Ancient Text Gallery

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Faustina Minor, Roman empress (161-175)* coin  texture:“ΦΑΥCΤEΙΝΑ CΕΒ[ΑC]ΤΗ * reverse: goddess
misspepita:Another scan from Guy Deutscher’s The Unfolding of Language.
Four major texts in the Vedic Sanskrit literature suggest an early form of kissing. Dating from 1500
A detail of the second largest shrine of Tutankhamun. The surface is decorated with texts and vignet
opossumprince:thoodleoo:if anyone ever tries to tell you that the ancient greeks were more sophistic
The end of the preface of Ronald Syme’s The Roman Revolution (Oxford, 1939)Text reads:…[the]
nemfrog: Peruvian and other textile patterns. Watercolor designs from ancient and Indian patterns.
cleopatrasdaughter:ancient history meme | texts [2/2]Sappho was Greek and resided on the island of L
terpsikeraunos:Homeric Hymn to Selene 1-13Ecce Serenitas, dea Selene manifestata.
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Dionysian curtain fragment Linen and wool; 4th century Egypt (Coptic). Collection of the Virginia Mu
valscrapbook:St Malo by welshio on Flickr.
For millennia, ancient peoples of the Andes created quipus—complex record-keeping devices, made of k
uwmspeccoll:An Old Comedy FeathursdayPerhaps the most noted ancient Greek text to feature birds prom
Happy New Year. Thank you for supporting my work and the ancient craft of hand weaving. Here are a c
Cecilia Vicuña’s Quipu desaparecido (Disappeared Quipu) is a multisensory memorial to ancient
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The thousands of textiles currently housed at the Brooklyn Museum are prime examples of the vast glo
Dig Diary, January 29, 2018: The view of the Mut Temple from the southwest corner of the sacred
endilletante:Turquie, texte de Werner Kündig ; Photos de Fulvio Roiter. Editions Silva, Zu
ancientart:One of the slightly less glamourous looking Egyptian pyramids visible today: the Unas Pyr
Pyramid TextsOld Kingdom hieroglyphs decorate the wallsof the burial chamber in the Pyramid of Pepi
Archaeological Museum of PatraGolden threads and sheets shaped like pomegranate fruit. From Patras H
Book of AmduatSerpents slither in a scene from a funerary text, the Book of Amduat or (“Th
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