Jens Notroffさんのイラストまとめ

Also worth noting the #iconography of #aurochs depictions here:

The vital large animal with aggressively lowered head and horns vs. the slain game - legs bent, tongue sticking out (here some more examples from #GöbekliTepe):

https://t.co/6y9q074oyf

Archaeologists, the raccoons of science? 🤔😉

This one here looks particularly interesting. And ... somehow vaguely familiar. 🤔

https://t.co/v3cQ2f69yc

This what I mean:

[Contains image of human remains!]

The power of great #archaeology #illustration: Reviving a past long gone, gently shifting the focus from corroded object - to the person it once belonged to …

@PrehiStorytellr @MuseumHalle Gerade der Rot-Dunkel-Kontrast hat so was Hellboy-/Mignola-lastiges … spricht vielleicht auch einfach den Comic-Nerd in mir an. 😉

"Our imagination is struck only by what is great; but the lover of natural philosophy should reflect equally on little things."

Happy birthday to Alexander von #Humboldt. The naturalist, geographer, polymath, and explorer was born #OnThisDay 252 years ago.

It gets worse: According #Brugger’s record of #Tatunca’s story 2,000 Nazi soldiers made it to Brazil in WWII, teaming up with the #Ugha. Their (white) descendants still living in the underground cities to this day, the rightful heirs to all this ancient super technology etc. pp.

These Gothic ruins seem to have been a favorite motif of romantic landscape painter Caspar David Friedrich, who was born in nearby Greifswald in 1774 - and who included them into several if his paintings, including (typical for his works) some fantastic, allegorical landscapes.

And the dabbling artist‘s final interpretation …

Remembering the untimely death of Klaus Schmidt (1953-2014) on this day. Now already 7 years ago the #GobekliTepe project lost its director - and we a dear colleague and teacher:

https://t.co/TIUzS0d52u