troy story

sometimes you just want to look at the qing dynasty jadeite cabbage again

here she is!

[ID: a sculpture of a chinese cabbage carved from a piece of two-tone white-and-green jadeite, resting on an intricate wooden stand /end ID]

Masculine cape made of green silk velvet with golden embroidery. Years 1651-1675.

Source: Museu Virtual de la Moda de Catalunya [Fashion Virtual Museum of Catalonia]. Kept in Museu del Disseny [Design Museum] in Barcelona, Catalonia.

Jade amulet in the form of a seated figure with bovine head, Hongshan culture, Neolithic China, 4700-2900 BC

from The Cleveland Museum of Art

every prehistoric human reconstruction has me thinking “I want to smoke weed with this bitch”

she looks like she would have been an awesome neighbor, like she would have loved menthols and called me baby

“a Cheeto could have killed a Victorian child” but the opposite. Neanderthals would have loved to go to Hardee’s and get a burger with me.

neanderthals would have walked hand in hand with me into hell (buccees opening day)

When I saw this article two years ago and found out Neanderthals were seasoning their food 70,000 years ago, I teared up thinking about how they never got to try things like beef jerky and Doritos.

go here for an interactive database of known cuneiform tablets

Mother of pearl mounted English folding knife, circa 1830′s-1850′s

from Sofe Design Auctions

St Michael by Carlo Crivelli, 1472

Palestinian Headscarf (Ramallah), 19th century, embroidered with Palestinian patterns

Medieval encaustic floor tiles - Photo - rosbyamshaw

Ceremonial Scepter/Mace from Uluburun Shipwreck - volcanic stone - Bulgaria or Romania,  Late Bronze Age - late 14th century BCE

“Excavating a ceramic krater from the Kas wreck at Uluburun, Turkey, using an airlift. (© INA)”

From: “Encyclopedia of underwater and maritime archaeology” 1997.

Uluburun, Late Bronz Age.

Solid gold cup from the Uluburun shipwreck, discovered near the coast of Turkey.  The ship set sail from a Syro-Palestinian port in the Late Bronze Age, 14th century BCE. The ship’s probable destination was a Mycenaean palace in Greece.  

The origins of the objects aboard the ship range geographically from northern Europe to Africa, as far west as Sicily and Sardinia, and as far east as Mesopotamia, indicating Late Bronze Age international trade, and royal gift-giving in the Near East.  

(via Pinterest)

“The Spring”. Fresco from Akrotiri, a prehistoric city in Greece.

2022.8.13

Akrotiri

Santorini, Greece