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Photo of the ruins of ancient Assur with a ziggurat rising in the distance and low remains of walls in the foreground. It looks like sunset or sunrise with the soft, orange lighting. Photo by Mahmoud Fakhri

How to make perfume in 1230 BCE in the heartland of ancient Assyria.

First, you need to mix cane with cleansed water from the palace well of the city of Aššur (pronounced Ashur).

Second, you need to pour this mixture into a special vessel before adding...

This is what a critically endangered Red Wolf looks like. If we work together, we can save them 🐺

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A small glass fish form vessel made of blue cast glass decorated with yellow and white festoons. Details include a tail, dorsal fin, and front fins. The mouth is outlined in yellow. The eyes are made of white opaque glass circles with black glass pupils. Dimensions: (L) 14.1 cm x (W) x 7 cm x (D) 3.6 cm. It was found buried under the floor of a house at el-Amarna.

Fantastic fish-shaped glass cosmetic vessel!

From el-Amarna, Egypt, 14th century BC.

📷 British Museum www.britishmuseum.org/collection/o...

#Archaeology

In the illusory dream-like existence of samsara,

Amidst the unstable, mirage-like spectacle,

Free from attachment, strive towards the sublime Dharma.

It is the meaningful practice that embodies the essence.

By Kyabje Dilgo Khyentse Rinpoche

#Dharma #samsara

“Beavers always know best. The places where they build dams are always chosen just right—better than when we design it on paper,” said Jaroslav Obermajer." ##animism #NewAni

Worldly Way And Liberation, by Ajahn Chah Everything that you do must be done with clarity and awareness. When you see clearly, there will no longer be any need for endurance or for forcing yourself…

Buddhist read: Followers of the way: Our minds aren’t peaceful because of all our old habits. 'Worldly Way And Liberation', by Ajahn Chah

The photo shows a Roman iron stylus pen used to write on wax-filled wooden writing tablets. It has an inscription which runs along its length on four sides. The image shows the four lines of inscribed text which read: ‘ab urbe v[e]n[i] munus tibi gratum adf(e)ro
acul[eat]um ut habe[a]s memor[ia]m nostra(m)
rogo si fortuna dar[e]t quo possem
largius ut longa via ceu sacculus est (v)acuus’ ‘I have come from the City. I bring you a welcome gift with a sharp point that you may remember me.
I ask, if fortune allowed, that I might be able (to give) as generously as the way is long (and) as my purse is empty.’ Excavated in London by MOLA. Photo by Juan Jose Fuldain/MOLA

Some things never change!

A 2,000 year-old Roman souvenir pen with a joke inscription roughly equivalent to:

“I went to Rome and all I got you was this cheap pen!" 😂

Dated to about 70 AD, this iron stylus pen was found in London during excavations by MOLA. 📷 MOLA

#EpigraphyTuesday
#Archaeology

Ok, men… Dette er jo den typen berømmelse jeg alltid har drømt om!!!

Miljøpartiet De Grønne vil forby all hogst i naturskog Flere mener de nye kartene over norsk naturskog ikke er gode nok. Nå vil Miljøpartiet De Grønne forby all hogst i naturskog frem til de er kartlagt i feltet.

Konkret, logisk og biologisk nødvendig konsekvens av regjeringens naturskog-kart.

I dag foregår halvparten av all flatehogst i naturskog. ikke all denne skogen er like verdifull, men skogbruket ser ikke forskjell, og store miljøverdier tapes før de engang er kartlagt. www.nrk.no/rogaland/mil...

It took me more than 4 years to capture a scene I could only dream of. A magnificent Condor soars above the peaks of Argentina's Mount Fitz Roy, as they are spot lit in beautiful morning light. 🪶

#bluesky #photography #landscape #birds #nature
#landscapephotography #naturephotography #travel #scape

overskrift fra adressa: - Sykeste jeg har vært med på. Og jeg har tatt Spin Spider på Tusenfryd

jævlig fet ting å si

A fragmentary clay tablet with broken lines of text preserved. At the bottom is a multicoloured ruler showing that it is about 7cm wide. On a blank portion is written in ink upside down “K. 5968” and right-side up “k 9334”, meaning that these are two different fragments joined together to make a fragmentary whole.

I’ve spent most of my life steeped in anxiety, and one thing that made me feel less alone was knowing how unsurprisingly not new anxiety and related experiences are.

It’s in fragments, but this is one of many clay texts from ancient Mesopotamia that describes anxiety (possibly depression)

Word of the Day is one I keep posting at the end of the year, hoping its time will come.

‘Respair’, from the 16th century, is fresh hope, and a recovery from despair.

Here’s to a few drops of respair in 2025.

Word of the Day is ‘uhtcearu’ [ucht-kay-aru, with the 'ch' as in the Scottish ‘loch']:

Old English for ‘the sorrow before dawn', when you lie awake in the darkness and worries crowd your mind.

A group of researchers have recreated the clothing of medieval Nubian royalty and clergy from the wall paintings in the cathedral of Faras, which sits at the border of modern Egypt and Sudan.

Sjefen er det største problemet på jobb Ny rapport om arbeidslivet viser at ansatte har mindre innflytelse enn før. Og misnøyen med ledelsen øker.

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