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Sounds like Axios have released their new mission statement.
A medium shot of a woman in a high, white conical hat with a peacock feather, wearing a blue and white striped garment and white gloves. She holds thin white threads connected to spindles, posed against a pale wall with an ornate, gilded Baroque frame featuring a cherub behind her.
A wide, symmetrical shot of a sparse, cream-colored room with two small arched windows. A long, sheer blue fabric drapes from a golden frame on the back wall across the floor toward a prayer rug. A wooden stand and various ritualistic objects are scattered across the patterned white floor.
A highly stylized, theatrical composition against a black background. On an elevated platform, a man lies horizontally while figures in ornate costumes pose around him. Below, a man in a black robe stands next to a llama resting on hay, with various candles and a patterned textile in the center.
Three people in traditional, ornate Georgian or Armenian costumes stand on a dry, dirt slope. The central figure holds a decorative blue umbrella; the figure on the left holds a rifle and a curved sword, and the figure on the right holds two golden spheres. Scattered animal pelts lie on the ground behind them.
THE COLOR OF POMEGRANATES (1969) ๐ค A breathtaking fusion of poetry, ethnography, and cinema, Sergei Parajanovโs masterwork overflows with unforgettable images and sounds. ๐ค Now playing on the Criterion Channel!
These women were Golden Age masters โ why have they been ignored by art historians?
An ambitious exhibition highlights the glory of Low Countries artists still ripe for rediscovery, centuries after their first fame
by Kristina Foster for @financialtimes.com
www.ft.com/content/7a53...
Temple of Hercules, Cori, plan, elevation; portal, details; Doric order, details (recto) St. Peter's, drum, section (verso) (early to mid-16th century) by Anonymous, French, 16th century.
Temple of Hercules, Cori, plan, elevation; portal, details; Doric order, details (recto) St. Peter's, drum, section (verso) (early to mid-16th century)
Creator: Anonymous, French, 16th century
๐๏ธ The Metropolitan Museum of Art (object 360465)
#MuseumObjects #MetropolitanMuseumOfArt #TheMet
Some of the most beautiful hand-drawn diagrams i've ever seen. Turkish "Justice Gazette", 1920, artist: Cerรฎde-i Adliyye.
Source [substack] casualarchivist.substack.com/p/poetic-jus...
#tรผrkiye #infographics #stunning
A curved light brown flint knife held up on a museum stand
For #FindsFriday here's a fabulous flint knife found in the tomb of King Semerkhet at Abydos, Egypt
Semerkhet was one of the earliest Pharaohs who lived around 2900 BC!
๐ธ Mine
It's now in the Fitzwilliam Museum in Cambridge
#archaeology #museums #ancientegypt #photooftheday ๐บ
My photo shows the front of a warm-yellow coloured Minoan clay flask, hand painted in black with a frontally depicted octopus. The flask measures 27 cm (about 10.5 inches) in height. It has a short spout at the top with a small loop handle at either side. The octopus is swimming diagonally with its eight writhing, sucker-lined arms covering the whole surface of the flask. It stares out at the viewer with wide, almost cartoon-like eyes. Additional motifs include sea urchins, tritons, small rocks and seaweed. Minoan decoration depicting sea motifs is known by scholars as the โMarine Styleโ. The flask was excavated in 1903 at a Bronze Age settlement site at Palaikastro. The Palaikastro excavations, carried out between 1902 and 1906, were run by R. Bosanquet and R.M. Dawkins from the British School of Athens. The flask is part of the collections at Heraklion Archaeological Museum, Heraklion, Crete.
Marvellous 3,500 year-old Minoan clay flask decorated with a wide-eyed octopus ๐โค๏ธ
Excavated in 1903 from a Bronze Age settlement site at Palaikastro, Crete.
Heraklion Archaeological Museum ๐ท by me
#Archaeology
The subject of the figural decoration of this hydria (water jar) is Herakles and Iolaos slaying the Hydra. Painted in black figure, the scene occupies the upper register on the body of the vessel between the two side handles. Herakles approaches from the right grasping one of the heads of the nine-headed, bearded Hydra with his left hand and raising his club with his right. Herakles is armored in a corslet and greaves. To his right, a large crab pinches Herakles' heel. Iolaos rushes forward from the left grasping one of the Hydra heads with his left hand and preparing to cut it off with the sickle he brandishes in his right. Underneath Iolaos is a small fire. On the reverse of the vessel, two sphinxes flank the vertical back handle, striding away from the center. Etruscan, from Caere, Etruria, about 520-510 BCE. Attributed to the Eagle Painter (Greek, Caeretan, acitve 530-500 BCE). Getty Villa, Pacific Palisades-Malibu, California (83.AE.346)
The Legion of Honor Museum in San Francisco will be hosting the exhibition โThe Etruscans: From the Heart of Ancient Italyโ, from 2 May-20 September of this year. Over 200 pieces, promising to be a comprehensive exhibition on #Etruscan art and culture. ๐บ ๐ธ me
www.famsf.org/exhibitions/...
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Extraordinary find pushes back date of earliest writing. I think it'll get pushed further & further back.
www.newscientist.com/article/2516...
Emery Molyneux's first printed terrestrial globe
Englands first printed-globe maker. Emery Molyneux #histsci #histtech
thonyc.wordpress.com/2026/02/25/e...
The question of โis it a homininโ is much less relevant than it was 20 years ago.
โBut in the period between 8 million and 5 million years ago, the genetic evidence suggests the ancestral populations were mixing with each other, occasionally exchanging DNA.โ
www.johnhawks.net/p/how-sahela...
In the ruins of Hattusa, once capital city of the Hittite Kingdom (1650-1180 BC), located near Boฤazkale in Tรผrkiye
Jadeite in this sized portion is $5,650 per carat valuation.
Size 1.3โx1.3โ cubed approximation
1.3^2=1.69 cubic feet of space
1.69 cubic feet of space jadeite equivalent 355โ363 pound
Scientists โonly just scratched the surfaceโ of research on Stone Age marks on artefacts bit.ly/4qTX8nQ either a great or an unfortunate cliche!
Fascinating discovery - and a further reminder that people 40,000 years ago and more were just as smart, just as creative and innovative, as we are.
Lots to #Unlearn about the past
phys.org/news/2026-02...
A Pictorial History of Africa: Insights from Ancient Figurative Art.
www.africanhistoryextra.com/p/a-pictoria...
Panda erasure!
Jousting cheque relating to one contest at the Field of the Cloth of Gold June 1520. Two vellum leaves. The cheque (top of fol. 1) gives the names of challengers and defenders and is accompanied by the arms of Francis I of France I and Henry VIII, with the collars of the Orders of St Michael and the Garter, respectively, followed by emblazoned shields of French and English nobility (fols. 1-2v), not all identified.
This jousting cheque relates to one of the contests at the Field of the Cloth of Gold, June 1520.
Working as designed.
A visitor wearing headphones sits facing a white exhibition wall at the site of the former German Nazi concentration and extermination camp Auschwitz. The wall displays a quotation by former prisoner Jakub Wolman in Polish, English, and Hebrew.
"The worst thing was that a person was always lonely in that crowd. The faces changed so rapidly, people died so rapidly, that there was no way to pick out some face and get to know it"
(Jakub Wolman)
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Photo: https://www.instagram.com/liceum_andrychow/
In 1507, the German mapmaker Martin Waldseemรผller coined the term โAmericaโ in honor of the Florentine adventurer Amerigo Vespucci, and placed it on a world map.
In 2007, the Library of Congress paid $10 million dollars for the map. But "America" here didn't refer any part of the US.
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1/ A thread on my new article, which I hope makes a few interesting points. First, thereโs a need to understand the complexity of how archaeological knowledge travelled and was made at a time of huge change in the world (post-WW2). Are we really so confident in confining that knowledge toโฆ
Mayan effigy incense burner known as the Scribe of Mayapรกn, Yucatรกn, 1200 and 1450 CE. It is a deity related to the monkey-man scribe, a sacred figure in Mayan culture considered a bearer of wisdom and knowledge. Its left hand holds a snail-shaped ink holder, its right arm is a knotted serpent.
This might be an astonishing breakthrough โ yet to be tested in humans, but what potential!
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
โHell-heronโ dinosaur discovered in the central Sahara
A UChicago-led team unearthed โSpinosaurus mirabilis,โ a fish-eating giant and the first new species of its kind in a century, where nothing like it was supposed to exist
news.uchicago.edu/story/hell-h...
soft chuckles energy
Des artรฉfacts รฉgyptiens pillรฉs dans un musรฉe d'Australie retrouvรฉs le jour suivant le vol par la police
www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/p...
Dinosaurs and Space and Pirates.
That is all.
