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A powerful & important article on life for young people in Gaza after a year of horrifying military violence
Proud to have been involved in editing & placing it.
'In Gaza, we have one question for the rest of the world: aren’t we human, just like you?'
theguardian.com/commentisfre…
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Yup - features a Walrus but not the Beatles. Tom can explain.
mainlymuseums.com/post/1283/…
@ScribblerTom #museum #museumfromhome #heritage
Mermaids, ‘scare devils’, and an overstuffed Walrus at London’s eccentric @HornimanMuseum | my article for the wonderful @mainlymuseums
📸 19th century 'ningyo' or 'Human Fish' from Japan (photo my own) #Horniman
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A join Iraqi-French archaeological mission have uncovered a Lamassu at the Dur-Sharrukin archaeological site, Khorsabad, in Nineveh, Iraq.
Cornfield by Moonlight, with the Evening Star (cropped)
Samuel Palmer, c.1830
#WyrdWednesday
‘The Tomb of Böcklin’, by Ferdinand Keller (1901-02)
Painted as a tribute to Swiss painter, Arnold Böcklin
#ofdarkandmacabre
"Never regret thy fall, O Icarus of the fearless flight, For the greatest tragedy of them all, Is never to feel the burning light."
Attributed to Oscar Wilde
The Lament for Icarus, by Herbert Draper (1898) #MythologyMonday
In 1979 in Crete, archaeologists made a grisly find. Preserved mid-ceremony by an earthquake, a boy of about 18 had just been sacrificed. The knife was likely used to cut his throat & the vessel to collect his blood
c1700-1600BC (1/2)
#Findsfriday #OfDarkAndMacabre 📸my own
The 'blood bucket' is marked with a bull (L) - a major motif for the ancient Minoans. Given the victim's age, some have wondered if this practice could have given rise to the minotaur myth & the sacrifice of Athenian youths
R: 300 CE (likely Roman)
Via @AshmoleanMuseum
Anubis was a canine headed god of Ancient Egypt, associated with funerary rites, mummification, and cemeteries.
This wooden likeness was possibly used as a mask by the priests of Anubis (Late period: 664 - 332 BCE)
📸 My own via @EgyptianMuseumC #WyrdWednesday
Capela dos Ossos (Chapel of Bones), Faro, Portugal.
Built in 1816, this tiny bone chapel incorporates the remains of 1245 monks.
📸 my own
#ofdarkandmacabre #TombTuesday
A mural from the Tomb of Menna (c1419-1372 BC) at Luxor's West Bank depicting the weighing of the deceased's heart against the Feather of Truth
Osiris can be seen presiding over the judgement (R), while Thoth records the result
📸 My own #TombTuesday arce.org/project/tomb-menna-…
Skull of an aurochs (c245,000 - 186,000BC), an extinct species of ox considered the ancestor of modern cattle
Depicted in cave paintings such as those at Lascaux, as well as Ancient Egyptian reliefs & Bronze Age figurines
#FindsFriday #FossilFriday
📸my own Via @MuseumofLondon
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Franklin Carmichael, one of the Canadian Group of Seven. Mirror Lake 1929
In Norse myth, Odin and the other gods bind the wolf Fenrir on an island in the middle of the great lake Amsvartnir (‘Pitch black’), where he will remain until Ragnarök, the Twilight of the Gods #MythologyMonday
🎨Arthur Rackham, 1910
worldhistory.org/Fenrir/
