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A 4,500-year-old Egyptian dress was painstakingly reassembled from approximately 7,000 beads found in an undisturbed tomb in Giza, Egypt. The dress is thought to have belonged to a female contemporary of King Khufu (2589-2566 BC). While the original strings had disintegrated over the years, the beads were still in their original position, allowing for an accurate reconstruction. Although the color of the beads had faded, they were originally blue and turquoise. Initially believed to have been worn for a dancing ritual, the dress's heavy weight suggests that it may have been used during funerals, according to archaeologists.

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Portfolio in Collaboration with Zak Krevitt for A Part Magazine

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(via Pin on Products   || Curated with love by yogadaily) 

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“…and Morocco spun in a recline of tangerine branches and rosy dreams of Seville. Your missteps were there between shadow and darkness and I saw you, alone, dreaming. I watched a smile rise and colour you with sunset, nourishing the darkness with the hues of Rabat, a rainbow-coloured fountain square from the evenings of Granada.”

— Saadi Youssef, from ‘The Ends of the African North’, Without an Alphabet, Without a Face: Selected Poems (trans. Khaled Mattawa)

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“As many lovers of the fierce feminine can attest, once the ‘test’ has been passed and the lover has shown his or her willingness to hang steady in the face of terror, the goddess will reveal that behind all her forms is love itself—love that reveals itself as the very substance of the universe.”

— Sally Kempton, Awakening Shakti: The Transformative Power of the Goddesses of Yoga

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“His eyes are like doves by the water streams, washed in milk. mounted like jewels. His cheeks are like beds of spice yielding perfume.”

— Song of Songs, 5:12-13

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Your glance sets it on fire, and its fruits of shade are blood oranges and pomegranates of flame

– Octavio Paz, A Tree Within  (via lachantefleurie)

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Rose-ringed Parakeet (Psittacula krameri), family Psittaculidae, order Psittaciformes, India

Photograph by Soumen Mitra

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Ancient spiral serpent bracelet found in Pompeii Vs the Bulgari Serpenti bracelet (via the New York Public Library)