Wayne Marshall

1956, Sorunda (SE)

via #1, #2

Photos: © Sune Sundahl / ArkDes

The embrace of Niankhkhnum and Khnumhotep

Niankhkhnum means “joined to life” and Khnumhotep means “joined to the blessed state of the dead’”, and together the names can be translated as “joined in life and joined in death”

Odilon Redon  

Les Origines — Plate 2, 1883 

lithography printmaking   35.7 x 28.7 cm. 

Series of helmeted heads in profile by Francis Place, after Wenceslaus Hollar and Parmigianino 

British, 1662–78

etching 

Close-Up of the Helix Nebula

This cropped version of the Helix Nebula mosaic shows cometary-filaments embedded along a portion of the inner rim of the nebula’s red and blue gas ring. At a distance of 650 light-years, the Helix is one of the nearest planetary nebulae to Earth.