Theologian Albert Schweitzer and his cat
John Brown did nothing wrong
Great Ziggurat of Ur, modern Iraq
Nursery Rhymes for Fighting Times - Book of nursery rhyme parodies about WWI (1914) - link for a scan in the body (lemmy.world)
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Ogham stone unearthed in Coventry garden excites archaeologists (www.bbc.co.uk)
Waqrapukara, Peru
Etruscan carnelian engraving depicting the Trojan Horse of mythological fame, 500-475 BCE
Fossilized tree stump surrounded by coal miners, USA, 1918
Half-suit of plate armor, Italy, ~1580 AD
Pre-print from David Reich et al provides new details and solid dates for the emergence of the Yamnaya, likely proving Indo-Anatolian hypothesis. (pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov)
The Yamnaya archaeological complex appeared around 3300BCE across the steppes north of the Black and Caspian Seas, and by 3000BCE reached its maximal extent from Hungary in the west to Kazakhstan in the east. To localize the ancestral and geographical origins of the Yamnaya among the diverse Eneolithic people that preceded them,...
Hipsters just need to get some bones in 'em
Roman soldiers at camp
ENEMIES OF THE FASCIST MENACE
Study reveals the dietary practices of the agropastoral communities of the northeast Iberian Peninsula (phys.org)
Raquel Hernando, a Juan de la Cierva researcher associated with the European project TIED2TEETH, at the Centro Nacional de Investigación sobre la Evolución Humana (CENIEH), is the lead author of a paper published in the American Journal of Biological Anthropology, in which the teeth of 84 adult individuals found at eight sites...
Cat statuette, Iran, late 19th century AD
Photochrome of the British royal yacht 'Osborne' making its way through the Kiel Canal, Germany, ~1895
American M50 'Ontos' disembarking from a landing craft during the Vietnam War, 1965
Medieval Norman-Sicilian soldiers
Pictish warriors repelling Britons in the Early Medieval Period
16 ton meteorite found in Oregon, USA, 1902
Roman aqueduct in Zaghouan, Tunisia
Mask of a Medieval Azerbaijani warrior
An Animal Entertainment Specialist in the Colosseum
European crusaders skirmishing with Turkish horse archers
Snacking at the Colosseum
