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Call me old fashioned, but an animal hero I often turn to is Aesop’s quiet Tortoise, who shakes off the Hare’s cocky bravado. Some of Aesop’s life may be apocryphal, but as a 7thc bce former Greek slave, he knew pain & struggle —often his underdogs won the day 🐢 #WyrdWednesday
Check out @britishmuseum’s travel-guides to various ancient civilisations around the world, including: #Persepolis (in 500 BC), #Nineveh (7thC BC), #Rome (1stC BC) & #Egypt (Thebes: 13thC BC): https://t.co/itrMg5bWwI (links to other sites at bottom)
#travel #travelhistory
Significant aspect 15thC-!7thC Masterpieces rediscovered by our research-Rank of Sitters by Greatest Masters-5 Historic Monarchs-1481 Louis XI-1515 Francis I-1542 Elizabeth I-1632 Charles II-1543 Henrietta Maria-Also Rubens 1635 Archduke Ferdinand-VanDyck's 1629 Marshal Tserclaes
Reconstruction of the Anglo-Saxon royal palace complex of Gefrin (Yeavering), Northumberland, as it may have appeared in the early 7thC. Spit-roasted beef was a major item of the diet there and in the foreground is a droveway for cattle. [©English Heritage]
The kids a bit grown up
#7thC #TrustMFB #webtoon #Linewebtoon
7thC #AngloSaxon 'princess' buried w/ necklace of #gold & silver pendants & #glass palm cups https://t.co/EonWj5BYRC