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a passage from Gilgamesh epic, pronounced in ancient Babylonian language

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Ostia was the coolest

i took a shot of gatorade at that bar. oh yeah.

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Iecur Placentinum

Liver of Piacenza - 2nd-3rd century BC

Fígado de Piacenza - sec. II-III a.C.

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Etruscan tomb, 530 BC

Rome, Museum Villa Giulia

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Olmec megalith

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Olmec Throne, La Venta, Tabasco, Mexico

1000-600 BCE

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Temple of Khonsu, Thebes

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Statues renversée de Sésostris à Thèbes (Egypte) - Photography by Maison Bonfils, albumen print ca. 1867-99

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This beautiful copper alloy diadem was created in what archaeologists call the Hallstatt Culture, a European Iron Age culture. It was made circa 750–500 BCE. The Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York, which owns the diadem, isn’t clear about precisely where it was discovered, but it’s from the Carpathian region.

(Source.)

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place new finds here at the end of the day

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From the Archaeology Museum in Orvieto

LOOK AT THE PUDGEY OWL

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Linguists Alwin Kloekhorst and Alexander Lubotsky from Leiden University made a great discovery this summer. They deciphered a few dozen inscriptions on pot shards found in Daskyleion (North-West Turkey) as Phrygian and Lydian, and thus proved the presence of the Phrygians and Lydians in that area.

Way cool.

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Munich, Museum antiker Kleinkunst

White-ground classical funerary lekythos with inner compartment for a token amount of oil (found in a grave at Oropos, near the Attic/Boeotian border) 

The messenger god Hermes, bearded but youthful, sits on the rocky shores of the river Styx. He wears his travelling hat and cloak, but is bare foot. Holding his caduceus in his left hand, he beckons with his right to a woman who wears a heavy mantle over a lighter chiton and adjusts a ‘crown’ on her head. She stands on the ground, already enveloped by the rocks. In the background, behind the rocks, a shaft-like tomb on a stepped base has been decked with ribbons. 

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the things I would do to see this in person

The Pergamon Altar, c. 200-150 B.C. Pergamon Museum, Berlin

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The first ever Etruscan pyramids have been located underneath a wine cellar in the city of Orvieto in central Italy, according to a team of U.S. and Italian archaeologists.

Carved into the rock of the tufa plateau —a sedimentary area that is a result of volcanic activity — on which the city stands, the subterranean structures were largely filled. Only the top-most modern layer was visible.

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The lewd graffiti of ancient Pompeii

Thanks to the volcanic ash that destroyed the city of Pompeii nearly overnight, modern archaeologists have been given a very preserved look at the lives of the people of ancient Rome, and that includes some of the lewd graffiti that in other places has long since been washed away.

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