Would less productivity be better for America?
A less ‘efficient’ economy makes room for real gains in quality of life and health, including green jobs, artists and ‘helping’ professions.
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mothernaturenetwork: Would less productivity be better for...
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allmesopotamia: Iraqi architects warn of neglected heritage...
Iraqi architects warn of neglected heritage sites
Read details at: http://english.alarabiya.net/articles/2012/06/05/218716.html
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archaeology: Gnawed Roman skeleton that inspired Sylvia Plath...
Gnawed Roman skeleton that inspired Sylvia Plath poem goes on display
The skeleton of a Roman woman and the bones of the mouse and shrew that gnawed her ankle in her coffin, inspiring one of Sylvia Plath’s most haunting poems, have gone on display.
Plath saw the massive stone sarcophagus and its contents soon after it was excavated in the 1950s, when she was a student at Cambridge.
Staff at the university’s Museum of Archaeology and Anthropologymounted the rodent bones on a piece of card – also on display again – and showed them in the coffin alongside the remains of the middle-aged woman, which is grimacing as if in pain.
The viewing prompted Plath’s 1957 poem All the Dead Dears, in which she describes “this antique museum-cased lady” and the “gimcrack” bones of the rodents “that battened for a day on her ankle-bone”, and fears that the “barnacle dead”, strangers or members of her family will drag her down and suck her life away. Six years later, the poet killed herself.
The sarcophagus, with its inner lead coffin, was one of a group of high-status burials discovered by chance by builders clearing land for a housing estate at Arbury, on the outskirts of Cambridge.
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"It’s important to understand that the ancient Maya predicted the world would continue. That was..."
“It’s important to understand that the ancient Maya predicted the world would continue. That was their point. They didn’t predict the end of the world. There would be cycles, new beginnings - but never endings.”
- William Saturno
“Explorers Journal” / National Geographic
June 2012 Issue (via kmcaliva)
- William Saturno
“Explorers Journal” / National Geographic
June 2012 Issue (via kmcaliva)
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National Trust for Historic Preservation puts America's historic post office buildings on 'most endangered' list
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lostinhistory: archaeologistforhire: vintagemarlene: Ancient...
Ancient Egyptian fashion adapted into modern swimsuits, (Vogue, 1956)
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dead-men-talking: fuckyeahforensics: Left side of a...
Left side of a skull
Cervical (neck) vertebrae are still articulated.
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fuckyeahforensics: Search technique for looking for remains
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kabwe1: Full assimilation of the first coccygeal vertebrae in...
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18thcenturylove: fuckayehistory: Double-bit Key, 18th...
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mythologyofblue: Harry Burton, from Tutankhamun: Anatomy of an...
Harry Burton, from Tutankhamun: Anatomy of an Excavation, The Griffith Institute The Howard Carter Archives
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victusinveritas: dwellerinthelibrary: judasinvictus: Living...
Living hieroglyph
Just above the sparrow is the word “forever”.
Birds, forever.
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Bar-Kokhba Period Gold and Silver Hoard Discovered
Bar-Kokhba Period Gold and Silver Hoard Discovered:
Israeli archaeologists have unearthed a spectacular 2000-year-old gold and silver hoard in the Qiryat Gat region.
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mediumaevum: ARCHAEOLOGISTS in Bulgaria unearthed two skeletons...
ARCHAEOLOGISTS in Bulgaria unearthed two skeletons from the Middle Ages pierced through the chest with iron rods to keep them from turning into vampires, the head of the history museum said today.
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ekaro9: (via New discovery at early Islamic site in Jordan:...
(via New discovery at early Islamic site in Jordan: Uncovered inscription reveals name of Umayyad prince)
I can only read the first half of the first line and the last two words of the second line.
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"It’s pot sherds, not shards! Christ."
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mythsandfolklore: Ankou is a personification of...
Ankou is a personification of death in Breton mythology as well as in Cornish and Norman French folklore.
Ankou is also known as “Aräwn”
The Ankou is the henchman of Death (oberour ar maro) and he is also known as the grave yard watcher, they said that he protects the graveyard and the souls around it for some unknown reason and he collects the lost souls on his land. The last dead of the year, in each parish, becomes the Ankou of his parish for all of the following year. When there has been, in a year, more deaths than usual, one says about the Ankou:- War ma fé, heman zo eun Anko drouk. (“on my faith, this one is a nasty Ankou”
Every parish in Brittany is said to have its own Ankou. In Breton tradition, the squealing of railway wheels outside of one’s home is supposed to be Karrigell an Ankou or The Wheelbarrow of Ankou. Similarly, the cry of the owl is referred to as Labous an Ankou or The Death Bird. The Ankou is also found on the baptismal font at La Martyre where he is shown holding a human head.
In Ireland the proverb When the Ankou comes, he will not go away empty relates to the legend.
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"No, not like Indiana Jones."
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Cyprus condemns US-based Biblical Archaeology Society’s planned trip to breakaway north
Cyprus condemns US-based Biblical Archaeology Society’s planned trip to breakaway north:
NICOSIA, Cyprus — Cyprus has condemned plans by a group from the U.S.-based Biblical Archaeology Society to travel to the ethnically split island through its breakaway north.
Cyprus’ Foreign Ministry said in a statement on its website Wednesday that the group’s planned arrival on June 11 through Turkish-dominated north would breach Cypriot and international law and be “inconsistent with scholarly ethics.” It appealed to the group to amend its itinerary.
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The sorry fate of tech pioneer Halsey Minor and historic Virginia estate Carter’s Grove
The sorry fate of tech pioneer Halsey Minor and historic Virginia estate Carter’s Grove:
It was reputed to be America’s loveliest Colonial-era plantation house, a jewel of Georgian architecture. Its interiors, with opulent walnut and yellow pine paneling, parquetry and grand staircase — the work of a master joiner summoned to Colonial Virginia from England — are lauded in its National Historic Landmark paperwork as the most beautiful in the South.
For the better part of three centuries, Carter’s Grove rested serenely on the northern bank of the James River. It was built in 1750 by Carter Burwell, grandson of Robert “King” Carter, the English colony’s early land baron, to awe visitors with physical evidence of the bountiful riches that could be wrung from the New World wilderness.
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