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Dura-Europos Synagogue from eastern Syria, ca. 244 CE. This three-quarter-sized reproduction is on permanent exhibition at the Jewish Museum in New York City.

Dura-Europos is located on the west bank of the Euphrates River, close to the modern location of Qualat al Salihiya. It was a city populated by many different ethnicities at the “crossroads” of the ancient world: the border of the Roman Empire in the first centuries of the Common Era. For over 1,700 years, the site of the ancient synagogue was hidden by sand and embankments in the dry climate of the area, preserving it exceptionally well to enable posterity to study its art and history in depth. The archaeologist Clark Hopkins was greatly surprised when, in the fall of 1932, he saw for the first time the paintings of the synagogue after the dirt had been cleared: “It was a scene like a dream! In the infinite space of clear blue sky and bare gray desert, there was a miracle taking place, an oasis of painting springing up from the dull earth.”

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Lover’s eye pendant miniature, watercolor on ivory within a gold frame, English, ca. 1800 [1800x1320]

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Jews praying, Tehran, Iran, 1992

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Goats shelter in Mawsynram bus stop. Amos Chapple

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Sang Woo Kim

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Geldingaldasgos fissure in Iceland. Photo by Serena Dzenis, 2021

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via schulzmuseum

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fragments of time, 1st century B.C - 200 A.D

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title cards in The Green Knight

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what are rats doing so many small sniffs for. just do one big one and move on girl

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 Kiyoshi Saito, Cows, 1961

Woodblock print

titled in pencil in Roman print 

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best advice i ever got as a writer was to pick a hobby that i hated more than writing and stick with it. i’m a runner now and it’s miserable and i Hate It and writing is so lovely in comparison. bonus: i’m in excellent shape and running gives you a lot of time to think about writing. i’ve solved a lot of plot complications while running.

This is such funny advice. Writing is so excruciating, you gotta take up Self Torture so that writing feels like a fun little break 😭