NB! · Museums · Nature

Vertebrae of the Blue Whale

Painted wooden model of three women and a man in white garments walking in line, two carrying baskets on their heads and one holding a bag.

NB! · Archaeology · Art · Museums

Servants carrying provisions for their master's afterlife in Ancient Egypt

Servants bear drink, food, cosmetics and valuables for their master's afterlife. Ancient Egypt

A white figurine of a cross-legged scribe on a white pedestal beside a black vessel with a relief pattern, against an orange wall.

NB! · Archaeology · Museums · Ethnography

Zapotec scribe figurine at the RGGU museum, named by analogy with Egyptian scribes

A Zapotec scribe figurine from the RSUH Museum. It received its name by analogy with the characteristic Egyptian scribe figurines, about which I wrote earlier: https://telegram.me/captainpaleo/74

NB! · Archaeology · Museums

The Ceramic Grenade of the Middle Ages

NB! · Archaeology · Museums

A Medieval Hand Grenade

Archaeology · The East · Museums

A power-station worker in Israel amassed an impressive collection of antiquities washed up on the shore

From 1971 he collected metal objects that he came across at work. After his death, his relatives invited staff from an archaeology museum to make sense of the collection. It must be said that the assembled finds proved interesting not only from the layman's point of view. There

NB! · Art · Museums · Paris

The Seated Statue of the Scribe Kai

Archaeology · Art · Museums · Observations · Paris

Statue of the Seated Scribe Kai in the Louvre, with eyes of rock crystal and quartz

In big museums I always head first for the Egyptian antiquities gallery. You never know what unique artefacts may turn up there. Even collections as colossal as the Louvre count the legacy of Ancient Egypt among their chief treasures. And if you hurried through the Louvre's Egyptian gallery

NB! · Art · London · Museums

Goddesses, British Museum

The East · Museums · Observations · Pop Culture · Ethnography

Summer jacket of salmon skin sewn by a Nanai woman in the Amur valley

SALMON-SKIN CLOTHING WOULD BE FIT EVEN FOR A KING. This summer jacket, which looks like a tsar's baby-shirt, is made of salmon skin. It was sewn by a Nanai woman from the Amur valley, though the piece looks like a statement coat from a Dries Van

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Jacket by Nanai craftswomen, made of salmon skin

NB! · Museums · Palaeontology · Nature