Archaeology - The Parnassian (Page 33)

NB! · Archaeology · Archive · Science · People

Notes on "The Earliest Destinies of the Slavs" from the Archive of Academician Boris Rybakov

White painted head with a red band on the forehead, dark brows and eyes, red lips and red dots on the cheeks and chin, on a red stand.

NB! · Archaeology · Museums · Humour

Painted head from Mycenae, 13th century BC, with red headband and rouge

It seems you have gone to bed in your make-up again. Your ceramic head, Mycenae, 13th century BC.

NB! · Archaeology · Architecture · Heritage

In the Croatian city of Pula, a Roman amphitheatre survives in splendid condition, and the locals call it their Colosseum

Archaeology · Art · Museums · Humour

Have You No Shame Before the Guests, Jupiter!

Have you no shame before the guests, Jupiter! New gods never come to mortals naked. Jupiter, Juno, Minerva. Roman sculptures. Most probably grave goods. Weißenburg Roman Museum.

Close-up of a stone mask with empty eye sockets, a long nose and an open mouth with carved teeth.

NB! · Archaeology · The East · Museums

Neolithic stone masks from the Judean Desert, 9,000 years old

With empty eye sockets and gaping mouths: not guests of Mutabor, but Neolithic masks from the Judean Desert. These 9,000-year-old artefacts are carved from limestone and served a ritual purpose, embodying the spirits of ancestors

Archaeology · Cinema · Museums · Saint Petersburg · Ethnography

The funerary mask of the semi-legendary Empress Himiko in the film "Tomb Raider: Lara Croft" is a complete replica of a real woman's mask from the Oglakhty burial ground in Khakassia

The funerary mask of the semi-legendary Empress Himiko in the film "Tomb Raider: Lara Croft" is a complete replica of a real woman's mask from the Oglakhty burial ground in Khakassia. The painted plaster mask, made by a woman of the Tashtyk archaeological culture, dates

Archaeology · Museums · Observations · Science

nplus1 reports that Italian archaeologists have discovered in the Natural History Museum of the University of Florence six previously unrecorded cardboard boxes and wooden crates containing more than 150 bone fragments, including the remains of two infant

nplus1 reports that Italian archaeologists have discovered in the Natural History Museum of the University of Florence six previously unrecorded cardboard boxes and wooden crates containing more than 150 bone fragments, including the remains of two infants. It turned out that they had been excavated as long ago as the

Archaeology · Art · Heritage · Science · Ethnography

Petroglyphs of the White Sea and Lake Onega inscribed on the UNESCO World Heritage List

Institute of Archaeology of the Russian Academy of Sciences on the inscription of the Karelian petroglyphs on the UNESCO list:. For the first time, monuments of Russian rock art have been inscribed on the UNESCO World Heritage List: at the extended 44th session of the World Heritage Committee, which is

Archaeology · Observations · Heritage · Science

Today is a very important day for Russian archaeology, historical science and culture: at long last the petroglyphs of Karelia, thousands of Neolithic rock carvings on the shores of the White Sea and Lake Onega, have been recognised as a UNESCO World Heri

Today is a very important day for Russian archaeology, historical science and culture: at long last the petroglyphs of Karelia, thousands of Neolithic rock carvings on the shores of the White Sea and Lake Onega, have been recognised as a UNESCO World Heritage site, among the most astonishing in the

Archaeology · Art · Observations · Science

The Palaeoart Centre of the Institute of Archaeology and a programme with Elena Levanova

I am often asked about the origins of art in the earliest epochs of humanity, but this is not quite my field, despite several articles on the subject and a few interesting thoughts. Our Academy of Sciences has a team that deals with the questions of ancient pictorial practices with

Archaeology · The East · Museums · Heritage · Paris · Humour

Sarcophagus of King Ahiram found in Paris, buried under junk: it serves as a storeroom for brooms and mops in a littered utility room of an administrative building

The sarcophagus discovered in a Franco-Lebanese house is a cast of the original kept in the National Museum of Beirut, incidentally one of its chief treasures. The magnificent sarcophagus of Ahiram, found by the French archaeologist Pierre Montet in 1923, is considered a symbol of Franco-Lebanese friendship: that,

Three archaeologists stand beside a huge stone Corinthian capital with carved acanthus leaves at an excavation site.

NB! · Archaeology · Architecture · The East · Observations

Twenty-tonne Corinthian capital found during excavations at Cyzicus in Turkey

Archaeologists beside an imposing 20-tonne Corinthian capital at the excavation site in Cyzicus, in the west of modern Turkey. If the capital crowning the column is 2.5 metres high and 1.9 metres in diameter, can you imagine how large the column itself must have been?