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archaeohistories, 8 months ago to random

A 16th Century CE, Manuscript (UPenn Ms. Codex 109) includes an image of 'Cat with a rocket on its back'.

It comes from a work that examines gunpowder and weaponry, one idea was to use doves and cats loaded with flammable devices to set fire to enemy positions.

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archaeohistories, 7 months ago to random

Detroit’s Mark Twain Library, which was closed in 1996 for renovations and never reopened.

📷© Vintage American Photographs

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archaeohistories, 7 months ago to random

The ruins of Whitby Abbey in North Yorkshire, England, completed by drone lighting.

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📷 DRIFT/Cyberdrone.

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archaeohistories, 7 months ago to random

"It took me years to realize that Inca and pre-Columbian architecture is directly related to the structure of the corn kernels. In a western model of thought, one might judge the shapes as irregular, but in a universal thought, everything is a correlation between the cosmos, science, art and humanity."

As you can see, the organic growth forms are represented in a logarithmic way, and the fact that these pentagonal, hexagonal and heptagonal blocks coincide with the corn forms.

• Juan Casco

archaeohistories, 7 months ago to random

Trinity College Library serves Trinity College and the University of Dublin, and is largest library in Ireland, containing more than 6.2 million volumes and an extensive collection of early manuscripts, including internationally famous Book of Kells. It was established in 1592 CE, by Queen Elizabeth I and is famous for graduates such as Wilde and Beckett. It is considered as one of most beautiful and impressive libraries and architectural spaces in the world.

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archaeohistories, 7 months ago to random

Some Things Never Change 😀

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archaeohistories, 7 months ago to random

The existence of mankind can be traced way back to about 200,000 years and in contrast to it, humans have started recording history just 6000 years ago. It means that we may never be able to know what happened in those 194,000 years that have never been recorded.

• Dr. M.F. Khan

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archaeohistories, 7 months ago to random

Eschif in Périgueux, France was a lookout for a toll bridge. It's an oak timber frame building with wattle & daub infill built in 1347 CE. Built that long ago and still standing and survived both world wars.

A lookout post that made it possible to guard Tournepiche bridge in Middle Ages. In middle ages, taxes on buildings were levied on soil surface occupied by a building. This explain why lot of buildings were narrow based like this one for example with broader upper levels.

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archaeohistories, 8 months ago to random

Cover Design of the 1946, Edition of Edward Gibbon's "The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire" Volumes.

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archaeohistories, 6 months ago to random

A 1st-2nd Century AD; a 20 sided 'Roman Rock Crystal Dice' (icosahedron), from Wroxeter, Shropshire, England.

This kind of dice was intended to be thrown, and to give a random result or possibly used in fortune telling, Greek letter on each face may have corresponded to a reference in a divination manual. Alternatively, it may have been used for an unknown game. Archeologists believe that they were also used in conjunction with divination handbooks.

Louvre Museum

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archaeohistories, 8 months ago to random

Then vs Now :

The historical photo was taken in 1928 from Svalbard, between Norway and the North Pole. The newer photo was taken in 2002.

© Historical Photographs

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archaeohistories, 8 months ago to random

The largest animal rock petroglyphs in the world; known as 'Dabous Giraffes', located in Air Massif, Niger.

The carvings (6m in height) are believed to have been done between 12000-7000 BC, during African Humid Period (14600-5000 years ago), when this region was less arid, and Sahara was a vast savannah, that streched thousands of miles. There are also remains of petrified wood found in the area, which gave evidence that region could sustain animal and human life.

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archaeohistories, 7 months ago to random

Hala Fruit : The fruit that looks like an exploding planet.

Traditional Hawaiian Cultures (since 300 CE), use Hala Tree for medicine, dye, and food. They apply and consume the roots to treat illnesses, and braid the leaves into a variety of household items.

Hala fruit grows from Pandanus tectorius, a towering tree related to Southeast Asia's fragrant pandan leaf, that is native to Malesia, eastern Australia, and Pacific Islands. It grows in coastal lowlands typically near edge of ocean.

archaeohistories, 6 months ago to random

The shoe of a Roman Legionnaire (100 BC - 100 AD), found during the excavations of a military camp near Saalburg, Germany.

Saalburg Archaeological Park and Museum

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Lupanar (Brothel) Sign, Pompeii :

In Pompeii; Penises can be found not only as graffiti roughly drawn and carved onto public walls, but built into the roads as well.

It is guessed that phallic symbols on the streets point towards nearest brothel, to direct foreign sailors who may be heavily intoxicated and/or unable to speak the local language.

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archaeohistories, 7 months ago to random

Gallo-Roman Statue; with a removable top (1st Century CE)

MET Museum

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archaeohistories, 7 months ago to random

A 19th Century AD, Mummified Head (Mokomokai) with 'Moko Facial Tattoo'; belonged to Maori Culture (originated in 13th-14th Centuries AD), New Zealand.

In Māori mummification, brain and eyes were removed, all holes in skull were sealed with flax fibers and gum. Head was then steamed in an oven, before being smoked in a fire, then left in sun for several days. After that, head was hydrated with shark fat oil.

Auckland Museum

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archaeohistories, 7 months ago to random

Diver touching 'Two Continents', between North America and Europe, Silfra, Iceland.

Silfra a fissure between North American and Eurasian tectonic plates in Thingvellir National Park. Rift was formed in 1789 AD, by earthquakes accompanying divergent movement of two tectonic plates.

Diving and snorkeling site at Silfra is right where two continents meet and drift apart about 2cm per year. Silfra, only place in the world where you can dive or snorkel directly in crack between two tectonic plates.

archaeohistories, 6 months ago to random

Temple of Poseidon at Cape Sounion welcomes "Olympias", a reconstruction of an ancient Athenian 170-oared trireme.

A commissioned ship in the Hellenic Navy of Greece, only commissioned vessel of its kind in any of the world's navies.

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A Black Leather Case; for carrying a book on your belt. Made in Italy in 1465-1485 AD. The design seems to hint that the reading inside is pleasing to God. On the back is an unidentified coats of arms with a crozier and mitre, suggesting that this belonged to a bishop. The Latin Inscription reads, 'Remember Me'

In the Middle Ages, it was very common to wear a book case on the belt. Book of Hours, Bible, Breviary; they were thus at your fingertips.

MET Museum

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Today's kid exploring the ancient ruins ...

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History is always written by the winners. When two cultures clash, the loser is obliterated, and the winner writes the history books-books which glorify their own cause and disparage the conquered foe.

As Napoleon once said, 'What is history, but a fable agreed upon?

― Dan Brown, author of The Da Vinci Code

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A 2500 year-old mummy of a man, also known as the Horseman, with an elaborate tattoo of an elk covering his right shoulder. He was discovered in 1995 in a Pazyryk burial mound in Siberia's Altai Mountains, Russia.

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archaeohistories, 6 months ago to history

A megalithic monument in Spain that's older than the Pyramids was recently uncovered from its watery hiding place by a drought.

The "Spanish Stonehenge" is about 7,000 years old, some 2,000 years older than Stonehenge itself.

© Earthly Mission

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archaeohistories, 22 days ago to history

A loaf of bread with a stamped imprint found in Herculaneum and dated back to 1st Century AD, bears the name of its baker. Unearthed in 1930, this sourdough loaf was baked on the morning of August 24th, 79 AD. Turned to carbon and preserved by the oven it was baked in, the loaf endured the eruption of Mount Vesuvius, remaining intact through the ages.

National Archaeological Museum, Naples

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