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This is how Trajan column would have looked like at the beginning, when colored brightly as most of the Roman statues an...
02/29/2024

This is how Trajan column would have looked like at the beginning, when colored brightly as most of the Roman statues and relifes.
Trajan's column was erected in the Trajan's Forum in the second century. 110-113 AD, to celebrate the two victorious campaigns of emperor Trajan in Dacia. The column contains over 2500 figures and 155 scenes from the various phases of the war.

Believed to be 11,000 years old. Karahantepe, Near Göbeklitepe. Discovered in 2022.
02/29/2024

Believed to be 11,000 years old. Karahantepe, Near Göbeklitepe. Discovered in 2022.

Neolithic anthropomorphic marble figurine (5500–8000 BC) excavated in Çatalhöyük, Turkey.
02/29/2024

Neolithic anthropomorphic marble figurine (5500–8000 BC) excavated in Çatalhöyük, Turkey.

This is what Constantinople (modern Istanbul) would have looked like if the ancient Byzantine Hippodrome had survived in...
02/29/2024

This is what Constantinople (modern Istanbul) would have looked like if the ancient Byzantine Hippodrome had survived intact until today.
The bottom picture shows the surviving lower walls of the curved grandstand of the Hippodrome that became more visible in the 1980s with the clearing of houses in the area.

Pottery jar from Knossos. Period: Late Minoan. 📸©️ Ashmolean Museum.
02/29/2024

Pottery jar from Knossos. Period: Late Minoan.
📸©️ Ashmolean Museum.

Uraeus ("rearing cobra") is the stylized, upright form of an Egyptian cobra, used as a symbol of sovereignty, royalty, d...
02/28/2024

Uraeus ("rearing cobra") is the stylized, upright form of an Egyptian cobra, used as a symbol of sovereignty, royalty, deity and divine authority in ancient Egypt.
The Uraeus is a symbol for the goddess Wadjet.
This golden uraeus is of solid gold, 6.7 cm (2.6 in), black eyes of granite, a snake head of deep ultramarine lapis lazuli, the flared cobra hood of dark carnelian inlays, and inlays of amazonite. For mounting on the king’s crown, two loops in the rear-supporting tail of the cobra provide the attachment points.
Middle Kingdom, 12th Dynasty, reign of Senusret II, 1897-1878 BC.
📸 Egyptian Museum, Cairo

A map of the distribution of Roman coins found in Eurasia and North Africa.
02/28/2024

A map of the distribution of Roman coins found in Eurasia and North Africa.

gyptian Amulet in the Shape of Two Elephants, c. 3500–3300 BC. 📸 Metropolitan Museum of Art.
02/28/2024

gyptian Amulet in the Shape of Two Elephants, c. 3500–3300 BC.
📸 Metropolitan Museum of Art.

The “Bay Tree” egg; was presented to the Dowager Empress Maria Feodorovna by her son, Emperor Nicholas II, on Easter 191...
02/28/2024

The “Bay Tree” egg; was presented to the Dowager Empress Maria Feodorovna by her son, Emperor Nicholas II, on Easter 1911.⠀
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The motif of the evergreen laurel, symbolizing immortality and glory, was not chosen by chance - that year marked 30 years since Maria Feodorovna’s accession to the Russian throne.⠀
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The crown of the laurel tree is egg-shaped and consists of 325 leaves carved from Sayan jade - a stone that, due to its remarkable plastic properties, was especially loved by Carl Faberge and was used to create many of his company's masterpieces. A golden songbird is placed in the jade crown of the tree, whose mechanism was made so well that it works perfectly to this day.⠀
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Empress Maria Feodorovna had a weakness for birds, and Faberge, knowing this, often supplied Easter gifts intended for her with mechanical birds.
📸©️ Faberge Museum

Then vs Now :The Treasury of Athenians in Delphi, Greece : The Treasury of the Athenians is one of the most impressive b...
02/28/2024

Then vs Now :
The Treasury of Athenians in Delphi, Greece :
The Treasury of the Athenians is one of the most impressive buildings in the Sanctuary of Apollo in Delphi. The treasuries were actually buildings where the city-states used to safeguard their loots from wars and their offerings to god Apollo. Many treasuries existed around the temple, such as the Treasury of the Sifnians and the Boetians, but the most impressive treasury that survives till today is the Treasury of the Athenians.
This relatively small building hosted trophies from important military victories of the Athenians and also many items that had been offered to the temple. The Treasury was constructed at the beginning of the 5th Century BC and was the symbol either for the domination of democracy in Athens or for the victory of Athens over the Persians in the Marathon Battle.
The architectural style of the temple is Doric and the main construction material is the Parian marble. The external side had impressive reliefs depicting the adventures of Hercules and Theseus, while the internal space had hymns to Apollo carved on the walls and some of the most important political resolutions of the Athenians. This treasury was reconstructed in 1906 by the French Archaeological Institute with the donation of the municipality of Athens. Some friezes are hosted in the Archaeological Museum of Delphi.

Reconstruction of Minoan (3000-1600 BC) clothings; much of our knowledge of this clothing comes from artwork that has be...
02/27/2024

Reconstruction of Minoan (3000-1600 BC) clothings; much of our knowledge of this clothing comes from artwork that has been found at sites where Minoans lived (Crete)
📷 : Photos by Hellenic Glory (Melbourne’s Hellenic Museum,Australia)

Girl in the excavations of Pompeii, Filippo Palizzi, Oil On Canvas, 1870.
02/27/2024

Girl in the excavations of Pompeii, Filippo Palizzi, Oil On Canvas, 1870.

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