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GARGI VACHAKNAVI -Celebrating Women Of India (every Thursday)
Gargi Vachaknavi (born about 9th to 7th century BCE) was an ancient Indian philosopher. In Vedic literature, she is honored as a great natural philosopher, renowned expounder of the Vedas, ..
thinking about Jar with anthropomorphic feet - earthenware - 6 ¼ ″ x 4 9⁄16 ″ - Qijia culture, China - c. 2300-1500 BCE
#HowIUseReference ✨ A few examples from #aCompendiumOfWitches
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Viduca, I century BCE Gaul
Today in #history: Alexander the Great defeats Darius III of Persia in the Battle of Gaugamela. (331 BCE) #OnThisDay
Read more: https://t.co/RTtRXCZuq1
Wonderful interior of a Greek vase showing Odysseus giving Neoptolemos the arms of his father Achilles, painted by Douris & attributed to Python as potter, Athens 500-450BCE, found in Cerveteri, now in Vienna. The exterior shows the contest for the arms between Odysseus & Ajax
A scene depicted on a wall painting from the Theban tomb of the 18th Dynasty high official Nebamun, who lived around 1350 BCE. Nebamun is shown hunting birds, in a small boat with his wife Hatshepsut & their young daughter, in the marshes of the Nile. 1/3
Remains of a painted plaster pavement from a palace of Akhenaten. New Kingdom, 18th Dynasty, Amarna Period, reign of Akhenaten, ca. 1353-1336 BCE. Now in the Egyptian Museum, Cairo. JE 33030/1 #Egypt #Archaeology
What an excellent amber carving! Look at the details, a small bottle held by a woman!
This is an Etruscan sculpture made ~5th C BCE, depicting a couple on the sofa. Woman is dressed in a pointed hat, a tunic & pointed shoes.
Ones a fibula - amber has 2 holes on the back side
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The Minoan Civilization existed from roughly 3000 BCE (Before the Common Era) through 1450 BCE. That’s about 5000 years ago!
Saffron Wave takes place in 1625 BCE, a few hundred years before the general time frame for the collapse of the civilization, before the Mycenaean Greeks.
I want to know what the relative elasticity of trousers were in 300BCE otherwise I will never feel right about this Alexander and Bagoas comic.
a49538f9-e8b4-48ae-bce0-083be4d74b0c #generative #art #procedural #creativecoding
Languages of Ancient Italy, prior to Celtic Invasions (600BCE) https://t.co/X5BhBdPfRw #MapPorn
New twitter (and soon youtube) avatar up, thanks to @cyangmou. It's a recreation of one of the Priest-Kings of Uruk, who appear in iconography there during the 4th millennium BCE.
Cloudcuckooland - Nephelokoggygia - Νεφελοκοκκυγία
The great city in the sky created by the birds in #Aristophanes' comedy The Birds (written 414 BCE).
Some of the #AncientPlacesWeLike are just a flight of fancy, like this place.
#AncientFiction #Kyknos #GreekComedy #Classics
The Fantastic Adventures of Alexander the Great Part 2:
Alexander the Great being awoken once again by a nightmare of his bathysphere incident, while on campaign in Asia.
circa. 328 BCE.
(Hephaestion is used to it by now and tries to comfort his boyfriend as best he can.)
Alexander the Great inside his bathysphere, seeing the ocean underwater for the first time.
circa. 330 BCE.
(Sorry I got lazy with the second image, I'd love an actual artist to redo my crappy art attempt 🤣)
The Land of Punt - on the east coast of Africa, perhaps as far south as Somalia. Egyptian trade expeditions from the C25th to the C11th BCE for gold, ivory, rare trees, spices etc. Later it became the stuff of legends.
#AncientAfrica #AncientEgypt #AncientPlacesWeLike