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day 2!

Name: Nefer-ra
Title: none
Age: 23
Time period: ancient Egyptian, 18th dynasty (appx.1324 BCE)
Signature color: Indian red


(Reposted so I can keep everything in a thread of tweets, please bear with me)

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2020-03-05

An oil lamp from Zhongshan Tombs, Warring States Period (4th century BCE), Eastern Zhou, China with monkeys!

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2020-02-16

I would like this table frame, thank you! Well, maybe not, it would be hard to keep clean. Zhongshan Burial, Warring States Period (475-221 BCE), Eastern Zhou Dynasty China, bronze inlaid with gold and silver. Plus souvenir version...

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2020-02-16

Asuka Ninomiya 42000 BCE

kofi request for geckotime

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2020-02-14

Fynx
••••
Died at 49BCE
30 years [human age]
5000 years [demon age]

Sphynx Demon, Overlord of the east side of Hell,taking care of all the ancient time demons.
Has a soft spot for cat demons. Likes entertainment.
Casino patron.
Single.

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2020-02-10


The Panchatantra or The Five Treatises is a collection of interconnected animal fables for children. It's earliest version in Sanskrit dates to 200 BCE and the stories have seeped into the culture of almost every country in the world.

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2020-02-06

District 2 (aka. Team Ancient):

Oh Yeah Woo Yeah! A nordic rock art from the Neolithic. Probably cultuating some entity, or perhaps just vibing.

And this majestic Boar Vessel, Etruscan, 600-500 BCE. A nice artisanate from where's now Italy.

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2020-01-30

It is a copy of a Shang Dynasty (16c BCE-c. 1050 BCE) Jue ritual bronze vessel. It was made in a shape where the wine could be heated over a small fire, but was too heavy to actually be used that way. It is decorated with masks (tao tie) and dragons. Some more Jue...

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2020-01-27

More Western European Venuses because there are way too many.

- 27,000 BCE in Mauern, Germany
- 21,000 BCE in Renancourt, France
- 15,000 BCE in Gönnersdorf, Germany
- 10,000 BCE in Monruz, Switzerland

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2020-01-23

The Saffron Goddess (1600 CE) is a detail from a Minoan fresco depicting a saffron harvest. A mythological griffin, a combination of a lion as the king of the beasts and the head of an eagle, stands guard. Minoan civilization flourished on Crete island, Greece, 3000-1100 BCE

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2020-01-13

Ancient China - The Spring & Autumn Period & The Warring States 

 During the Spring and Autumn Period (772-476 BCE and so called from the Spring and Autumn Annals), the Zhou government became decentralized in their move to the new capital at Luoyang...

https://t.co/v7UdCl5PVt

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2020-01-11

Ancient Egypt - The Tale of Sinuhe 

The Middle Kingdom of ancient Egypt (2000 BCE – 1700 BCE) saw the start of more formal writing which included religious scripts, administrative notes, and more in-depth fictional writing
https://t.co/AFSOwucD1g

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2020-01-02

Etruscan (?) bronze Kouros statuette. The youth wears a tebenna, a forerunner of the Roman toga. The statuette was probably dedicated in a sanctuary. Unknown maker, unknown provenance (ex Maurice Tempelsman - Robin Symes, London 1985), circa 490 BCE, 22,5 cm, J. P. Getty Museum.

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2019-12-29

Around 3000 BCE in eastern a Proto-Balto-Slavic started to diverge from

The branch of the began about 2,000 years later when Proto-Slavic deviated from Proto-Balto-Slavic.

[Image: https://t.co/sNMczVNGm1]

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2019-12-26

"Without Ceres and Bacchus, Venus freezes" by Andrea Boscoli (1560-1607)

The title is a quote from "Eunuchus" a Roman comedy by Terence (185-159 BCE):

"That saying, 'Without Ceres and Liber, Venus freezes' is absolutely true!"

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2019-12-13

Shown here is a Assyrian cylinder seal from the 8th century BCE. It depicts Marduk fighting Tiamat, the goddess of nature & chaos, who tries to destroy the world. Marduk cut her into pieces and makes the world inhabitable. This story is repeated in the myth of Osiris & in Genesis

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2019-12-10

Ptolemaic Gold Wreath. Wreaths like this one formed to resemble flowers and leaves were used to crown athletic victors throughout the world. C. c. 200-100 BCE. (Brooklyn Museum, New York). https://t.co/fgzvcZixpe

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2019-12-08

Very interesting ring with a relief depicting three Dionysiac figures, including Silenus on the left. Hellenistic, 3rd C BCE.
It's interesting, because the frame of "medallion" is interrupted, then another part of it is added. Such inaccuracy is remarkable for Greek goldsmithery

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2019-12-03

Ancient Greek Tragedy 

Greek tragedy was a popular and influential form of drama performed in theatres across ancient Greece from the late 6th century BCE. The most famous playwrights of the genre were Aeschylus, Sophocles, and Euripides...

https://t.co/atFcGn8g3a

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2019-11-24

Object of the day: oyster shell with the cartouche of Senwosret I (Kherpkara). Two pierced holes show that it was worn as a pendant – but by whom? Ca. 50 are known, most without archaeological context.

What beautiful, delicate work!

22.1.63; ca. 1961–1917 BCE

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2019-11-19