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uncleclaudius · 1 month

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One of the panels of a mosaic of a cheery skeleton uncovered in Turkey in 2016, probably dated to the Late Roman era Antioch. The word can be transliterated as EUPHROSYNOS (cheerful).

#ancient rome #roman empire #ancient history #antioch #skeleton #mosaic #roman era #roman antioch #ancient art #ancient civilisation #ancient civilisations #ancient culture #memento mori

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ancientstuff · 4 months

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What fantastic finds! I'm absolutely riveted by this.

#archaeology #Amazon #Ecuador #rainforest #ancient civilisations #ancient civilizations

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lifebuoyjournals · 1 year

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An embalming workshop unearthed at Saqqara, Egypt, an ancient burial ground, has provided insight on the chemicals used in embalming in ancient Egyptian societies. In this workshop, pots containing labelled chemicals were found. GCMS analysis of the contents revealed that while there were many local materials, some originated from as far as Africa, South Asia, and Southeast Asia. For example, one pot contained elemi, a resin that comes from Canarium trees that grow in Asian and African rainforests. Another contained dammar, also a resin, from Shorea trees in tropical south Asia and southeast Asia. How ancient Egyptian civilisations traded for these materials from Asia/Africa is unclear.

#aslzoology #asl zoology #zoology articles #studyblr #archaeology #stem #stemblr #ancient civilisations #anthropology #egypt #science #nature

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gemsofgreece · 1 year

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That's an interesting theory about lost civilizations. Remember when people found an ancient Greek artifact that resembled a computer to measure the stars? There's a possibility of ancient civilizations being so advanced that even influenced Greeks, Egyptians thousands years ago etc.

Also we humans haven't explored the whole ocean, jungles and even deserts in Sahara so imagine the possibility of more advanced civilizations that inspired our own.

I have always been fascinated by this theory. However I don’t believe what the woman in this TikTok implies, namely that these civilisations were more or as advanced as the subsequent ancient civilisations we know about. We already have found numerous tools and artefacts from the Old Stone Age, going back 3 million years. If we can find such primal tools in considerable numbers for this huge time span, it can not be possibly explained how such supposedly super advanced civilisations left so little evidence behind. Again, I believe all the great civilisations of antiquity were taking inspiration from older civilisations that we gradually know less and less about as we go back in time, but that doesn’t mean those civilisations had achieved that level of alien-like advancement that is often implied in this conspiracy theory. Civilisation was getting more and more refined as time passed.

As for her giving the object to the AI and having it produce a random image with it and somehow making this evidence of how humans used this object, even pseudoscience would disregard this type of reasoning 🤷🏻‍♀️

#history #ancient civilisations #not directly Greece related #anon #mail

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kimludcom · 19 days

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sentiemental · 2 months

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I saw something the other day abt how ancient people didn’t have days of the week like we did so the days wouldn’t feel the same as we and it’s been freaking me out. They werent getting that Friday feeling :(

#text #ancient civilisations

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arcturiusmusic · 7 months

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deadstonemasonssociety · 11 months

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The 5000-year-old 626-hectare archaeological site of The Sacred City of Caral-Supe is situated on a dry desert terrace overlooking the green valley of the Supe river. It dates back to the Late Archaic Period of the Central Andes and is the oldest centre of civilization in the Americas.

#UNESCO #Caral-Supe #Andes #ancient civilisations

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awesomecooperlove · 1 year

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#ancient civilisations #cultures #our world #hidden history #hidden civilisations #humanity #technologies #out of space civilisations #our universe #our galactic brothers and sisters #truth #please share #wwg1wga

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joandelahaye · 2 years

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Phanagoria and Spooky Reads

Hello, my Freaky Darlings! While it continues to be a shit show on the global front, things have been going pretty well in my little author world. I signed a release and finalised edits for one of my stories in an upcoming anthology. I’ll share more on that closer to the time of publication. I’ve also been writing up a storm. It looks like I’m on track to getting Sliced and Diced 3 out towards…

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#Ancient Civilisations #Book Sales #Giveaways #Halloween #History #Horror #Phanagoria

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firnen-the-teragram-teabag · 14 days

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uncleclaudius · 8 months

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Bronze Etruscan mirror. Mirrors such as this were given to women as wedding gifts. The engraving shows a young woman and a man playing a board game. The inscription next to the woman says: "I think I am going to win."

#etruscans #ancient artefacts #ancient civilisations #ancient italy #etruscan civilisation #ancient culture #ancient art

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greekmythcomix · 9 months

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Roman Chickens 1:

Marc Egg-tony and Cleo-bawk-tra enemy of Rome

Bawk-tavian/ Egg-ustus, first Emperor

( @wolfythewitch called me ‘the chicken artist’ and @readingandsiamese requested this bunch/flock and @nambnb said yes please so that’s what we’re doing now because I can’t resist)

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classicstober · 7 months

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Welcome to ClassicsTober 2023!

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In 2021 my friend Dr Cora Beth Fraser and I (@greekmythcomix ) accidentally started ‘Classics-tober’ – a list of Ancient Mediterranean Myth and History prompts for each day in October, so that we had an excuse to draw Classics stuff for a month. We did it again last year and even more people joined in, so we’ll be running it again this year – we’re just putting the final touches to the prompt list for this year. And now that there are a LOT of new Social Media platforms, we’re going to be attempting to run it on as many of them as possible!

The idea is to create something - anything - for the prompt. Like other October prompt lists, it can be an illustration, but it can also be text, reference, historical artefact, video, story, translation... pretty much anything you're interested in from the Ancient Med World that fits with the prompt. There's no pressure to do every single one, just the ones you like.

This year we’ve chosen Ancient Greek Myth Characters, some well-known and others less so.

If you'd like to join in, tag this account and use #ClassicsTober and #ClassicsTober23 on your social media posts when you share them (and if on Tumblr tag this account)

NOTE: please make sure if you share the graphic you add the ALT text (below for you to copy and paste)

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Ancient Greek Myth Characters

* meaning Ancient Greece and Rome because no one's come up with a better term yet, but if you want to add additional Ancient Med cultures then yes please - especially if you can link them to versions of these myths/ characters!

1 Cassandra

2 Medusa

3 Asterion

4 Lycaon

5 Chiron

6 Medea

7 Persephone

8 Icarus

9 Achilles

10 Asklepius

11 Pandora

12 Theseus

13 Arachne

14 Helen

15 Prometheus

16 Circe

17 Atalanta

18 Phaedra

19 Sisyphus

20 Odysseus

21 Psyche

22 Midas

23 Orpheus

24 Hephaestus

25 Talos

26 Thetis

27 Pygmalion

28 Nyx

29 Nemesis

30 Tiresias

31 Hecate

#ClassicsTober #ClassicsTober23

Share or create any style of media inspired by the prompt for the day - illustration story, poetry, artefacts, video, translation, anything! Do as many as you like. Share with the hashtags above.

#classicstober #ClassicsTober23 #ancient history #ancient Greek myth #greek myth #prompts list #writing #writing prompts #drawing prompts #greek mythology #ancient greek mythology #classical civilisation

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gemsofgreece · 2 years

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Bare breasted Minoans could also simply mean that they had no taboo about women's breasts, as there are (even today) cultures where women showing their breasts is socially acceptable. Not everything they depicted has to be sexualised (just because we see it from a modern view) or related to fertility. (not accusing YOU of sexualising ancient paintings, ofc, but I have seen people do it)

I agree that Minoans must have not sexualised breasts in the sense of turning them on. At the same time, though, I do not believe they had a neutral “it’s just another body part” mindset. If this was the case, perhaps the clothing would simply leave the breasts bare along with other body parts, since the Minoan society would be body positive. However, as we can see in the picture below,

it’s not that the Minoan fashion simply is chill with the body. It actually goes out of its way to emphasise the breasts only: long skirt, waist covered, back covered, sleeves present, boobies OUT.

It also helps that we know that they worshipped goddesses of fertility. While I was searching sources for the women post, I read that there is a pretty large number of skeletons of pregnant Minoan women excavated in Crete. This has made historians estimate that Minoans might have had higher than average percentages of deaths during pregnancy or labour, even for their time. If that is true, it’s no wonder they developed a religion focusing on female deities of fertility. In such a society, breasts could even become a sign of success or of being blessed by the gods - either promising that the woman would bear kids successfully or proving that the woman brought many children to the world and kept them alive successfully.

Of course these speculations are mine, I may be totally wrong. I do believe though that breasts were particularly significant for the Minoans but in a more sacred way; as life-givers. Which technically is their real significance anyway.

People today will sexualise just about everything, even things much less suggestive, so no hope there.

#greece #history #Minoan culture #ancient civilisations #minoan civilization #women in history #Crete #Greek islands #Greek history #anon #mail

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sid-rat · 5 months

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studying classics is kinda crazy ngl. one minute my friend and i are laughing about how the city diyonisia would have been such a good time and then i have a suddenly have an existential crisis remembering that this all went down over two thousand years ago and all these complex stories about misery, yearning, romance, greed, pride, intellect and peace perfectly show that the human hasn’t changed in essence since the dawn of time, and how the words of some old greek bloke in a dress could comfort, challenge, resonate with and destroy my little 21st century life without even being able to write them down. and all before 11:30 on a tuesday.

#classics #school #dark academia #classical civilisation #ancient greece #homer

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