#12th century bc

[treasures-and-beauty]

Dragon head finial, 11th-14th century, Iran

#finial #dragon #metalwork #11th century bc #12th century bc #13th century #14th century #renaissance #iran #persia #middle east

[souredfigs]

Me,a starstruck 15 year old reading the Odyssey for the first time : *sighs* wish I was born in 12th century BCE so I could see Troy and-

The fucking Sea people: BRING US THE GODDAMN WARSHIPS

#pLEASE #the sea people theory haunts me in my dreams #keeps me up at night #their origins are highly disputed and we can never put exactly where they emerged from but they wrecked HAVOC #towards the end of the bronze age #egypt under ramses iii was only able to defend itself theres an entire depiction of the battle that was found #they basically destoryed so many major cities including troy #we know this becuase theres a layer of charcoal in thr ruins of troy #when you think about it actually #its very easy to see how homer wrote the illiad and odyssey #because he grew up during the dark ages of 400 years where he was surrounded by these ruins #and he was like “fuck it might as well write a fanfic” #okay #i will shut up #homer #the illiad #the odyssey #bronze age civilisation #12th century bc #sea people theory #and vampy ranting about history

[fuckyeahcostumedramas]

Orlando Bloom as Paris & Diane Kruger as Helen in Troy (Film, 2004).

#orlando bloom #Diane Kruger #troy #perioddramaedit #paris #helen #12th Century BC #bob ringwood

[dejahisashmom]

Aphrodite: The True Origins of the Greek Goddess of Love, Sex, and Beauty | Ancient Origins

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#12th century BC #Adonis #Aeneas #Anchises #Ancient Greece #Aphrodite #Aphrodite Pandemos #Aphrodite Urania #apple #Ares #Ashtart #Astarte #Crete #Cupid #Cyprus #Cytherea #Dione #Dionysus #Dios #Dove #Dumuzi #Gaia #Girdle #Greek Pantheon #Helen #Hephaestus #Hera #Hermes #Hesiod #Homer

[dahliahere]

Illustration of the Sea Peoples by Giuseppe Rava

The Sea Peoples were a group of seafaring people that attacked countries like Egypt, Syria, Greece, Cyprus, Palestine, Lebanon, Turkey, and Libya before and during the Late Bronze Age collapse from 1200-900 BCE. Their origins are unknown but it is theorized that they were of multiple ethnicities who formed a seafaring group that was not affiliated with any specific area.

#sea people #bronze age collapse #bronze age #12th century bc #history

[eastwestimage]

Zun vessel with ram and snake decoration, Shang dynasty (12–11th century BC). Likely of provincial origin, China.

"These rams' heads or snakes' heads with horns, as well the legs of the vessel, were made separately and then incorporated or cast into the original model. The ram's head (zun) with four horned heads separated by dragons' heads, today in the historical museum of Beijing, required 21 individual steps from the casting of its parts through to completion."

From "The Art of East Asia" by Gabriele Fahr-Becker, published in 2006.

#Vessel #11th century BC #12th century BC #China #Bronze #Object

[mintflavouredwhump]

A whumpee decides to visit their friend's hometown but fall sick due to food poisoning. Due to a lack of proper medical services, they're forced to pull through with just basic care and some medicine from the local pharmacy.

At some point, the whumpee is so weak with illness that one of their friends has to check their pulse every now and then to make sure that they're still breathing.

#fun fact this actually happened to my father #he told us what happened only when he came back bc he didn't want to scare us #he managed to recover really quick as one of his friends is really knowledgeable about a lot of sicknesses and how to cure them #another fun fact is that my father's friend's hometown is so old that according to him it look like you've stepped into the 12th century #food poisoning #food poisoning whump #sickness whump #travel whump #whump #cw illness #tw illness #tw near death #tw near death experience #cw near death experience #tw whump #whump prompts #whump writing #whump scenario #whump inspiration #ides of whump

[merrymorningofmay]

man i love medieval theology

#not gonna full-time study it but i love their attitude it's such a mix of whimsy and down to earthness #this is an early 12th century catechesis (kinda. they didn't use the word at the time) btw #and the pdf is like this bc apparently the only modern english translation is a masters thesis by Some Guy #yes i need this for one (1) sentence in a fic #mari rambles

[thedreadvampy]

just like. bit late to the TMA2 party here but casual reminder that if you stay on that thing where you keep looking for throughlines and Clever Thematic Links between Mechanisms albums and Magnus Archiveses I will come to your house and beat you around the head with a 2x4 painted with the words THERE WERE NINE PEOPLE WHO WROTE THOSE ALBUMS

#red said #the mechanisms #reminded of this bc hereward just came up on shuffle and i remembered the multiple people being like #WHAT IS JONNY TRYING TO SAY BY SAYING #'HE LOVED HIS FRIEND MARTIN ' HMMMMM #and the answer is nothing #first of all bc i don't think Jonny was actually involved in Hereward although i may be mistaken #but mostly bc the person who decided that Hereward's servant who he loved was called Martin was a fucking. 12th century monk. you fools. #IT'S IN THE GESTA HEREWARDI IT PREDATES TMA BY ALMOST A MILLENNIUM #actually Martin might be a Kingsley invention I've never read the gesta herewardi I'm not a nerd #but that's still almost 200 years pre tma so the point stands #ANYWAY #that's not really the point the point is that people keep acting like there's some meaning to the parallels between Bifrost and TMA speci #specifically. and that may be true but that's not some master plan by Jonny because JONNY DID NOT WRITE THE BIFROST INCIDENT #Jonny wrote HIS PARTS in the Bifrost Incident but the rest of the band wrote THEIR parts and the story was mostly not Jonny's #so no he wasn't laying some masterful seeds and no they don't take place in the same universe #and no he's not the Genius Responsible For The Mechanisms it was a COLLABORATIVE PROJECT #with at least 4 or 5 ppl cocreating the bulk of each story and all members of the band putting a lot of themselves and their ideas in #and it is real fuckin grating having it framed as Jonny's Great Work when every person in that band had a similar level of creative input #Jonny's great. so are the other 8 people who made the albums

[angevinyaoiz]

Philip II Augustus, or as described in someone's tags, one of the "top 10 most punchable historical figures. Unfortunately. He is also extremely entertaining."

Philip was the first to style himself King of France rather than King of the Franks. he is known for his role in the Third Crusade and tumultuous relationships and manouvers against Henry II, Richard I, and John I of England, eventually resulting in regaining the Angevin Empire's territories in France. Bertran de Born early on derided some of his political and military decisions as being cowardly in some contemporary poems (a "lamb" against Richard's "lion"). However, later writings described him as being "more cunning than a fox," and as one who loved to "provoke discord" amongst men who resisted him. He also seems to have done a lot of things that have been puzzling for some historians, such as

While an notable figure in French history obviously, in my perusals he seems to rarely ever pop up in mainstream recent anglophone media as a major character, but when he does at all it seems like it's to have toxic gay drama with Richard. This is mostly not very historical and based on dated early 20th century scholarship, but has made for some very iconic entertainment that, in spirit at least, seems consistent with the legacy of Being A Dramatic Bitch

#Philip Augustus #Philippe Auguste #Philip II of France #Additional notes: #Most of my reading has been jean flori and Strickland #And flori is. Very funny. Very dramatic even when he is not trying to #He's just constantly like *scratches head* So Philip did XYZ. We don't know why and it doesn't make sense #But he sure did that behavior #Debunked yaoi but th #No respect for monarchs but I will fujofy their toxic traits. Sorry not sorry #12th century #French history #Fanart #Medieval #Capetians #Unrelated but I started drawing him brunette just bc like #Most of the modern art portrayals run with that #And it just feels consistent to me lmao in my brain #He's bald anyway in his later life so it doesn't matter #Bald Philippe representation #My art

[dirtielemon]

writing more basic plot points and figuring out how I want this first lil bit to go

#we're starting in the 12th century and ive gotta fill in a LOT of plot bc florences start is very tied to when they wake back up now but #my backstory/prologue is starting to be pretty much its own huge arc instead if a little blurb explainer #bc i think its too important to gloss over the characterization and building them up to what they are at the beginning of the Story

[alwaysunabasheddelusion]

I finished reading Chretien de Troyes’ Cliges and I’m pretty sure I spent the entire time questioning Fenice’s decisions. I know, honor, blah blah, but HONESTLY 

Cliges: I’m in love with you but you’re married to my uncle :C 

Fenice: I’m in love with you too but I’m married to your uncle :C (not by her own choice bc LOL obs) 

Cliges: what if we ran away to another country together? 

Fenice: but then people would GOSSIP about us and that would be TERRIBLE. We have to maintain good reputations. what if I fake my death and then you entomb me in like a private tower or something where you can visit me? 

Cliges: I’m in

#also honestly #the agonizing over how to get out of sleeping with her husband #bc if she slept with him she couldn't sleep with Cliges later #like #girl #I know this was written in the 12th century but #it was a lot

[fuckyeahcostumedramas]

Irene Papas as Clytemnestra & Tatiana Papamoschou as Iphigenia in  Iphigenia (Film, 1977).

#irene papas #clytemnestra #tatiana papamoschou #iphigenia #perioddramaedit #12th century bc #Dionysis Fotopoulos

[memories-of-ancients]

Turqouise inlaid bronze dagger axe (ge), China, Late Shang Dynasty 12th-11th century BC

from Sothebys

#history #antiquities #art #ancient history #ancient art #ancient china

[penny-anna]

insp by this poll

[matan4il]

Having come across yet another post that calls Jesus "Palestinian," here's your friendly reminder that:

The Land of Israel was only renamed Palestine by the colonialist Romans 100 years after Jesus died. Calling Jesus, a Judean Jew, a Palestinian, is as accurate as calling a native American chief who lived in the area of Manhattan in the 12th century, "a New Yorker."

As a Jew, if Jesus had been alive on Oct 7, the Palestinian terrorists who invaded southern Israel would have maimed and murdered him, too.

In the below painting: a more likely depiction of Jesus, who was a rabbi, than anything I've ever seen posted on this website. The Jewish prayer shawl he's wearing in this portrayal, is known to have been worn by Jews since at least 63 BC.

(for all of my updates and ask replies regarding Israel, click here)

#israel #antisemitism #israeli #israel news #israel under attack #israel under fire #terrorism #anti terrorism #hamas #antisemitic #antisemites #jews #jew #judaism #jumblr #frumblr #jewish #israelunderattack