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Dionysos and Ariadne

Italian, Rome, ca. 1815, after the Antique

Attributed to Bartolomeo Pinelli (1781–1835)

Gilt terracotta

greek names: this is my son, demosthenes son of speusippus, the son of aristarchus, the son of ariston, the son of arion, the son of glaucon, great-great-great-great grandson of zeus

Archaeologists have discovered the hand and knee prints of a Pictish metal smith while excavating a settlement in Orkney.

Imprints of the smith’s hands and knees, believed to be around 1500 years old, were found on an anvil discovered in his workshop on the island of Rousay.

The building is part of a substantial Iron Age settlement at the Knowe of Swandro which is gradually being destroyed by the sea.

It is being examined as part of an excavation project directed by Dr Julie Bond and Dr Stephen Dockrill, both of the University of Bradford.

A team of scholars led by William Taylor of the Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History analyzed horse remains from an ancient Mongolian pastoral culture known as the Deer Stone-Khirigsuur Culture (ca. 1300-700 BC). Deer stones, with their beautiful deer carvings, and their accompanying stone mounds (khirigsuurs) are famous for the impressive horse burials that are found alongside them by the dozens, hundreds, or even thousands. Through careful study of skeletal remains from these burials, published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Taylor and colleagues found that Deer Stone-Khirigsuur people began using veterinary dental procedures to remove baby teeth that would have caused young horses pain or difficulty with feeding—the world’s oldest known evidence for veterinary dental care.

Apparently, this is… supposed to be the Egyptian Pharaoh and his army, drowning in the Red Sea after Moses closed it behind him (found in Speculum humanae salvationis, a book made in Mons in 15th century Belgium).

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Ibex petroglyph

Sak-Usun period, 800 BCE to 500 CE

At the State Historical open air Museum Issyk-Kull at Cholpon-Ata, Kyrgyzstan