#Antiquities

Anand Ranganathan

ARanganathan72

134 years after the legal dispute first began to be heard in the courts, "Enough is enough! #AyodhyaHearing must conclude by 5 pm today", says the Chief Justice of the

John Tobias

therealsaibot

That’s a good question... and a good excuse to dive into #Raiden’s journey through the early #MortalKombat games >-|-o}More than any other character, Raiden developed over time and his

⭒Amani⭒ 🧉

Amani90__

A list of places I think you should visit in GolanRoman hot spring at Hamat Gader The Byzantine monastery of Kursi with it’s beautiful mosaic floor Qal'at al-Hisn (Hippos) don’t

Erin L. Thompson

artcrimeprof

Dear Timeline Auctions: maybe consider changing up who makes the stuff you sell as priceless antiquities? If I can identify the same sculptor I get just a wee bit suspicious.

Pebble makes progress

PebbleMakes

The kind of rp that @pinkdadger and I do usually involves a few days/weeks of elaborate worldbuilding to determine what the setting is, what my situation is, what the extent

Michel Lara

VeraCausa9

A thread on Classical antiquities I've recently found: Limestone funerary stele with antithetical sphinxes. Pairs of opposing sphinxes were used as guardians on funerary monuments & shrines. ca. 475–450 B.C.

Dr. Stephennie Mulder

stephenniem

Oops! Looks like someone hasn't read the UNESCO 1970 convention. Manuscripts are in fact explicitly protected, as are *cough* incunabula. Let's have a thread about provenance, UNESCO, and the priciest

Dr Laura McAtackney

LMcAtackney

The media reporting on the removal of orientalising and sexualising 19thC decorative arts outside an international 5 * hotel in Dublin has been disappointing. There have been many opinions on

𓋹𓍑𓋴Nyatsimba Mutota

lumekaaveknew

In “an Egyptian Hieroglyphic Dictionary” compiled by Sir E A Wallis Budge (an English Egyptologist, Orientalist, and philologist) the word KHENT means THE BIGINNING, the LAND SOUTH OF EGYPT. KHENTI

Sarah DEMOCRACY IS BACK Parcak

indyfromspace

*The Egyptologist has entered the chat room* Sit down a spell, y'all. I need to talk about this viral video, and give you some context. Been working in Egypt for

Mandroid

Bigbounce01

A #thread about some scary things discovered by archeologists.1. Tomb of Thousands of Martyrs Standing among the layers of white bones, the expert was also stunned. It turns out that

Dr. Stephennie Mulder

stephenniem

Unless they want to deal in looted objects, collectors, dealers, and auction houses have to get serious about transparent #provenance. A few facts @Yael_Rice and I have gathered over the

Ibn-e-Hasan🎷

saeedma08417161

Judaism & Old Testament Part6.اس سلسلہ وار تھریڈ میں آج حضرت یوسف کا زکر کر لیتے ہیں۔ یہاں یہ امر بھی دلچسب ہے کہ حضرت یوسف کا زکر بھی ان

Martyn Barber

MartynBarber2

#UrbanPrehistory time. I know from experience that threads with St*n*h*ng* in them can attract a bit of attention, but what about a sarsen-strewn traffic junction in Swindon? With a church,

FACT

discovertruth0

Thread1)Pineal gland - third eye: The pineal gland, conarium, epiphysis cerebri, pineal organ, or pineal body, or endocrine gland, is located deep in the middle of the human brain in an

Nick Sutton

NickPSutton

#NZArchaeologyWeek is going ahead this year (24th April to 2 May) with online and some in-person events planned (the latter contingent on local COVID-19 Alert Levels). Some events are up