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littlefindsforgot: Sansa’s necklace The Walters Museum
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sarcasticdecadence: Today in History: Birth of Lord Castlereagh...
Today in History: Birth of Lord Castlereagh (June 18, 1769 - August 12, 1822)
Lord Castlereagh was the War Secretary and Foreign Secretary of England during the Napoleonic Wars and represented England in the Congress of Vienna. He developed the idea of the Concert of Europe and presided over it as one of its leaders until his untimely death in 1822. In his native home in Northern Ireland, he is remembered for the success of the Act of Union in 1801.
Coincidentally, his birthday is on the same day the War of 1812 is declared on Great Britain. What a nice birthday gift the Americans gave to the Foreign Secretary of England in 1812.
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myhistoryblog: Votive Statue of a Priest - Cyprus, c. 500 BCE...
Votive Statue of a Priest - Cyprus, c. 500 BCE by xerxespersepolis
On Flickr.
In its structure and motif this larger-than-life-size statue of a priest, which was found in 1868 in a shrine near Pyla on Cyprus, displays the features characteristic of large Archaic-Greek sculpture. The statue embodies the style that flourished on Cyprus during the 6th century BC and which was composed of Greek, Egyptian and oriental elements.
Vienna, Kunsthistorisches Museum
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COLD AS LIFE - A Detroit Story Universal Warning Records,...
COLD AS LIFE - A Detroit Story
Universal Warning Records, kickstarter.com“Our goal for this feature length documentary is to continue to explore the decline of Detroit and the parallel reaction it created socially in the music scene of the city. Once called the Paris of the new world, Detroit was a hub in the industrial revolution, with some of the nation’s wealthiest companies and businesses spawning there, only now to be left in ruins.”
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arcticmuseum: Our interns have started their summer jobs with...
Our interns have started their summer jobs with us! Here, Alex and Meg heroically take on the task of photographing each page of over 20 of Ekblaw’s journals from the Crocker Land expedition.
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myhistoryblog: arched view 2 by melissaenderle on Flickr. Any...
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Just some light read before my trip to Israel...
Just some light read before my trip to Israel for excavation…
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More light reading, I will make sure to pack both for the trip.
More light reading, I will make sure to pack both for the trip.
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Archaeological News: Talisman of Ancient Googly-Eyed God Discovered
Archaeological News: Talisman of Ancient Googly-Eyed God Discovered:
A newly identified googly-eyed artifact may have been used by the ancient Egyptians to magically protect children and pregnant mothers from evil forces.
Made of faience, a delicate material that contains silica, the pale-green talisman of sorts dates to sometime in the first millennium B.C. It shows the dwarf god Bes with his tongue sticking out, eyes googly, wearing a crown of feathers. A hole at the top of the face was likely used to suspend it like a bell, while a second hole, used to hold the bell clapper, was apparently drilled into it in antiquity.
Carolyn Graves-Brown, a curator at the Egypt Centre, discovered the artifact in the collection of Woking College, the equivalent of a high school for juniors and seniors. The college has more than 50 little-studied Egyptian artifacts, which were recently lent to theEgypt Centre at Swansea University where they are being studied and documented.
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art-of-swords: Hunting Knife Combined with Wheellock Pistol By...
Hunting Knife Combined with Wheellock Pistol
- By Ambrosius Gemlich (German, Munich and Landshut, active 1520–50)
- Date: dated 1546
- Culture: German, Munich
- Medium: Steel, gold, staghorn, gilt bronze
- Dimensions: Length overall 18 1/4 in. ( 46.36 cm) Length barrel 12 3/8 in. ( 31.42 cm) Length blade 13 1/4 in. ( 33.66 cm) Caliber .28
- Classification: Combination Weapons
In the sixteenth century, wheellock pistols were often combined with swords, knives, axes, maces, spears, and even crossbows, which could be used in the event the pistol misfired.
Usually clumsy and impractical, combined weapons were nevertheless highly prized curiosities. On this example, the heavy, cleaverlike blade is etched with a calendar, the decorator’s name, and the date.
Source: Metropolitan Museum of Art
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aboutegypt: Egypt10_1220 (by wallacefsk) Nubia MuseumAswan,...
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openaccessarchaeology: New Open Access Article- Early Farmers:...
New Open Access Article- Early Farmers: The View from Archaeology and Science
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theatlantic: Study of the Day: Why Crowded Coffee Shops...
Study of the Day: Why Crowded Coffee Shops Actually Help Creative Thinking
The next time you’re stumped on a creative challenge, head to a bustling coffee shop, not the library. As the researchers write in their paper, “[I]nstead of burying oneself in a quiet room trying to figure out a solution, walking out of one’s comfort zone and getting into a relatively noisy environment may trigger the brain to think abstractly, and thus generate creative ideas.”
Read more. [Image: Global X/Flickr]
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neaq: The Core of Climate ChangeMarine biologists are studying...
neaq:
The Core of Climate Change
Marine biologists are studying core samples of coral hoping to find a history of climate change in the oceans. Check out this amazing post explaining the process and what they hope to find by counting the coral rings…
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alaskamuseum: Getting a tour of the Genomic Resources Lab at...
Getting a tour of the Genomic Resources Lab at the University of Alaska Museum of the North, one of the largest collections of frozen tissue samples from voucher specimens in the world.
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ohsoanthropological: Tim D. White and Yohannes Haile-Selassie...
Tim D. White and Yohannes Haile-Selassie at an excavation site in Ethiopia.
Credit: David L. Brill
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centuriespast: STORR, PaulTheocritus’ Cup1812-13Gilded...
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ancientart: Ancient Bali sculpture at the Asian Art Museum, San...
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