Sacellum Cloacinae - ruins of the Shrine of Cloacina, (Roman Goddess of Sewers and Marital Sex)
Qubbas at Old Dongola, a mammary landscape
perimetered architectural Haniwa - final Jomon era funerary relics
like some hellish astronaut from a decadent past - Reliquary Skull of (allegedly) Mary Magdalene
What a beautiful section drawing-
-analysis of a newly discovered typology of ancient pottery (Ireland, c. late 2nd Millenia BCE)
the non-regular geometry of the Tepe Sialk (c.3000 BCE) - not Sumerian etc. but possibly from a Zayandeh River Culture
a forest of ancient graves - Lindholm Høje (c.5th-11th Cent. CE)
glancing at the history of distance optical codes, i.e. semaphores & telegraphs
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bronze age plans | order in irregularity - Bebbe Caturegli & Giovanella Formica
hnefatafl - a popular viking board game
Greek Libation Phiales
Nageire Hall (投入堂), of the Sanbutsu-ji temple. c. 12th Cent. CE
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the growth of paris - in cartwheeling broken graphics that leap between perspective and plan and...
bronze spiral rings
Thailand, late period (300BCE-300CE)
Opulent Javanese Rings, c.9th Cent. CE (set with purple stones)