The Great Flood may not be a myth. The flood appears in ancient Sumerian, in the Hindu Matsya Purana, in the Mesopotamian Epic of Gilgamesh, in the Bible & with ancient Greeks w/ Zeus' flooding of the world in Ovid's Metamorphoses. Scientists have found evidence in the Black Sea.

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Maria Sibylla Merian (1647-1717), German naturalist and scientific illustrator who left her husband and traveled to Suriname to study in an age of extreme restriction on women

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Excited to share the latest addition to my shop: Gilgamesh and the Dream of Endiku Original Painting Epic Poem from Ancient Mesopotamia Sumerian Art History Sumeria Uruk Humbaba Mythology https://t.co/hvrdyuP63p

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Glad to hear the Savage Cimmerian is back with Marvel. My life when I was a kid was Savage Sword of Conan ⚔️ and Conan Saga magazines. Just a quick-o-destroy sketch of him.

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I do think old books are beautiful in their own right, but it's much easier to make audiences gasp with wonder when your slides are filled with images from/by Seba, Audubon, Merian, Gould, Scott, Shaw, Curtis, Bartholomew, Becker, etc. Sigh.

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You can see the work of both Merian and Graff, including these watercolour paintings, in our free display about the collections of the Museum’s founder Hans Sloane in Room 90a: https://t.co/J3wyHL7uhI

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Maria Sibylla Merian and her daughter Dorothea Graff were pioneering painters and printmakers famous for their scientific illustrations. In 1699 they travelled to Surinam in South America where they made extensive notes and sketches of the colourful wildlife

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Remember what is 'Win of Pyr', and how the Sumerian fairytale 'Ali Baba and the 40 thieves' finishes; the Lands of Ur, the morning after death, the tears of the Sun, the sacred tongues of will and sacred mummy darkness; protuberatic rage gone out of the dead night's stomach.

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Doctor Jeremiah Cimmerian 'u'

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Spectacular images from 17/18C German artist/naturalist Maria Merian's pioneering scientific expedition to S America

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Maria Sibylla Merian (1647-1717) German naturalist/scientific illustrator who left her husband and traveled to Suriname to study

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Johanna Helena Herolt, daughter of the famed was a gifted botanical artist in her own right

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Maria Sibylla Merian (1647-1717) German naturalist/scientific illustrator who left her husband and traveled to Suriname to study

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Close up detail of the Merian Palm Superwide Wallpaper one of the many TB prints on display in our new Trade Showroom

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Exhibition | The Treasury Collection: Works by Maria Sibylla Merian https://t.co/llqyvdZOFK

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German-born botanical artist Maria Sibylla Merian was born on this date in 1647. This is "Caterpillar and Butterfly."

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Origin of King Kong goes back to adventurers of the 19th century Africa.
Mr. Merian C. Cooper was obsessed with gorillas since age 6 (cont)

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