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So today I was learning about warfare tactics in antiquity, & it turns out camels scare horses. anyways, horses & camels aren't related and the earliest known ancestor of the camel lived in North America 50 million years ago and was the size of a rabbit and lived in south dakota

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2021-07-29

But when my glass shows me myself indeed, Beated and chopp'd with tann'd antiquity, Mine own self-love quite contrary I read; Self so self-loving were iniquity.

—Shakespeare, Sonnet 62 ✨

Unattributed 16th century 🎨 Hall's Croft in Stratford-upon-Avon.

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2021-07-16

Today's Random fact
Belaraic slingers dominated the battlefield in antiquity, firing off lead balls at speeds of over 62mph/hr and ranges of up to 1312ft. This ridiculous range and power made slings be in use up until the creation of the crossbow and early guns

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2021-07-09

Here's the latest version of Produce Pandas in antiquity by 單中黑.

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2021-07-09

2015 art of Holy Battle Virgin Mary I made with help of . She was supposed to be a saint in new monotheistic age, but all she wanted was to go on epic adventures like heroes of antiquity.

You can see more art of her here https://t.co/MU81zKRx8y

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2021-07-08

My old sketch 'Hippolyta’s Magical Girdle' redesigned, resized & converted HiRes|HD getting ready for an offline publication
©MSP 07|21 4840X6490

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2021-07-06

Happy Father's Day to the best dad in antiquity AND in mythology. Hector deserved better!!!

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2021-06-21

The remains of a Mithraeum (Temple to the god Mithras) in London. Now underground in the Bloomberg Space, it stands a few metres from its original location. The drawing (from MOLA/Judith Dobie) reconstructs how it may have looked in antiquity

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2021-06-20

🆕 People in early medieval Europe kept reopening graves. What was thought to be isolated events, like grave robbing, is actually a regular part of funerary traditions from the 5th – 7th c. AD

Here's an on the work (🆓) https://t.co/Y84YugyXdo 1/🧵

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2021-06-18

QRT your eye art!
Mostly
I find it hard to remove the eyes entirely from the face, but I made an effort.😶

A lot of these are old OCs I fished out of antiquity but if this meme rolls around again, I will find some newer content.
Please look forward to it. <3
https://t.co/jdpYI91dd3

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2021-06-05

是新創的古風人魚孩子❤️

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2021-05-27

“His habitat in antiquity,like that of Faunus was always dells, grottos, water, woods, and wilds-ever villages, never the tilled and walled settlements of the civilized; cavern sanctuaries,not constructed temples. He was a shepherd’s god, a god of fishers and hunters, a wanderer”

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2021-05-21

For evidence of its antiquity we can trace a long enough pedigree through history, mythology, literature and art. Pomegranate has its name in Sanskrit; it appears in sculptures in Assyria and Egypt; it is mentioned in the Old Testament and in the Odyssey. https://t.co/kSIcFuktGK

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2021-05-20

Is And His Sons Antiquity’s Greatest Artwork?

https://t.co/TWGGFiNSBV

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2021-05-16