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ancientcharm · 3 days
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House of Menander, Pompeii. Entrance to the baths.
Photography by Silvia Vacca
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Almond trees in bloom behind the abandoned Desert de les Palmes monastery, built between 1697 and 1733 and destroyed by natural disasters in 1783. Located in Benicàssim, Castelló, Valencian Country.
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ancientorigins · 12 hours
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Inside Abu Simbel Temple, Egypt
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ancientegyptdaily · 2 days
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ANCIENT EGYPT BY TRAIN (2023) — 1.01 Alexandria
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So what was really new here? Let’s go back to the archaeological evidence. Settlements inhabited by tens of thousands of people make their first appearance in human history around 6000 years ago, on almost every continent, at first in isolation. Then they multiply. One of the things that makes it so difficult to fit what we now know about them into an oldfashioned evolutionary sequence, where cities, states, bureaucracies and social classes all emerge together, is just how different these cities are. It’s not just that some early cities lack class divisions, wealth monopolies, or hierarchies of administration. They exhibit such extreme variability as to imply, from the very beginning, a conscious experimentation in urban form.
Contemporary archaeology shows, among other things, that surprisingly few of these early cities contain signs of authoritarian rule. It also shows that their ecology was far more diverse than once believed: cities do not necessarily depend on a rural hinterland in which serfs or peasants engage in back-breaking labour, hauling in cartloads of grain for consumption by urban dwellers. Certainly, that situation became increasingly typical in later ages, but in the first cities small-scale gardening and animal-keeping were often at least as important; so too were the resources of rivers and seas, and for that matter the continued hunting and collecting of wild seasonal foods in forests or in marshes. The particular mix depended largely on where in the world the cities happened to be, but it’s becoming increasingly apparent that history’s first city dwellers did not always leave a harsh footprint on the environment, or on each other.
David Graeber and David Wengrow, The Dawn of Everything
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Mesolithic, Neolithic and Bronze Age Micro Flints, Banchory Museum, Scotland
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barbucomedie · 1 day
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Commemoration Slab from Castlesteads, England dated to the 2nd Century CE on display at the Tullie House Museum and Art Gallery in Carlisle, England
The different Roman legions each had a series of emblems. Besides the eagle, they each had additional badges which they used when they wanted to mark soemthing that they had built or be associated with.
The Second Legion Augusta was raised during the civil war that brought the Emperor Augustus to power. This event was commemorated by adopting Augustus' emblem, a capricorn. This is often called a "Sea Goat" and is a mythical creature that had the head and body of a goat and tail of a fish. In addition they also used the winged horse, a pegasus as an emblem. Both these badges have been found on this building stone at Castlesteads Roman Fort on Hadrian's Wall.
Photographs taken by myself 2023
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ancientstuff · 1 day
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Nice that for once it isn't an economic document. Not so nice that it's about a catastrophe.
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ancientcharm · 1 day
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Beautiful Roman fresco of the Augustan period, found in the gardens of the Villa Farnesina on the south bank of the river Tiber. Photographed by Sam Florio (2019)
Although there is no certainty, it is believed that the owner of the house was Marcus Vipsanius Agrippa, since the style and quality of the fresco are similar to those of the house of Augustus on the Palatine.
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homochadensistm · 20 hours
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Aight gang. I'm in the field. I MUST piss. The only ModestTM place to piss is inside an empty sewage canal. It's empty, but it smells. It doesn't look too good either.
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darknwilde · 2 days
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i'm an artist with an extreme love of mythology and folklore, i just love history, reading, and such in general! i plan to study to become an archeologist <3
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ancientorigins · 2 days
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Old house in Bait Boss in Sanaa, Yemen
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ANCIENT EGYPT BY TRAIN (2023) — 1.01 Alexandria
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cy-lindric · 7 months
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Bronze Age Cist, Banchory Museum, Scotland
Archaeological evidence shows activity of people on the banks of the River Dee since Lower Upper Palaeolithic times. This is more than 14,500 years ago, when Britain was still connected to the rest of Europe and the ice was starting to retreat.
This suggests Banchory is one of the oldest known settlements in Scotland. The name Banchory derives from an early Christian settlement founded by St Ternan.
Around 3900 BCE, two of the largest and earliest known Neolithic timber halls in Europe were built on both sides of the River Dee at Crathes and Balbridie. The area features large numbers of ancient monuments.
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