Archaeology - The Parnassian (Page 32)

Watercolour of the Parthenon façade restored in colour, with a statue of Athena holding a spear, shield and serpent at the centre.

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Colour restoration of the Parthenon at the Paris-Athens exhibition at the Louvre

The Parthenon in colour. From the “Paris-Athens” exhibition at the Louvre

Gold diadem with two gazelle heads and round rosettes inlaid in blue and red, shown against a dark background.

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Diadem of one of the wives of Thutmose III with gazelle heads and rosettes

Diadem of one of the wives of Thutmose III. Style 👌🏼

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Tutankhamun's sarcophagus resembles my bed in winter, at least in the number of layers

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Child's potty of the 6th century BC found in Athens and the inventions of ancient Greece

Don't even think of trying to escape. A child's potty of the 6th century BC, found in Athens. It is odd that this ingenious model is not manufactured today, but it does make plain the thesis that in Ancient Greece literally everything was invented, and that

Archaeology · The East · Mores · People

Sophia Schliemann in 1874 wearing a diadem from the Treasure of Priam smuggled out of Troy

Everyone, no doubt, remembers Agatha Christie's remark that it is good to be an archaeologist's wife, since the older a woman grows, the more interesting he finds her. Sophia Schliemann would perhaps have added: and besides, one may wear the freshly discovered treasures. In 1874 Sophia,

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A Note for Treasure Hunters 📝

Gold mask made of a thin, crumpled metal sheet with raised nose, brows and lips, and small holes along the edges.

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Gold funerary mask of the Lambayeque culture from northern Peru, 8th to 10th century

You Look Better on Social Media... Golden funerary mask of the Lambayeque culture of northern Peru, 8th to 10th centuries.

Archaeology · Architecture · London · Moscow

A 12th-century street in the Moscow Kremlin paved with the bones of domestic animals

This is what a seventeenth-century road paved with cattle bones looks like in Oxford. Bones as a road surface were used not only in England but more or less everywhere in Europe. In the Moscow Kremlin an entire street has been found, admittedly a far older one, dating from

Close-up of a marble statue whose hands hold a foot, with a bust of a bearded man visible behind it in a museum gallery.

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The sculptural subject “Boy Removing a Thorn”, known since the 3rd century BC

Art That Makes You Feel: The Boy Removing a Thorn. A subject known since the 3rd century BC.

Mummy of a woman with long dark hair and a pale fur hat lying on an ochre woven mat.

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Four-Thousand-Year-Old Mummy of a Woman from the Tarim Basin in Xinjiang

A beautifully preserved four-thousand-year-old mummy of a woman from the Tarim Basin in the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region. What lovely hair and headdress, even after all these years

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Skull of a young athlete crowned with a golden Olympic wreath, 1st century AD. Archaeological Museum of Agios Nikolaos

Skull of a young athlete crowned with a golden Olympic wreath, 1st century AD. Archaeological Museum of Agios Nikolaos. In the athlete's mouth lay a silver coin for Charon, so that he might ferry the soul of the deceased across the Styx

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How do you like these conventionally attractive Neanderthals from the Moesgaard Museum of History in Denmark?

How do you like these conventionally attractive Neanderthals from the Moesgaard Museum of History in Denmark? Do you fancy a look at their tools? I think that against such a backdrop, the hand axes from Drenthe, fifty thousand years old, look considerably more interesting than a mere heap of sharpened