thearchaicsmile:

Late Roman stone mosaic from the Greek city of Halicarnassus, Caria (modern Bodrum, Turkey), dated 4th century AD, now in the British Museum. A coloured laurel wreath encloses a Greek inscription with the following words:

ΥΓΙΑ “Health”
ΖΟΗ “Life”
ΧΑΡΑ “Joy”
ΕΙΡΗΝΗ “Peace”
ΕΥΘΥΜΙΑ “Happiness”
ΕΛΠΙϹ “Hope”

🏛️: © The Trustees of the British Museum

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ancientrome:

Fresco from Pompeii.

1000-life-hacks:

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memories-of-ancients:

Sword crafted in Venice, Italy, dated 1505

from The Burrell Collection, Glasgow

angrylovelyheart:

Apoxyomenos (athlete scraping his body with a strigil) bronze, Roman copy of a bronze original by Polykleitos ca. 320 BCE, discovered in excavations in Ephesus, 1896

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delicatuscii-wasbella102:

Mongolian Petroglyphs Prehistoric rock carvings found throughout the country, particularly in the Altai Mountains and the Gobi Desert. 

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radical-revolution:

“My father always used to say:

‘Early to bed and early to rise makes a man healthy, wealthy, and wise.’

The lights in our house were turned off at 8 p.m.,

and we’d wake at dawn to the smell of coffee, fried eggs, and (jerky meat).

My father followed that general routine his whole life—

and he died young, broke, and not very wise, I think.

For your information, I rejected his advice.

I stayed up late and woke up late.

Now, I’m not saying I conquered the world,

but I avoided many early morning traffic jams,

escaped some common dangers,

and met a few strange and wonderful people.

One of them was me—

a person my father never got to know.”

— Charles Bukowski

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Híbridos/Hybrids (medieval, from illuminated manuscripts done by monks) for all :) 2

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memories-of-ancients:

Black figure amphora, Greece, circa 530 BC

from The Penn Museum

tridentandtales:

Aswan continues to deliver; there was another tomb discovery

An Egyptian-Italian team has just found another rock-cut tomb (Nr. 38) from the Graeco-Roman period.
It’s 2 meters underground, with a stone staircase and benches, likely used for funerary offerings.
Inside the tomb is a nearly 2-meter-tall sarcophagus made from limestone with a painted human face, elaborate wig, and inscriptions invoking local deities and identifying the tomb’s owner: Ka-Mesiu, a high-ranking official.
Besides the tomb, several mummies, including children, were found.
They are now planning to use CT scans and bioanalyses to learn more about the life and death of these mummies.

(pictures from the Ministry of Tourism and Antiquities)

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tridentandtales:

An early ruler etched in stone?

A rock art panel from Aswan depicting a boat and seven people, dating back to the late fourth millennium BCE, has been discovered by archaeologists. According to the publication, the “palanquin-like structure” and the person within are interpreted as a king, due to the “chin elongation typical for depictions of early rulers”.

What makes this find so special? It is known that Menes (a ruler from the First Dynasty) brought together Upper and Lower Egypt, and thus he is often described as the founder of the First Dynasty. However, very little is known about kingship, elite displays, and the role of politics before that.

Dorian Vanhulle (the author of the article) writes:

“Rock engravings from the Lower Nile Valley have the potential to help explain early forms of political power and how the landscape was exploited to express and consolidate authority.”

The full article is available here

browndresswithwhitedots:

Fish-shaped palette. Egypt, Predynastic period, Nagada lIl (C.3500-3300 BC) Musée du Louvre Photo: Hervé Lewandowski.

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ancientpeoples:

Bronze Corinthian helmet

Greece, c. 540 BCE

This magnificent bronze helmet is an exceptional example of Corinthian personal armor. It is skillfully beaten from a single sheet of bronze. Developed in the early 600’s BCE, the Corinthian style helmet had no ear holes, but had a cap-shaped crown, solid nose guard, and flared cheek pieces. For display and further protection, a horsehair crest would have been attached to the top of the crown ridge. Small holes pierced along this ridge would have been used to secure the missing crest. Away from combat, the helmet could be pushed up to rest above the face. A typical set of Greek armor from this period also included a bronze breastplate and metal shin guards called greaves. The pure abstract form, simple curvilinear eyebrows, and restrained floral décor make this an especially beautiful, utilitarian object.

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