loom, for religious purposes, as part of a dowry or as a gift
Archaeology · Architecture · Observations
Ruins of the Temple of Apollo at Delphi and its earlier temples according to Pausanias
This is what part of the ruins looks like at the historic site in Greece known as Delphi. The very homeland of the oracle, at the temple of Apollo. Situated on another part of the slopes and very similar to these ruins, the temple remains belong to a structure of
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A kore with pale red braids, yellow earring discs and a headdress picked out in yellow and dark tones goes on show at the Royal Ontario Museum, brought from a museum in Athens to mark 80 years of Greek-Canadian relations
A kore with pale red braids, yellow earring discs and a headdress picked out in yellow and dark tones is on show at the Royal Ontario Museum in honour of the 80th anniversary of Greek-Canadian relations, brought over from a museum in Athens. This sculpture of the 6th century
Archaeology · Observations · Science
A Woman Has Found a Bronze Age Palace!!!
It is rather splendid that the days when anyone could be surprised by a scientific discovery having been made by a woman are behind us
NB! · Archaeology · Art · London · Museums
Red-figure stamnos of the 480s BC with Odysseus and the Sirens, British Museum
Odysseus and the Sirens. Red-figure stamnos, 480s BC. Collection of the British Museum
NB! · Archaeology · Architecture · Heritage · Rome
Well-preserved section of the original marble floor in the Colosseum
A genuine piece of marble flooring in the Colosseum. Excellent state of preservation