Tortured and Dead Poet's disciple

Filippo Palizzi (Italian painter 1818–1899)

Excavations in Pompeii, 1870

Oil on Canvas

119.5 × 86 cm.

The pit courtyard or sunken courtyard (地坑院dikengyuan), traditional Chinese courtyard on the Loess Plateau.

Cnetizen showing the interior of a dikengyuan—renovated for nowadays living (cr住在森林深处的小精灵)

Fun Fact: One of Mexico's historic Chinatowns, La Chinesca, used to have a labyrinth of subterranean businesses and homes, due to Mexico's scorching summers.

Lead seal (bulla) of Athanasius I, Patriarch of Constantinople from 1289-1309

Egyptian tile with fish and lotus flowers, once used to decorated the palace of Ramesses II in Piramesse

New Kingdom, 19th dynasty, ca. 1279–1213 BCE

image depicts an ancient Egyptian wall painting from the tomb of Sennefer (TT96), the Mayor of Thebes during the reign of Amenhotep II in the 18th Dynasty (circa 1400 BCE).

The scene shows Sennefer seated while his wife, Meryt, presents him with a necklace.

Above the couple are two Wedjat eyes (Eyes of Horus), symbolizing protection and healing.

The tomb is famously known as the "Tomb of the Vineyards" due to the painted ceiling decorated with grapevines.

Such paintings were intended to ensure the deceased official's comfort and status in the afterlife.

Ancient Roman sarcophagus depicting the myth of Selene and Endymion, 3rd Century CE.

Galleria Doria Pamphilj, Rome

Pyramid of Unas

“The sword of Orion opens the doors of the sky. Before the doors close again the gate to the path Over the fire, beneath the holy ones as they grow dark As a falcon flies as a falcon flies, may Unis rise into this fire Beneath the holy ones as they grow dark. They make a path for Unis, Unis takes the path, Unis becomes the falcon star, Sirius.”