Sagas Of The Supernatural

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Anubis: Lord of the dead

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Philae Temple Guardian Cat.
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🔸The Pazyryk Carpet, 400 BC.
The oldest almost intact carpet in the world is the Pazyryk carpet, which was found in 1949 in the Pazyryk Valley in Siberia, in the Altai Mountains. Excavated from the grave of a Scythian nobleman, the radiocarbon tests proved that carpet was produced in 5th Century BC. Although very old, the weaving technique used on this carpet is very advanced, and it shows a long tradition in carpet production.
Pazyryk carpet is 9.2 ft (283 cm) long and 6.5 ft (200 cm wide). Its pattern is colorful and lavishly decorated with a deep red central field. The inner main trimming has deer images, and the outer depicts men on horses. The middle is filled with rectangles decorated with X-shaped ornaments., stars and cross-shaped patterns. Trimmings divide the central and outer parts. This design with repetitive patterns is a standard in the oriental carpet production, found on many other rugs from these territories.
©️📸The Hermitage - St. Petersburg

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Roman cavalry mask, recovered from the site of the battle near Kalkriese, early 1st century AD. Photo via Museum and Park Kalkriese.

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Researchers have deciphered a word-hirila, which translates to "little sword" in Old Norse-written in runes on a 2,000-year-old iron knife recovered from a grave on Denmark"s island of Funen.
(Museum Odense)
To read the article, go to the link in our bio.
archaeology.org/news12074-240123-denmark-early-runes

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Walls Depicting Isis and Horus,
Temple of Philae
Aswan, Egypt

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Skull of an athlete with a gold wreath and a silver coin for Charon. From a Roman necropolis in Lato near Kamara, 1st century CE, part of the collection of the Archaeological Museum of Agios Nikolaos in Crete, Greece
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King Ramesses III with goddess Isis
Tomb of Prince Amun-her-khepeshef (QV55), Valley of the Queens, West Thebes.

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Public toilets in ancient Rome. Romans discussed politics, gossiped and made business deals in these toilets, called Latrina, which were used for a certain fee.

15/06/2024

🔸History of Sumer spans the 5th to 3rd millennia BC, in southern Mesopotamia and is taken to include the prehistoric Ubaid and Uruk periods.
Sumer was the region"s earliest known civilization and ended with the downfall of the Third Dynasty of Ur around 2004 BC.

15/06/2024

Funerary Bed in the Form of a Cow The cow may represent the goddess Hathor who is responsible for the resurrection of the deceased. The cow with a solar disk between the horns is a form often associated with the goddess Mehetweret, a celestial deity who plays an important part in the birth of the sun god. Tutankhamen Tomb, Egypt.

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🔸A Greek column in its original colors (Modern Reconstruction)
©️ Credits to original owner

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Side View of Limestone Bust of Queen Nefertiti, circa 1340.

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Roman helmet of a secutor – a kind of gladiator who usually fought against a retiarius. The object was found in the Ludus Gladiatorius barracks in Pompeii.

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The Cosquer cave is a Palaeolithic decorated cave, located in France, that contains numerous cave drawings dating back as far as 27,000 years BP. The cave has more than 200 parietal figures and is also the only decorated cave whose entrance opens under the sea
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Roman rock-crystal icosahedron (20-sided dice) used in fortune-telling. Each face has a Latin letter on it and a corresponding Roman numeral, then matched with pre-prepared oracle answers in a divination handbook. Currently at the Louvre.
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15/06/2024

Stele of the sculptor Bek with his wife Taheret
Bek or Bak (Egyptian for “Servant”) was the first chief royal sculptor during the reign of Pharaoh Akhenaten. His father Men held the same position under Akhenaten’s father Amenhotep III; his mother Roi was a woman from Heliopolis. Bek grew up in Heliopolis, an important cult center of Ra.
This is possibly the first self-portrait in history. The inscription of this stele also mentions him being taught by Akhenaten.
Amarna Period, New Kingdom, 18th Dynasty, reign of Akhenaten, ca. 1353-1336 BC.
Now in the Neues Museum, Berlin.

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Tomb of Ramses VI

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𝐁𝐫𝐢𝐥𝐥𝐢𝐚𝐧𝐭 𝐏𝐡𝐚𝐫𝐚𝐨𝐡 𝐀𝐤𝐡𝐞𝐧𝐚𝐭𝐞𝐧

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Two photos 150 years apart. Yılantaş Rock Tomb of the Phrygians, located in Afyon Göynüş Valley and dating back to the 7th century BC. The photo above was taken by Swedish photographer Guillaume Berggren in the 1870s. The other photo is from 2021.

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Le Chateau de la Reine Blanche,Piccardy France