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The at least 2,000 year old olive tree of Vouves,on the island of Crete,still bears olives. The tree stood here when Rome burned in AD64, and Pompeii was buried under a thick carpet of volcanic ash in AD79. Cemeteries from the Geometric Period (900-700 BC) were discovered nearby.
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The frozen ground of the Altai Mountains preserved this beautifully detailed Scythian woman's boot for over 2,300 years
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This small carving of a water bird was created c. 33,000 years ago. Thought to be a diver, cormorant, or duck. From beak to tail the figure is 4.7 cm long. The sculpted piece of mammoth ivory, found in the Hohle Fels cave in Germany, may be the earliest representation of a bird.
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A busy day at all British henge sites, as staff work to move the stones forward an hour.
Twice a year the stones at Avebury are moved for Daylight Saving Time.
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30 lead tablets, engraved with curses, that invoked the gods of the underworld in order to cause harm to others, have been discovered at the bottom of a 2,500 year old well in Athens.
#archaeology
#Greece
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The face of a woman stares at us across millennia. She was delicately carved from mammoth ivory during the last ice age, c. 25,000 years ago.
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At winter solstice, the shortest day of the year in the northern hemisphere, the sun shines down this 5,000 year old passage and hits the back wall. The Neolithic chambered mound lies about 500m off the Brittany coast, on the small island of Gavr'inis.
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Around 2,200 years ago, the artist Hephaistion left his signature on a mosaic floor in the form of a piece of parchment held down with small drops of wax. This perfect imitation of a sheet of parchment, with one corner curled up, was discovered in one of the palaces at Pergamon.
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This exceptional bear figurine was discovered in a peat bog near Słupsk. It was carved from amber during the Mesolithic- Neolithic, ca. 5000- 2000 BC
#archaeology
#Poland
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The frozen ground of the Altai Mountains preserved this beautifully detailed Scythian woman's boot for over 2,300 years. The leather boot was decorated with textile,tin (or pewter), pyrite crystals, gold foil and glass beads. H. 36 cm Siberia
#archaeology
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Scientists have discovered a trove of nearly 600 obsidian hand-axes that were crafted more than 1.2 million years ago in Ethiopia by an unknown group of hominins. This pushes the timeline of obsidian tool use back by 500,000 years.
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Archaeologists from the Bavarian State Office for the Preservation of Monuments have announced the discovery of a well-preserved Bronze Age sword in the town of Nördlingen, Bavaria, Germany.
📷Dr. Woidich
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This exceptional bear figurine, one of my favorite animal sculptures, was discovered in a peat bog near Słupsk in Poland.
It was carved from amber during the Mesolithic- Neolithic, ca. 5000- 2000 BC
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A mosaic floor, buried by the eruption of Mt. Vesuvius nearly 2,000 years ago, at the Villa de Papiri, an ancient seaside luxury retreat at Herculaneum.
Photo Archivio dell’arte – Pedicini Photographers.
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This delicate tiny carving of a water bird was created c. 33,000 years ago. Thought to be a diver,cormorant,or duck,the figure is from beak to tail 4.7 cm long. The sculpted piece of mammoth ivory, found in Hohle Fels cave in Germany, may be the earliest representation of a bird.
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The full moon sits over the temple of Apollo in Corinth, Greece.
Photograph: Valerie Gache/AFP/Getty Images
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The at least 2,000 year old olive tree of Vouves still bears olives
#Crete
tree was here when Rome burned in 64 & Pompeii was buried in 79
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This carved globe, made from joining the lower halves of two ostrich eggs, may be the oldest globe of the New World ever identified. The egg map, dated to the early 1500s, contains the phrase HC SVNT DRACONES ("here be dragons"), which appears above the coast of Southeast Asia.
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This exquisite c. 4,500 year old rock crystal dagger blade was discovered in a megalithic tomb, with two chambers, at Valencina de la Concepción, near Seville, in Spain. Additionally a large number of crystal arrowheads were found together.
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This almost 4,000 year old cape, made from 560g of gold,was found in a burial mound, in a field named Bryn yr Ellyllon ( Fairies' or Goblins' Hill), in northern Wales. The cape is one of the finest examples of prehistoric sheet-gold working and is quite unique in form and design.
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Today is
#WinterSolstice
the shortest day of the year in the northern hemisphere. At winter solstice, the sun shines down this 5,000 year old passage and hits the back wall. The Neolithic chambered mound lies about 500m off the Brittany coast, on the small island of Gavr'inis.
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Rows of ancient Greek helmets stacked in the storeroom of the Archaeological Museum of Olympia in Greece. The photo gives some idea of the numbers in which these helmets have survived
#oneofmyfavorites
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A wonderful reconstruction of Scythian horse trappings. This type of ornamental covering has been discovered in 5th century BC royal burial mounds in the Altai Mountains. The Scythians invented the earliest form of a saddle. This invention spread across their sedentary neighbours
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A lovely reconstruction of a spinning disk from about 14,000 to 21,000 years ago shows an animal in different positions on each side, as the disk is twirled on a string, the deer appears to move. Archaeologists think this spinning disc might be a children’s toy.
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This c. 2,500 year old terracotta figurine of a man grating cheese was found at the ancient Boeotian city of Mykalissos, present-day Rhitsona in Greece.
At the Thebes Archaeological Museum
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A Roman fibula (brooch), stunningly detailed, in the shape of a bee.
At Museo de Cádiz in Spain/ Photo Google Arts & Culture
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We can all use a good miniature bear right now!
This exceptional figurine was discovered in a peat bog near Słupsk in Poland. It was carved from amber during the Mesolithic- Neolithic, ca. 5000- 2000 BC
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Around 1420 AD a cat peed on this manuscript and a Deventer scribe added illustrations of the event, by drawing hands pointing toward the stain and cursing the feline with the following words:
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This c. 3,500 year old vessel, with a handle in the shape of a goose's head, was made out of a single block of rock crystal, and probably created by a Cretan artist.
It was found in Grave Circle B, Tomb O, at Mycenae in Greece.
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Two bison delicately sculpted from clay by firelight 14,000 years ago deep in the West Cave at 'Montesquieu-Avantès', only reachable by boat
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In AD 79, a baker in Herculaneum put his loaf of bread into the oven. Nearly 2,000 years later, the stamp of the carbonised loaf (divided into eight wedges) can still be read: CELERIS Q. GRANI VERI SER[VUS]
'Property of Celer, the slave of Quintus Granius Verus.'
#WorldFoodDay
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This is the neatest and possibly the most beautiful Ice Age art you've ever seen. These two bison were delicately sculpted from clay by firelight 14,000 years ago, deep in the dark depths of a cave system in the foothills of the central French Pyrenees.
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Around 2,200 years ago, the artist Hephaistion left his signature on a mosaic floor in the form of a piece of parchment held down with small drops of wax. This perfect imitation of a sheet of parchment, with one corner curled up, was discovered in one of the palaces at Pergamon.
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Two bison were delicately sculpted from clay by firelight 14,000 years ago, deep in the dark depths of a cave system in the foothills of the central French Pyrenees. No one visited these galleries between the last Ice Age and 1912. The caves are only reachable by boat.
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Around 2,200 years ago, the artist Hephaistion left his signature on this mosaic in the form of a piece of parchment held down with small drops of wax. This perfect imitation of a sheet of parchment, with one corner curled up, was discovered in one of the palaces at Pergamon.
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Diving among ancient ruins where Romans used to party.
"Fish dart across mosaic floors and into the ruined villas, where holidaying Romans once drank, plotted and flirted in the party town of Baiae, now an underwater archaeological park near Naples"
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A busy day at all British henge sites, as staff work to move the stones forward an hour. Twice a year the stones at Avebury are moved for Daylight Saving Time.
Photograph: National Trust
#archaeology
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I never get tired of seeing photos of Roman mosaics emerging under a vineyard near Verona in Italy. The remains of a villa, believed to date to the 3rd century AD, were unearthed in a hilly area above the town of Negrar di Valpolicella.
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This delicate tiny carving of a water bird was created c. 33,000 years ago.
Thought to be a diver,cormorant,or duck,the figure is from beak to tail 4.7 cm long. The sculpted piece of mammoth ivory, found in Hohle Fels cave in Germany, may be the earliest representation of a bird.
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Archaeologists have documented the oldest large-area wall paintings from the Ancient Near East.
The first parts of the 4,000 year old paintings were discovered in 2005 in the ruins of a Bronze Age palace in southern Lebanon
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Archaeologists discovered a perfectly preserved 3,000 year old bronze sword, weighing 1.3 kg, at Håre on West Funen in Denmark.
Excavations are being carried out ahead of the establishment of a major gas pipeline, the Baltic Pipe.
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A caricature, an animal fable, a satire of the royal family or just for fun?
c. 3,200 years ago, this fascinating scene, depicting a cat servant, waving a fan to keep a mouse cool, was drawn with black ink on a limestone ostracon, by an ancient Egyptian.
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A delicate Minoan gold ornament, in the form of a bee, to celebrate
#WorldBeeDay
The bee is finely decorated with filigree-work and granulation.
1700-1600 B.C., Crete
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This hauntingly beautiful gold ring, with a cabochon-worked rock crystal bezel, through which a male portrait is visible, was found in the “Hypogeum of the Garlands", in Grottaferrata, Italy.
The tomb at the ancient Roman sepulchral site was still sealed by the original stone…
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This exquisite c. 4,500 year old rock crystal dagger blade was discovered in a megalithic tomb, with two chambers, at Valencina de la Concepción (near Seville) in Spain. The second chamber contained a burial which was covered
with red pigment made from cinnabar.
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This exceptional amber bear figurine was found in a peat bog near Słupsk in Poland. Mesolithic/ Neolithic ca. 5000- 2000 BC
#oneofmyfavorites
#archaeology
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An ancient Greek vase in the shape of a lobster claw, ca. 460 B.C.
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More than 4,000 years ago, a dog left his (or her) front paw marks on this clay brick while it was lying out to dry. The brick was used in the construction of the Great Ziggurat of the moon god Nanna at the ancient Sumerian city of Ur.
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This 2,200 year old mosaic panel from Ptolemaic Egypt, with an adorable dog seated next to a knocked-over gold wine jug, is one of my favorite mosaics.
It once graced a floor in the royal quarter of Alexandria and is now located in the modern library of Alexandria.
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A life-size recreation of an ancient Egyptian garden has been opened at Hamilton Gardens in New Zealand. The recreation of a 4,000-year-old garden, based on tomb models dating from the Middle Kingdom, is officially open to the public.
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Please help to honor all
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Situated on the Via Domitia, the ancient road of Ambrussum still shows the deep wheel ruts of Roman chariots. The Gallo-Roman site is located between Nîmes and Montpellier (France) and has been occupied by people since the Neolithic period.
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An aerial view of the colossal Roman ruins of Baalbek in Lebanon. This incredibly beautiful site, which contains some of the largest Roman temples ever built, and are among the best preserved, just blew me away. It gave me memories to last a lifetime.
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One of the 1st recorded dog names in history belongs to the ancient Egyptian dog Abwtjw (Abutiu). He is one of the earliest documented domestic animals whose name is known to us. We know the dog died before 2280 BC and that he received an ceremonial burial at the Giza Necropolis.
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Using the neural-net tool Artbreeder, Photoshop and historical references, Daniel Voshart created photoreal portraits of Roman Emperors.
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Fearful that the Nazi forces in Prague would confiscate her lifetime's worth of artwork, Gertrud Kauders decided to hide 700 paintings and sketches. Nearly 80 years later, the artworks were rediscovered by a demolition team tearing down an old building
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These beautifully carved stone slabs support a 17-tonne stone slab acting as the roof of a 5,000 year old tomb on the small island of Gavr'inis. The Neolithic chambered mound lies about 500m off the Brittany coast, and is today only accessible by boat.
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The mesmerizing beauty of amber. A praying mantis frozen forever in time. The piece of amber is approximately twelve million years old and measures just slightly over one inch tall.
photo
1.18 x 0.61 x 0.52 inches (3.00 x 1.56 x…
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One of the two massive ships, built by Roman Emperor Caligula, that were uncovered in Lake Nemi in the 1920s.
Under orders from Mussolini, the lake was drained and the ships were dug out. However, the two ships were destroyed in World War II.
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Reconstruction of Scythian horse trappings. Type of ornamental covering was found in royal burial mounds. 5thc BC …
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This stunning helmet with a high bronze crest in the shape of a bird or a dragon, was buried in a boat-grave at Vendel, Uppland, on the eastern coast of Sweden, some time between 650 and 700 AD, before the Viking Age officially began.
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The at least 2,000 year old olive tree of Vouves,on the island of Crete,still bears olives. The tree stood here when Rome burned in AD64, and Pompeii was buried under a thick carpet of volcanic ash in AD79. Cemeteries from the Geometric Period (900-700 BC) were discovered nearby.
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This magnificent carpet, preserved in the frozen ground of the Altai Mountains for over 2,400 years, was created by using the so-called Turkish knot (technique of the symmetrical double knot).
The widest border contains 28 figures of men on horseback and dismounted.
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This beautiful ram’s head was carved by an Etruscan master artisan from a piece of Baltic amber almost 2,500 years ago.
#Italy
#archaeology
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The difference between learning a modern language and an ancient language
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The ruins of Nero's Theater, an imperial theater referred to ancient Roman texts but never found, have been discovered under the garden of the future Four Season's Hotel, steps from the Vatican, after excavating the walled garden of the Palazzo della Rovere since 2020, as part of…
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For
#WorldOctopusDay
I share a scene of the so-called 'Fish Mosaic' discovered in the 'House of the Faun' in Pompeii, Italy, which dates back to the 2nd century BC and depicts a combat between an octopus and a lobster in astonishing detail.
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In AD 79, a baker put his loaf of bread into the oven. Nearly 2,000 years later it was found during excavations in Herculaneum
#foodMW
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Who doesn't love a good miniature bear?
This exceptional figurine was discovered in a peat bog near Słupsk. It was carved from amber during the Mesolithic- Neolithic, ca. 5000- 2000 BC
#archaeology
#Poland
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This exquisitely carved Ice Age figurine was found in the Vogelherd Cave, near Stetten, in southwest Germany.
Sculpted in mammoth ivory c. 35,000 years ago, it is the oldest known sculpture of a horse.
The head is complete and still shows the engraved mouth, nostrils and eyes.
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4,000 years ago a dog left his front paw and claw marks on a clay brick used for the ziggurat of the moon god at Ur
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This logboat was carved, using stone axes and fire, from a giant oak trunk around 4,500 years ago. It measures over 14 m long by 1 m wide. The so-called Lurgan canoe was discovered in 1901, in a Co. Galway bog in Ireland.
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This 3rd century papyrus, containing scholia (a kind of ancient commentary) to Homer's Iliad,
was last used as toilet paper.
The sheet, once a beautiful scroll, preserves two columns of text and was discovered among the trash mounds at the ancient Egyptian city of Oxyrhynchus.
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This c. 2,450 year old tiny gold chariot, just 7.5 cm tall, was discovered near the Oxus River in modern-day Tajikistan. You can see inside the chariot a driver and governor. Note the lovely detail of the ancient Egyptian dwarf god Bes on the front.
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This exquisite ram’s head was carved by an Etruscan master artisan from a piece of Baltic amber almost 2,500 years ago.
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I'm fascinated with the shape and details of this ca. 4,200 year old dress, discovered in a tomb at Giza in Egypt. The beads were strung together on a net and were (probably) worn over a linen dress.
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This exquisite ram’s head was carved by an Etruscan master artisan from a piece of Baltic amber almost 2,500 years ago.
Amber moved down from the Baltic via rivers from west Jutland across Germany and down the Po Valley of northern Italy to the Adriatic sea.
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The Mold gold cape. This beautiful gold cape was found in a burial mound, in a field named Bryn yr Ellyllon (the Fairies' or Goblins' Hill), in northern Wales, UK.
1900-1600 B.C. The cape was made from 560g of gold.
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Archaeologists discovered a cave painting of a life-sized wild pig that was made at least 45,500 years ago in Indonesia.
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Through this remarkable facial reconstruction by Elisabeth Daynes, we are looking at the face of a woman who lived around 15,000 years ago in the area of Cap Blanc in present-day France.
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A delicate Minoan gold ornament, in the form of a bee, to mark
#WorldBeeDay
This c. 3,600 year old bee is finely decorated with filigree-work and granulation.
length: 1.9 centimetres, weight: 17 grains.
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I love this Roman key so much. Just look at the ears and manes of the horse😊 wonderful!
#archaeology
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This tiny Ice Age figurine was discovered in the Vogelherd Cave, near Stetten, in southwest Germany.
Sculpted in mammoth ivory c. 35,000 years ago, it is the oldest known sculpture of a horse.
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Spanish archaeologists have recovered a Roman perfume from a rare quartz bottle sealed 2,000 years ago.
The remains of the perfume were found in 2019 during an archaeological excavation in a mausoleum uncovered during the construction of a swimming pool in Carmona.
📷Carmona…
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A 5,000 year old beer factory has been discovered at Abydos in Egypt.
Archaeologists found units and pottery basins, which were used to heat a mixture of grains and water to produce beer. The factory probably served the royal tombs and temples at Abydos.
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A c. 3,200 year old ostracon, with a drawing of a cat servant, waving a fan to keep a mouse cool. A number of such scenes have survived showing animals acting as humans with their natural roles reversed. They may have illustrated fables, or satires on upper-class life in Egypt.
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These amazing red Romano-Egyptian socks were excavated at ancient Oxyrhynchus, a Greek colony on the Nile in central Egypt. They were made around the 4th to 5th century AD, in the technique nålbindning, with a divided toe, designed to be worn with sandals.
250-420 AD
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The chambered mound on the small island of Gavr'inis is one of my most favorite sites. The exquisitely beautiful carved stone slabs support the roof of this 5,000 year old tomb which lies about 500m off the Brittany coast, and is (today) only accessible by boat.
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In AD 79,a baker in Herculaneum slides a bread into the oven.It is one of the remnants of Roman day-to-day life leading up to the catastrophic eruption of Mt Vesuvius.Nearly 2000 years later the baker's stamp of the carbonised loaf can still be read CELERIS Q. GRANI VERI SER[VUS]
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Archaeologists in Siberia have unearthed a 2,500-year-old grave holding the remains of four people from the ancient Tagar culture — including two warriors, a male and female — and a stash of their metal weaponry.
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A 1.82 m (6 feet) tall woman wearing a prosthetic eye was found in the Sistan desert,where she lived 5,000 years ago
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This intact 5,000 year old door, made of poplar wood, was unearthed on the shore of Lake Zurich. It is one of the earliest doors ever uncovered in Europe.
#Switzerland
#Archaeology
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c. 2300 year old gold earring in the form of Nike driving a two-horse chariot. The earring is composed of more than a hundred individual elements soldered together. Nike earrings were most popular in the period from the late 300s to early 200s BC
#Greece
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Underground city of Derinkuyu could shelter 20,000 people with livestock and food. The 85m deep tunnel complex was likely built in 7thc BC
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Simply wonderful😊
2,000 year old Roman mosaic found under a vineyard in Negrar di Valpolicella, near Verona in Italy.
with thanks to
@RoshwaldAviel
@ThamKhaiMeng
for bringing it to my attention.
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Exquisitely beautiful carved stone slabs support the roof of this 5,000 year old tomb. The chambered mound on the small island of Gavr'inis lies about 500m off the Brittany coast, and is today only accessible by boat.
#France
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More photos of the 13th century AD wooden road discovered in Berlin, Germany.
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