Vilius Petrauskas, Siege of Nineveh capital of Assyrian Empire, (612 BCE)

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On here are an exquisite bit of Cretan filigree jewelry from-almost unbelievably-7th century BCE & a gold plaque depicting the Bee-Goddess Melissa from Rhodes about 1,000 years later. She fed the baby Zeus honey not milk as in top of Poussin pic. He loved her for it

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I traced a picture of myself and redrew me in the Ancient Minoan Civilization city of Knossos in period accurate clothing circa. 1600 BCE. (sorry)

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Marcus Jivani II,aka MJ
(마커스 지반니 2세)
BCE ver

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Hades and Persephone in a four-horse chariot.
Painting from the back of a marble throne found inside the Tomb of Eurydice in Macedonia, Greece. ~ 340 BCE

https://t.co/942E5cBPNX
https://t.co/mlH5SXYv8d

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Bruegel used lead white as his white pigment in The Wedding Dance. Instructions for its preparation go back to 300 BCE in Europe and China! This makes it one of the oldest synthetic pigments.

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"I took my love, I took it down
Climbed a mountain and I turned around
And I saw my reflection in the snow covered hills
'Til the landslide brought it down"

Clovis, a tale of 12,000 BCE.
Full Graphic Novel, on sell here.
https://t.co/HIUbgOkmpk

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1740 at SDMA; The form:
“Purusha is both immanent in the manifested world and yet transcendent to it. This causes the projection of the universe in space and time.” fm of ~1500BCE

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TIL: the name duodenum comes from the Medieval Latin ‘duodenum digitorium’ meaning ‘space of 12 digits’. This originated from the Greek physician Herophilus (353-280 BCE) who described its length as about the breadth of twelve fingers!

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The earliest recorded cleft lip repair occurred in 390 BCE. The patient, an 18 y.o. peasant named Wey Young-Chi, was operated on by his governor’s personal surgeon. Wey then joined the Imperial Army, helped suppress a revolt, and became Governor General of 6 provinces!

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Kaliakra is a long and narrow headland in the southern Dobruja region of the northern Bulgarian Black Sea coast. The fortress at cape Kaliakra, in continuous use since the 4th century BCE, was the last Bulgarian fortress to fall under the onslaught of the Ottoman invaders in 1396

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Buckling up for another night shift - here's a selection from

Maurice Sendak ( 1928 - 2012 )
Tove Jansson( 1914 -2001 )
Albert Uderzo (b. 1925 )
Anonymous mason ( circa 280, 000ish BCE - found Kelstern, Lincolnshire, 2010 )

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"Non spetta a noi ridurre lo spread" frase infelice uscita dalla bocca di Christine sul ruolo della che ieri ha fatto crollare le borse europee
https://t.co/XMBmHJLQzX

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day 6!!!

Name: Soli
Title: Sunstone
Age: 17
Time period: European Bronze Age (appx 1324 BCE)
Signature color: coral

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day 5

Name: Posi
Title: Sunny Arinna
Age: 22
Time period: Hittite New Kingdom (appx 1324 BCE)
Signature color: soft yellow/violet

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The year of the three Emperors in an Achaemenid way. Within the span of one year (424-423 BCE) three Persian kings (Xerxes II, Sogdianus, Darius II) followed one another. A messy entanglement of Palace intrigues and familial feuds led up to that result.

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