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Some fictional characters are real

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Metal plague of a stag 

7.6 cm high, 9.5 cm wide (3 x 3 3/4 inch.)

Kazakhstan, 6th - 5th century BC. 

Source: Metropolitan Museum

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Comic books back in the day really blew

Neo-Assyrian Glazed Terracotta Tile from Nimrud (Kalhu), Iraq, c. 883-859 BC

A clue to the colour scheme of an ancient palace:

This glazed tile was found by the excavator Henry Layard at the Assyrian city of Nimrud. Along with the stone reliefs, it was part of the decorative scheme of the royal palace, although few examples survived Nimrud’s destruction in the seventh century BC.

This example depicts an Assyrian king, possibly Ashurnasirpal II (reigned 883-859 BC), accompanied by his bodyguard and attendants. It was probably part of a sequence showing the king as triumphant warrior and hunter. Such tiles provide a clue to the kind of colour scheme used for the relief panels. The decoration was executed in yellow, black and green (perhaps originally red) paint. These were made from natural materials.

It is likely that most major Assyrian buildings had paintwork at least in the reception rooms. Ashurnasirpal recorded that he had represented his triumphs in paintings. There were murals on the walls above the carved stone panels and the ceilings were also painted.

Glazed bricks are mentioned first in the second half of the second millennium BC when the mastery of the mechanical properties of glass had become known.

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Rovinj, Croatia.

vesnazivcic

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I remember this place.  It’s beautiful

Kalna, West Bengal: This mid-18th century Krishna Chandraji temple is renowned for its intricate and exquisite terracotta decoration. Constructed by the Maharajas of Burdhawan, the temple city of Kalna - situated on the banks of the Bhagirathi river - is mainly a homage to Goddess Kali but it also worships Shiva - her consort god - as exemplified by the town’s stunning 108 Shiva temples.

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View from the sea to the mountains. Izola, Slovenia. Photo by Jost Gantar

by erzor

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Ceramics double spout bottle 

It is 15.9 cm high and 15.9 cm wide ( 6 1/4 x 6 1/4 inch.) 

Peru, Nasca Culture, 2nd - 4th century AD. 

Source: Metropolitan Museum

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oh so that’s what it looked like.  It’s more intimidating from the ground.  Also, this is only half of it. Also, there were like five routes.  Other than that, solid work.

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This asshole never did make things right.

Babylonian era problems. (photo via tbc34)

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This is a picture from the Curiosity Rover on Mars showing Earth from the Perspective of Mars. You are literally looking at your home from the Perspective of another planet. Epic times indeed

Okay, THAT'S new.  Glad I was around for this.

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Wh... I'm sorry, I didn't think this was news.  We put it in paintings and everything.

Lars Anderson: A New Level of Archery

Lars Anderson studied historical manuals and rediscovered an ancient and extremely fast way of firing arrows from a bow, making icons like Legolas and Katniss look like slugs.

He trained himself to be able to perform such feats as firing three arrows in less than a second, catching an arrow and firing it back, splitting an oncoming arrow in two, and basically debunking all the lies hollywood has fed us about “ultimate archery skills”

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Palinurus: malu’ clandestinus est amor, damnumst merum. Phaedromus: est hercle ita ut tu dicis. Palinurus: iamne ea fert iugum? Phaedromus: tam a me pudica est quasi soror mea sit, nisi si est osculando quippiam impudicior. Palinurus: semper tu scito, flamma fumo est proxuma; fumo comburi nil potest, flamma potest. qui e nuce nuculeum esse volt, frangit nucem: qui volt cubare, pandit saltum saviis. Phaedromus: at illa ést pudica neque dum cubitat cum viris. Palinurus: credam, pudor si quoiquam lenoni siet.

Palinurus: Hidden love is an evil, it is pure ruin.

Phaedromus: By Hercules, it is as you say.

Palinurus: Has she ‘bore the yoke’ yet?

Phaedromus: For me she is as chaste as if she were my own sister, unless she is in any way more unchaste for kissing.

Palinurus: Know always, where there is smoke there is fire; nothing can be burned with smoke, but can be burned by flames. He who wants to eat the kernel out of the nut, breaks the nut: he who wants to have sex, spreads the narrow pass with kisses.

Phaedromus: But she is chaste and has not yet slept with men!

Palinurus: I’d believe it, if a pimp possessed any decency.

– Plautus’ Curculio, 49-58

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I know it doesn't seem like it, but this was fucking hilarious in its day

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This is gorgeous

Spherical Astrolabe, Museum of the History of Science, 1480 - 1481. This astrolabe is made of brass with the inscriptions, hour-lines, meridians and circles of altitude in silver; the rotating star map is made of brass, laminated with silver on the ecliptic and equatorial circles

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A ROMAN MARBLE TORSO OF VENUS 

CIRCA 1ST-2ND CENTURY A.D. 

The goddess depicted nude, originally standing with her weight on her left leg, her right slightly advanced, her torso with a fleshy paunch along her abdomen and a narrow waist, her left arm raised outward, her head turned sharply to her left, with long tresses of corkscrew curls framing her neck

8½ in. (21.6 cm.) high 

via > christies.com

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 hope they do it.  These things were delicious.

Can the long-extinct woolly mammoth be cloned? Scientists working in Siberia may be able to clone the mammoth by sequencing the preserved mammoth’s genome and grafting on elephant DNA.

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Go on, pick up a copy.

First Folio: Pirates, Succubi and Madmen is the first anthology of Immortal Chronicles stories.  Three novellas for the price of a novel.

Pick up a copy!

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I saw one of these in the 1200's (I think).  I always wanted one.

A fine example of a barong, a short leaf-shaped sword, forged and used by Muslim tribes from the Southern Philippines. This one is from the Tausug tribe, late 1800s to early 1900s.