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Neolithic settlement of Ain Ghazal in Jordan and its alabaster statues
In 1984, road builders in Jordan discovered Ain Ghazal, the largest Neolithic settlement yet found, which at its height, in the 8th millennium BC, was home to 3,000 people. The population of Jericho in the same period is estimated at around 2,000. Ain Ghazal also covered 15 hectares,
NB! · Archaeology · Observations · Mores · Humour
Original and reconstructed tools of a medieval manicure set
Looking at this manicure set (originals on the right, reconstructed tools on the left), I would not wish life in the Middle Ages on anyone!!! anyone!!! Well, except Louis-Philippe and Yana Rudkovskaya
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Traces of a Child in Sandals and a Puppy on a Tile of the 1st Century AD
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A Theory of the Zoroastrian Origin of the Mithraic Tauroctony
There is a theory that the Mithraic tauroctony was borrowed from the eschatological slaying of the bull in Zoroastrianism. In the bas-relief, a scorpion bites off the slain bull's penis
Archaeology · Faith · The East
Mithra among Iranians, Indo-Aryans and Romans and parallels with the cult of Christ
A god named Mithra belonged to the Iranians, the Indo-Aryans and the Hellenes. Historians have reached no consensus on whether this is one deity or several. The Roman Mithras was seen at the beginning of our era as a serious rival to Jesus, with the worship of whom Mithraism
NB! · Archaeology · Archive · The East · People · Humour
Why Haven't You Written Your Tablet or Done Your Homework? Serua-eterat, Sister of the 13-Year-Old Ashurbanipal, to His Wife, 672 BC
NB! · Archaeology · Science · Ethnography · Humour
How a noble Etruscan woman looks in her funerary portrait and how scholars reconstructed her face: girls on Instagram vs in real life
Archaeology · Heritage · Ethnography
Destruction of Stonehenge by medieval farmers and vandals and the ban on entry since 1977
Even before the ban of 1977 nobody was forbidden to walk inside Stonehenge, but the fact that thousands of people laid hands on the megaliths caused considerable erosion. Nowadays, on ordinary days, the megalithic complex cannot be entered, but on the day of the summer solstice thousands of people gather
NB! · Archaeology · Architecture · Heritage
The Roman amphitheatre of the 1st century in Arles survives in fine condition: from the 6th century it served as a fortress with towers and two hundred buildings, but by the 19th century these structures were demolished, restoring the amphitheatre to its
Archaeology · Faith · Monarchies
Some scholars believe that the chryselephantine Apollo of the 6th century BC was part of the ex-voto of Croesus, King of Lydia, to the Delphic oracle
Some scholars believe that the chryselephantine Apollo of the 6th century BC was part of the ex-voto of Croesus, King of Lydia, to the Delphic oracle. An ex-voto is an offering to a deity or a priest in gratitude or in fulfilment of a vow. Votive objects have
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Chryselephantine sculpture: from chrysos (gold) and elephantinos (ivory)
Chryselephantine sculpture: from chrysos (gold) and elephantinos (ivory). Statues with a wooden frame were covered in ivory and clothed in gold. Only fragments of these beautiful statues have survived to this day