Plaque with pharaonic figures flanking a sacred tree
Date: ca. 9th–8th century B.C.
Assyrian
Syria, probably from Arslan Tash (ancient Hadatu)
The Metropolitan Museum of Art
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centuriespast: Plaque with pharaonic figures flanking a sacred...
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Archaeological News: Swiss dolmen reveals rituals of the Neolithic
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thepolyvorecollection: Back Down South - Kings Of Leon by...
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whereibegin: The Osireion, Upper Egypt, behind the temple of...
The Osireion, Upper Egypt, behind the temple of Seti I at Abydos.
I was lucky enough to actually go down into the temple, and to also explore (somewhat) the third lesser-known temple at the ‘back’ of the Osireion. The Osireion is an Architectural anomaly in Egypt. It stones are comparable to only one other site; The Sphinx & Valley Temples. Blocks exceeding 150 tons lay together perfectly surviving Earthquakes and the like. There are also no ‘Egyptian’ inscriptions in this, or the Sphinx temples at all. Essentially Anonymous.
The temple is built about 100 feet lower than the temple of Seti I on the same site. This indicates that it would be much older. Not only that, Seti’s temple form’s an ‘L’ shape which is also anomalous for a Hypostle hall Temple. It appears Seti came across the Osireion and changed his building plan so as not to disturb an already-existing sacred site. Interesting stuff!
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Richard III’s injuries and how he died [Interactive]
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ancientart: Egyptian Baboon Mummy Coffin, between circa 380 and...
Egyptian Baboon Mummy Coffin, between circa 380 and circa 30 BC (Late Period-Greco-Roman), made of wood.
In the shape of a baboon, this coffin (now empty) contained the mummified animal intended as an offering to the god Thoth. Revered for his wisdom, Thoth was believed to be the inventor of speech and calculation and was patron of scribes. The baboon was one of his sacred incarnations. Made separately, the front and back of the coffin have four holes for pegs to join them.
Courtesy & currently located at the Walters Art Museum, USA
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benjaminparslow: Computational landmark / Stonehege
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Military archaeologists begin work at Edinburgh historic site
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waystrider: Severed Heads Were Sacrifices in Ancient...
Severed Heads Were Sacrifices in Ancient Mexico
Archaeologists find more than 150 skulls that were sacrificed to the rain Gods.
“Archaeologists have uncovered the remains of more than 150 skulls from an ancient shrine in central Mexico—evidence of one of the largest mass sacrifices of humans in pre-Hispanic Mesoamerica.
The skulls, many facing east, lay beneath a crude, slightly elevated mound of crushed stone on what was once an artificial island in a vast shallow lake, now completely dry.”NG publication: http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2013/13/130206-mexico—xaltocan-human-sacrifice-skulls-drought-archeology/
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ancientpeoples: Gravestone with a funerary banquet CE....
Gravestone with a funerary banquet
CE. 200-300
Syrian
In the mid-first century CE., Palmyra, a wealthy and elegant Syrian city located along the caravan routes linking the Parthian Near East with the Mediterranean ports of Roman Syria and Phoenicia, came under Roman control. During the following period of great prosperity, the Aramaean citizens of Palmyra adopted customs and modes of dress from both the Iranian Parthian world to the east and the Graeco-Roman west.
Palmyrenes constructed a series of large-scale funerary monuments. These structures, some of which were below ground, had interior walls that were cut away or constructed to form burial compartments in which the deceased, extended at full length, was placed. Limestone slabs with human busts in high relief sealed the rectangular openings of the compartments. These reliefs represented the “personality” or “soul” of the person interred and formed part of the wall decoration inside the tomb chamber. A banquet scene as depicted on this relief would have been displayed in a family tomb rather than that of an individual.(Source: The Metropolitan Museum of Art)
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Computerized ‘Rosetta Stone’ reconstructs ancient languages
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thesherd: Interesting interview with Mike Parker Pearson - an...
Interesting interview with Mike Parker Pearson - an archaeologist who works on Stonehenge (via Elfshot: Plans and Profiles: Mike Parker Pearson Researching Neolithic Life and Death at Stonehenge)
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propaedeuticist: Plain of Jars - ທົ່ງໄຫຫິນ
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mementomoriart: Memento mori (199 BEC - 55 CE) Bronze, Roman
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ERBIAN CAVE PRODUCES OLDEST HUMAN ANCESTOR IN THIS PART OF EUROPE
ERBIAN CAVE PRODUCES OLDEST HUMAN ANCESTOR IN THIS PART OF EUROPE:
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Explore Ancient Rock Art, Experience Guarani Culture!
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Protecting the endangered rock art of Paraguay
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archaicwonder: Dunollie Castle is a small ruin located on a...
Dunollie Castle is a small ruin located on a hill north of the town of Oban, on the west coast Scotland. There was a fortification on this high promontory in the days of the kingdom of Dál Riata which was the royal centre of the Cenél Loairn. Ewan MacDougall, the third chief of the MacDougalls, probably built a castle there in the 13th century. The existing castle ruins date from the 15th century.
The MacDougalls, the Lords of Lorne, were direct descendants of Somerled, Lord of the Isles, at a time when the Western Isles were part of Norway. Dougall, Somerled’s son held most of Argyll and also the islands of Mull, Lismore, Jura, Tiree, Coll and many others in the 12th century.
The MacDougalls lost the land after siding with MacDougall kinsmen, the Comyns, and fighting against Robert the Bruce. John Stewart of Lorne returned the estates to the clan.
The Marquis of Argyll captured the castle in 1644, but it was returned to the MacDougalls in 1661. In 1746, the MacDougalls abandoned Dunollie Castle and built Dunollie House just downhill from the castle ruins.
photo by hibbygeorge
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Archaeological News: A different take on Tut
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