A 7000-year-old road has been unearthed off the coast of Croatia revealing insights into the ancient Hvar culture’s engineering knowledge.
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sanrio & pokemon carved crystals | source
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Detail from "Descent of the Ganges." Mamallapuram, India. Sculptures çivaïtes. 1921.
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Got this Faceless Man at the Goodwill Outlet
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Carved wooden gate panels
Debar, Macedonia
Houses in Debar are gated, as elsewhere in Macedonian towns. Masonry walls surround private courtyards, and a wooden portal secures entry. A clay-tiled wooden cap element protects the wall from rain or snow. (photo 1988)
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I wish I could st>b my thighs till the bl00d spatters my sheets
I wish I could be a crime scene <3
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Ancient Rock Carvings Under Threat! In the southern province of Mersin, the historical Adamkayalar reliefs face a dire situation, as treasure hunters have inflicted damage upon these ancient marvels.
Murat Durukan, a leading academic from Mersin University, calls for immediate measures to protect these carvings, comparing their significance to the famed Nemrut and Göbeklitepe sites.
These remarkable rock sculptures, including figures of men, women, children, and an ibex, are believed to date back to the early Roman era, yet their full story remains a mystery.
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11th century Surya temple of Jhalrapatan.
Rajasthan, India
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Denderah - Carvings with Cleopatra VII and her son Ptolemy XV Caesar
The colossal carving of Cleopatra VII Philopator (51-30 BC) and her son Ptolemy XV Caesarion (44-30 BC) before the gods, on the south exterior wall of Temple of Dendera. The large goddess on the right, the first of a procession of deities not included in the photograph, is Hathor. The present temple at Dendera is essentially a Ptolemaic structure, with the exception of the mammisi (or 'birth house') erected by Nectanebo I (380-362 BC), which represents the earliest surviving structure of the complex, and later Roman additions, such as the first hypostyle hall, built by the Emperor Tiberius (42 BC-AD 37). There is evidence, though, that the temple was built on the site of a previous one, dating at least from the early New Kingdom (around 1500 BC) with suggestions of structures being present in the area at the time of Pepy I (2321-2287 BC). The temple, one of the best preserved in Egypt, is dedicated to Hathor. The goddess is usually represented as a cow, often with the solar disc between the horns, in human form with, similarly, the solar disc between cow horns, such as in this case, or as a woman with cow’s ears. Her name means ‘house of Horus’ and, as the living king was identified with Horus, Hathor was considered the divine mother of the pharaoh, who had ‘son of Hathor’ as one of his royal titles. It is then certainly not a coincidence that Cleopatra decided to have this colossal scene carved onto a wall of the temple of Hathor.
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