Ogham, Innisfallen, and Pratchett

Ogham is the Old Irish alphabet, usually seen carved into stones. The above example of Ogham, however, comes from MS. Rawl. B. 503, The Annals of Innisfallen.

This manuscript dates back to the 11th to 14th Centuries. The page excerpted here features an account of the building of the castle of Brí Uis and then gives a Latin inscription in Ogham letters:

Numus honoratur / sine numo nullus amatur.

This translates to Money is honoured/ without money nobody is loved, which is unfortunately not the most heartwarming of sentiments.

Speaking of which: Ogham formed the basis of Oggham, an ancient language in Terry Pratchett’s Lords and Ladies where it appears above an elven portal and spells out - and there’s no way to break this to you gently - “I’ve got a great big tonker.”

Ogham is one of the ancient scripts featured in the Taylor Institution Library’s current lecture series.

Can’t argue with that.

More photos and information about the expedition can be found on the New Guinea Highland Wild Dog Foundation website.

I feel like it would not have been that much to ask that they put the word “breed” in the title so I could have avoided thinking there was one specific dog that was incredibly elusive and ancient and cryptid hunters had been searching for it for centuries

its fucked up to me how, like, we as a humanity can forget how to make shit. like how the west forgot how to make glass or some shit for a while.

nobody knows the exact way of creating lots of ancient stuff; greek fire and damascus steel are really well known examples, and material scientists are still studying roman cement because it’s better than modern cement 

isnt that so fucked up

ancient roman 1: my dude what would you like to paint on the walls of our awesome house ancient roman 2: i dunno bro i was thinking that maybe we could get a fresco of that boner god weighing his erect dick against a bag of money ancient roman 1: that is exactly what i had in mind too bro let’s do it scholar: clearly this is the greatest civilization to walk the face of this earth

An Ancient Babylonian Customer Service Complaint Inscribed on a Clay Tablet Around 1750 BC

Cicero, circa 43 BC (via amandaonwriting)

“Recency illusion is the belief or impression that something is of recent origin when it is in fact long-established.”

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i love pulling out ancient quotes like this whenever someone starts complaining about This Generation and how we’re ruining the world

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400-year-old jewel-encrusted skeletons unearthed in churches across Europe

an ancient relic

Computational landmark / Stonehege

ancient kawaii

Legionnaire with wolf head