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The amphitheater of Arles (France) in the 18th century. Built in the 1st century BC under Emperor Augustus, just after the founding of the #Roman colony - one of the first stone theaters of the Roman world. #Archaeolgy
The "unicorn of Quedlinburg" or: How a narwhal tusk became a unicorn. Engraving by Nicolaus Seeländer from 1716. #ArchaeologicalMistakes
@prehistoryRMO @WeltenMuseum We did a #3D reconstruction & animation of the elk for the Landesmuseum Hannover, maybe that might help with the interpretation :) https://t.co/PBa1dGSzAX
"Past, present and future" by Kempster & Evans, 1954.
Archaeological #PaintingOfTheDay
1962 PREHISTORIC FLASH CARDS
Forget those boring flash cards 'cause here's the coolest flash cards ever made!
#vintagelove #RetroGames #wednesdaythoughts
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Archaeological #Illustration of the cena, or main meal with nine diners in the triclinium... the #Roman dining room. Nine was the socially acceptable number of diners. More was boastful and less showed a stingy host of meager means [credits CookitGallery].
Welcome to our crammed atelier!
#Archaeology #inktober2018 day 2 #archives .
#archink
The Ebstorf Map is an example of a mappa mundi (a Medieval European map of the world) [13th cent.]. The map was found in a convent in Ebstorf, in northern Germany, in 1843. It was a very large map, painted on 30 goatskins sewn together. #earlyillustration #Archaeology
#Watercolour sketch of the wesir palace in Medina Azahara, #Cordoba #Andalucía.
The magnificent caliph city was a major cultural center. Abd al-Rahman III. had the Medina Azahara built in 936 - after over 35 years of construction, 10.000 workers had done the work. #MondaySpecial
Look at the amazing colour palette of Joseph Wright of Derby. View of Mount Vesuvius from Posillipo🌋, around 1788, Yale Center for British Art, New Haven.
#painting #ArtisticTuesday #ArtofLegends