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

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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.
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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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It's the Day of Zeus / Jupiter's Day /

Meet this Etruscan bronze statuette of Tinia who was identified with Zeus and Jupiter. He was created between 500-475 BCE.

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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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Today, it's / who shows off his brawny backside for 😊

He wears the pelt of the Nemean Lion as a trophy, and his right hand once held his signature weapon: a club.

Bronze statuette from 30 BCE - 20 CE Rome

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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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Nude woman holding monkeys ~ c. 945–525 BCE, Egyptian

This figure alludes to the goddess Bastet. In particular, the details such as the monkeys evoke "The Return of the Faraway Goddess” myth.

She’s our pick for and

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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
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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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It's the Day of Helios / Sol's Day /

This is a Greek silver Kylix, 3rd century BCE, from Pantikapaion in the Crimea, and depicts Helios happily driving his sun chariot.

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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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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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