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Colossuses Memnon (Statue of Amenhotep III), Vasily Polenov

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Leviathan by voitv

Medium: oil,canvas

As the moon waxed full the ground writhed like flesh riddled with maggots. And pulling themselves from the fetid earth the undead legions rose to resume their conquest of the living

if any of you ever think that archaeology is boring let me just remind you that archaeologists managed to lose king tut’s mummified penis and for a very long time were convinced that someone had stolen it until a ct scan revealed that it was just. hidden in the sand nearby

Their brief and passionate lives are dominated by the elemental hatred that Morgoth bears them as the children of Húrin, the man who dared to defy him to his face. Against them Morgoth sends his most formidable servant, Glaurung, a powerful spirit in the form of a huge wingless dragon of fire, in an attempt to fulfill the curse of Morgoth and destroy the children of Húrin.” Paintings by Alan Lee

Buried City | Necromancers District by Konstantin Vavilov

Big Trouble in Little China (1986)

Death Dealer Deadwood

František Dymáček  -  Untitled    (ink on paper, 1994)