Echo Of Our Own

I hope there’s an afterlife so that whoever made this pot 2,000 years ago can brag that their cookware is so good it’s still usable literally millennia later. Something about this object being lost for centuries and then rediscovered, and being put (successfully) to its original purpose again is so pleasing to me.

Trento, Castello del Buonconsiglio, Torre d’Aquilla (The Eagle’s Tower)

Source: https://reddit.com/r/ArtefactPorn/comments/dsl5ot/1080x843_limestone_fragment_egypt_late_6th/

sapiens: a brief history of humankind

(link 2, 3)

Split-twig figurines from the Archaic Period of southwest North America

faces dated from 2,000 years ago carved in stone at the Lajes Archaeological Site in Manaus, Brazil

obsessed with these little guys....

To be named is to be loved.

Isn’t it wonderful?!

CIL IV.8805

"It took me years to realize that Inca and pre-Columbian architecture is directly related to the structure of the corn kernels. In a western model of thought, one might judge the shapes as irregular, but in a universal thought, everything is a correlation between the cosmos, science, art, and humanity (...) The organic growth forms are represented in a logarithmic way, and these pentagonal, hexagonal, and heptagonal blocks coincide with the corn forms. The lack of symmetry in the walls helps dissipate the energy of the earthquakes. They were incredible engineers. Japanese researchers studied Machu Picchu after the Kobe earthquake and realized that these Inca structures had not been damaged by it. " - Juan Casco