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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
I create manga/webcomics and write film scripts! I'm currently working on Erinys & The Seer (webcomic) and FVRY (film script) #OriginalContentArtist
Most of my current projects center around Mycenaean Greece (~1200 BCE) and ancient Greek mythology.
THE ILIAD - BACKGROUND
Iliad = the story of Ilium (Troy), the city of Ilus (the grandfather of Priam). The work, 15,693 lines of hexameter, has been called this since the 5th century bce.
https://t.co/lwIxeEXnbx
Panchatantra (Five Principles) is a colourful collection of animal fables in verse & prose written in Sanskrit , 3rd BCE credited to Vishnu Sharma. This painting is from manuscript of Panchatantra`s one of the story titled as The story of Talkative Turtle @philamuseum 1/3
Medallion with a winged goddess probably from Eastern Iran, 2nd century BCE.
Gilded silver, diameter 12 cm
https://t.co/3VFaJMIv42
Hellenistic amethyst intaglio depicting a maenad holding a thyrsus in one hand and a phallus in the other, dated to the 2nd century BCE. The intaglio is set in a modern gold ring.
Opium has been actively collected since prehistoric times, since approximately 3400 BCE. The upper Asian belt of Afghanistan, Pakistan, northern India, and Burma still account for the world's largest supply of opium. And there is a city called opium in Turkey #FolkloreThursday
Roman Republic in 44 BCE, at the time of the assassination of Gaius Julius Caesar whom many modern historians chronologically mark as the Emperor zero.