Domed white chests marked with numbers stand on a dusty floor before a gilded wall; at right, a gilded cow head with black horns, and a heap of broken wooden objects behind.

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Chests and a gilded cow head with numbered tags inside an Egyptian tomb

NB! · Archaeology · Art · Observations

Furnishings from Tutankhamun's tomb of the 1300s BC in a modern interior

The furnishings from Tutankhamun's tomb are, for me, among the most powerful aesthetic experiences. It is scarcely credible that this dates from the 1300s BC. I can quite easily picture the golden couches in the form of lions and bulls, the heads of the celestial cow, the chests,

NB! · Art · Observations · Humour

Spotted a table by a Dutch master, rather like something from Tutankhamun's storeroom

Spotted a table by a Dutch master, rather like something from Tutankhamun's storeroom. But it also costs 30 thousand euros 😭

NB! · Art · Moscow · Observations · Society Pages · Humour

Well, the Cosmoscow opening was a success

Well, the Cosmoscow opening was a success. There are plenty of splendid things, but their prices are more splendid still

A small figure of a mammoth with thick reddish fur and long curved tusks on a wooden shelf next to a pencil.

NB! · London · Museums · Observations · Palaeontology · Humour

Miniature mammoth from the Natural History Museum in London

Good heavens, I am in love! Just look at this tiny mammoth from the Natural History Museum in London 😍😍

NB! · Architecture · Moscow · Science

The eight-petalled dome of GUM, incidentally, was created by our greatest engineer, Vladimir Shukhov

The eight-petalled dome of GUM, incidentally, was created by our greatest engineer, Vladimir Shukhov. So GUM is a relative of Shukhov's television tower, of the Pushkin Museum with its glass roof, and of the Kiyevsky Railway Station with its arched covered train shed

Black-and-white photo of a woman archer drawing a bow, in a white frame under glass. The caption reads Irma Danielsson, Sweden, 1969. A glass gallery roof is behind.

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Irma Danielsson, 1969 World Field Archery Champion, in an exhibition photograph

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Condition: Aristotle

NB! · Books · Observations · Humour

Don't even think of inviting me if your book party doesn't look like the gathering in this cupboard

Don't even think of inviting me if your book party doesn't look like the gathering in this cupboard. First shelf: the collected works of Charles Darwin. Third shelf: the Halych Gospels of 1144. Mind blown

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Russia ♥️

NB! · Art · Monarchies · Observations

I adore this portrait of Catherine II: so charming, so unaffected and, above all, unflattering

I adore this portrait of Catherine II: so charming, so unaffected and, above all, unflattering. It is a great pity that the artist's name has not come down to us

A white round tower with a conical plank roof against a blue sky. Apple trees with red fruit stand in front, and a person is on the lawn by the wall.

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