May132013
victusinveritas: breakingnews: Bulldozer destroys Mayan pyramid in Belize AP: A construction company has essentially destroyed one of Belize’s largest Mayan pyramids with backhoes and bulldozers to extract crushed rock for a road-building project, authorities announced on Monday. The head of the Belize Institute of Archaeology, Jaime Awe, said the destruction at the Nohmul complex in northern Belize was detected late last week. The ceremonial center dates back at least 2,300 years and is the most important site in northern Belize, near the border with Mexico. Archaeological world stands back and says in a unified voice: “What the fuck?!?!”

victusinveritas:

breakingnews:

Bulldozer destroys Mayan pyramid in Belize

AP:

A construction company has essentially destroyed one of Belize’s largest Mayan pyramids with backhoes and bulldozers to extract crushed rock for a road-building project, authorities announced on Monday.

The head of the Belize Institute of Archaeology, Jaime Awe, said the destruction at the Nohmul complex in northern Belize was detected late last week. The ceremonial center dates back at least 2,300 years and is the most important site in northern Belize, near the border with Mexico.

Archaeological world stands back and says in a unified voice: “What the fuck?!?!”

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7PM
sadighgallery: Ancient Phoenician. Fused glass beads of various colors and designs. Restrung into a necklace. 500-300 BC (24”)

sadighgallery:

Ancient Phoenician. Fused glass beads of various colors and designs. Restrung into a necklace. 500-300 BC (24”)

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7PM
forgottenancients: Vessel in the form of a boar…. Proto-Elamite, 3100-2900 BC, Southwestern Iran. Ceramic and paint. PIGGY!!

forgottenancients:

Vessel in the form of a boar….

Proto-Elamite, 3100-2900 BC, Southwestern Iran. Ceramic and paint.

PIGGY!!

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7PM
Vegas is calling me….

Vegas is calling me….

(Source: sospiderman, via thepastiswonderful)
7PM

whiskey-smiles:

peashooter85:

Scrimshaw powder horn belonging to Tim Tansel, 1836..
6PM

art-of-swords:

Fighting Knife

  • Dated: late 1800s-early 1900s
  • Culture: Tlingit (“People of the Tides”), Northwest Coast of America
  • Medium: steel, leather, cord, and horn inlaid with abalone shell
  • Measurements: Overall - w:2.50 d:6.00 l:40.40 cm (w:15/16 d:2 5/16 l:15 7/8 inches); Blade - l:21.00 cm (l:8 1/4 inches)

After Europeans introduced firearms, the native dagger was gradually transformed from a weapon into a status symbol worn in a sheath that hung around the neck. That is probably the case with these fine daggers, both of which have elaborately carved hilts. One depicts a grotesque face with a fish on its head, and the other shows a bear head over a supine human.

Source: © 2012 Cleveland Museum of Art
May122013

ancientart:

Golden plate engraved with two goats in the centre, Achaemenid Empire, 4-5th century BC.

Courtesy & currently located at the Reza Abbasi Museum, Iran. Photo taken by TruthBeethoven

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May112013

f-l-e-u-r-d-e-l-y-s:

Katsuyo Aoki: Porcelain skulls

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May102013
lunarvibrations: Giant Ammonite

lunarvibrations:

Giant Ammonite

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May92013
Helmet on display in the Olympia Archaeological Museum, Peloponnese - Greece

Helmet on display in the Olympia Archaeological Museum, Peloponnese - Greece

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