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To celebrate the birth anniversary of #CharlesDarwin the doodles Darwin's children made in his “On the Origin of Species” manuscript.
https://t.co/9OeLKUVduT #OnThisDay 1809

Incantation bowls were buried upside-down at the entrances of homes in Mesopotamia,so as to trap demons who tried to enter the house. This 7th century bowl with Aramaic inscription was prepared to protect Abuna bar Geribta and Ibba bar Zawithai from a series of evil forces.

These 2,000 year old embroidered woolen textile fragments were buried under a thick layer of blue clay in a Xiongnu grave, in the thickly wooded Sudzuktè pass in Mongolia. The fragments probably came from Syria or Palestine,and were embroidered in NW India https://t.co/9phjsSldDL

The oldest known depiction of the Trojan Horse can be found on the so-called Mykonos vase, c. 670 BC. The neck of the pithos shows the descent of the Greeks from the wooden horse. His hooves rest upon little wheels, and in the body and neck of the horse are seven windows visible.

This grave stele preserves the oldest complete song that has survived to our times. Translated from Greek:

While you live, shine
Have no grief at all
Life exists only a short while
And time demands an end.

The Seikilos epitaph was found near Aydın, Turkey.1st -2nd century AD

In Petronius' satirical novel, the Satyricon (A.D. 60s), Trimalchio recited a poem to the effect that life was short and should be enjoyed before becoming a skeleton like the one he displayed. This lovely Roman miniature bronze skeleton may have been used in the same manner.

Archaeologists discover mysterious void deep within Great Pyramid of Giza https://t.co/TD8zzHuzv4 more on this story

A red-figure kalpis decorated with an owl framed by olive branches.
480 - 470 BC Used for carrying and pouring water https://t.co/360tDX4cA1

Roman intaglio with a portrait of Julia Domna, wife of Emperor Septimius Severus,and mother of Caracalla. 200–210 CE https://t.co/2o5UzQ1Dmq

A heart touching artistic interpretation of a young woman and her baby son,laid to rest upon a swan's wing,6,000 years ago in Vedbæk,Denmark