Herwebenkhet, Chantress of Amun, prostrates herself before the god Geb in the form of a crocodile and drinks from the waters that will unite her with the gods and assure safe passage to the afterlife.
The strongly built shape of the body of the deceased exemplifies a new image for the female figure in this period. It contrasts with the slender images that were in vogue earlier.
Third Intermediate Period, 21st Dynasty, c. 1069-945 BC. Now in the Egyptian Museum, Cairo. SR 19325 Read more
i could not survive in ancient greece i would be spending all my money on red figure kraters or whatever. my husband would come home like where did all of the funds for influencing votes go and i’d be like honey look this amphora’s got achilles and ajax playing dice on it
my wealthy husband: i thought i had some drachmas stashed away over here
the pottery i just bought with my husband’s drachmas featuring an owl dressed up like a soldier:
This is a blog post I wrote to talk about: 1) my university experience of academic writing; 2) my frustration with academia, especially the humanities; 3) my struggles with writing and with my mental health; 4) my experience of teaching as an environment which aims to encourage the expression of new ideas; and 5) my project to create a space for ancient studies which encourages people to share their ideas, including an outline of how it would work and how it would benefit our subject. I hope you will find this valuable. I hope you will be happy to support the project. Thank you.
Level 1: There are no surviving records of what this was about.
Level 2: There are some surviving records of what this was about, but they’re from centuries after the fact and may be speculative or fabricated.
Level 3: We have writings from a contemporary primary source regarding what this was about, but it’s often unclear whether the writer is speaking from first-hand experience, and also they’re known to have sometimes just made shit up.
Level 4: We have writings from multiple contemporary primary sources which broadly corroborate each other regarding what this was about, but – and hear me out – what if they’re all lying.
I love you people going into “useless” fields I love you classics majors I love you cultural studies majors I love you comparative literature majors I love you film studies majors I love you near eastern religions majors I love you Greek, Latin, and Hebrew majors I love you ethnic studies I love you people going into any and all small field that isn’t considered lucrative in our rotting capitalist society please never stop keeping the sacred flame of knowledge for the sake of knowledge and understanding humanity and not merely for the sake of money alive
The Appalachian Mountains, Atlas Mountains, Scottish Highlands and Scandinavian Mountains were all once part of the same “Pangea Central Mountain Range” millions of years ago before Earth’s continents split.
Hologram Carvilio’s ring. found in Grottaferrata, southeast of Rome. Date: c. 1st century AD. The man died at the age of 18, and the ring with his image was worn by his mother on a daily basis. The object is made of gold and quartz.
Saying goodnight when you’re online is so funny because every time you’ll be posting 15 minutes later like “I’m not an expert on the ottoman empire but”
to elaborate: one of the main dairy foodstuffs produced by norse farmers in the viking era was a reputedly-delicious yogurt called “skyr.” if we assume that the “-im” suffix in “skyrim” is analogous to the english “-land,” we can (and SHOULD) reasonably conclude that “skyrim” translates to “yogurtland”
