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Roman mosaic floor discovered under a vineyard in Negrar di Valpolicella, Veneto.

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We are sharing some of our favourite gifs each day this month for Antifa International’s anniversary. Today: Nazi monuments being destroyed after the defeat of Nazi Germany.

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"i asked chatgpt-" well i consulted the oracle at delphi and she told me that my kingdom will only fall when a mule becomes king of the medes

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clay figures from Bab edh-Dhra, near the Dead Sea

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Listen if the study of ancient humans doesn’t make you at least a little bit emotional idk what to say.

I started crying today at the museum because they had reconstructed the shoes of Otzi the iceman.

Either he or someone he knew who cared about him made these shoes out of grass and bear skin and twine and he was wearing them when he died over five thousand years ago.

And a Czech researcher and his students did reconstructions of these shoes and wore them to the same place where he died to test them out and they were like yep! These shoes are really cozy and comfy and didn’t give us blisters while hiking!

Is that not just the coolest shit ever????

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Amy Brier’s limestone carvings

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“The Abduction” (c. 15th century) by Unknown Artist ☀ The moment between earth and elsewhere, caught forever

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Gold and lapis lazuli earrings, Egypt, 18th Dynasty, 1555-1425 BC

from The Metropolitan Museum of Art

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One of my favorite historical tidbits is that Arab traders, for centuries, fooled Europeans into thinking cinnamon came from a rare, vicious and fearsome cinnamon bird.

The belief was so prevalent, in fact, that the mythical cinnamon bird shows up in the writings of Herodotus and Aristotle, all the way into medieval European manuscripts where it’s illustrated in all its fierce, cinnamony glory:

Pliny the Elder expressed skepticism of the bird in his writings, rightly assuming that it was a tale invented to keep control on the trade and prices by reducing competition, but the belief was already so widespread that it persisted in many areas into the early 1300’s.

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[guy with the Cant Focus Disorder] why the fuck can't I focus

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actually i’m not wasting academic potential i’m letting it marinate

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Testing out the new tumblr photoset feature. 

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You never hear Republicans say garbage like this when Dems have a trifecta (which they did as recently as 2022).

If you refuse to do your job, resign now.