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04/05/2024

Europe’s oldest Map. Saint-Bélec slab is a 4,000-year-old carved stone fragment found in an ancient burial mound in France. 2150 A.D. possibly one of the oldest maps of any territory.

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04/04/2024

There is public laundry in Sicily which looks absolutely stunning. It was built in 1514 AD, in a small seaside town in Sicily called Cefalù, over a similar structure which was destroyed in order to redesign hydraulics and redirect soapy waters straight into sea. It has individual vats for soaping and scrubbing cloths, and large, communal ones for rinsing, where water flows through twenty-two cast-iron mouths most of which are shaped like lion heads.

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04/04/2024

04/04/2024

The anchor of a Mongol invasion ship, being lifted out of the sea near Takashima Island. Nagasaki, Japan, Kamakura period, 13th century

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04/04/2024

Illustration of King Tutankhamun

The last of his royal family to rule during the end of the 18th Dynasty during the New Kingdom of Egyptian history.

A print from Kings and Queens of Ancient Egypt, portraits by Winifred Brunton (South African, 1880-1959), Hodder and Stoughton, London, 1926.

04/04/2024

نِبِت - حت

04/03/2024

King Ramesses II on his chariot – Battle of Kadesh

New Kingdom, 19th Dynasty, ca. 1274 BC.
Relief from inside the Great Temple of Ramesses II at Abu Simbel.

The battle of Kadesh is one of the world’s largest chariot battles, fought beside the Orontes River, King Ramesses II sought to wrest Syria from the Hittites and recapture the Hittite-held city of Kadesh. There was a day of carnage as some 5,000 chariots charged into the fray, but no outright victor.

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04/03/2024

3000 year old petroglyph of a man running away from a big snake. With er****on. It is one of the many Rock carvings in Tanum, Sweden and was painted red so its easier for tourists to see.

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04/03/2024

A 2nd Century CE; Panties found in Trier, Germany.

Made of goatskin, they were tied with thongs on hips. It is unclear whether they are worn as underwear underneath clothing or whether they are acrobatics.

04/03/2024

Vase with a handle in the form of a goat!

- Gold and Silver
- Height 16.5 CM
Discoverd in Tell Basta (Bubastis) 1906
Reign of Ramesses lI

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04/03/2024

Pictured above is the marble lace neckerchief carved by French sculptor Louis-Philippe Mouchy (1734 - 1801), who masterfully created the marble statue in 1781.

The statue was commissioned as a posthumous tribute to the Duke of Montausier, Charles de Sainte-Maure. The nobleman was one of the guardians of the Great Dauphin of France, Louis, son and heir of the Sun King, Louis XIV.

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04/02/2024

A 2nd century CE Roman marble relief from the tomb of the Haterii, a family of builders who were involved in the construction of public monuments. The relief shows a human powered treadwheel crane which could lift 6000 kg when worked only by 2 men

04/02/2024

Queen of Egypt - Nefertari 🇪🇬

04/02/2024

This Roman Merchant Shipwreck was discovered off coast of Kefalonia, Greece. The 35m long ship was carrying about 6000 Amphorae (Terracotta Vases) that consisted of goods such as wine, olive oil, grains and other foodstuffs.

This massive ship sailed Mediterranean between 100 BC - 100 AD, transporting goods within Roman Empire. It is unknown why ship sank.

Shipwreck has potential to yield a wealth of information about shipping routes, trading, amphorae hull stowage and ship construction during that period

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03/28/2024

Dating from 1395, "The Crooked House" in Lavenham, Subury, England sits at the heart of Great Britain"s best-preserved medieval village. This is one of the wonkiest houses in Great Britain.

03/28/2024

Detail of the Outer Coffin of Henuttawy

The outer coffin lid of Henuttawy, intended to resemble a wrapped mummy, wears an elaborate pectoral topped by a cavetto cornice in the shape of a small shrine within which are two winged wadjet eyes, with suspended uraeus cobras holding ankhs. Below these, Horus falcons flank a central scarab that pushes a sun disk upward, an image of the rising sun and of rebirth.

The composition is similar to the Middle Kingdom pectoral of Sithathoriunet. At the sides of this pectoral are figures of Anubis, god of mummification, represented as a jackal wearing the crowns of Upper and Lower Egypt and holding empowering scepters.

Third Intermediate Period, 21st Dynasty, ca. 1000-945 BC. Now in the Metropolitan Museum of Art. 25.3.182a, b

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03/28/2024

تمثال للملك امنحتب الثالث يعود تاريخه إلى حوالي عام 1370 قبل الميلاد، وقد تم العثور عليه في محيط منطقة موت بالكرنك في صعيد مصر وهو الآن فى المتحف البريطاني بلندن.

03/27/2024

A Roman helmet of the Montefortino type pulled from the sea off Sicily, it is believed to have been worn by a soldier during the Battle of the Aegates of 241 B.C.

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