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Thread: Here's an interesting cylinder seal impression, about which I only know that it is from the first half of the first millennium BC and that it is currently in

Thead: Terracotta plaque from Auvergne (Auvergne-Rodano-Alps, France). Merovingian era, 5th-6th century AD, Musée d ' Archéologie nationale et domaine national de Saint-Germain-en-Laye.A very strange thing indeed... "Accepted opi

Thread: About this very interesting cylinder seal which was discovered at Ur and dated to the time of Sargon (2340-2160 BC) or to the time of Shar-kali-sharri (2224-2199 BC). De

#FolkloreThursday Thread: Looongish, but hopefully interesting...In it I will talk about ferns, feathers, thunder gods and thunder god names...Ferns are a very ancient family of plants: early fern fossils predate

Thread: Very interesting. Paper which proposes that 5,000 years ago, in Central Europe, rings, bangles and axe blades, standardized by shape and weight, were used as an early form of

Thread: This is a very strange object. Hydria. Kerameikos, Athens, Archaeological Museum in Athens. 660-580 BC. https://www.latsis-foundation.org/content/elib/book_2/kerameikos_en.pdf Why is it strange? Well, the vessel's body is divide

Thread: According to ethnographic data from the late 19th, early 20th century, there once was a custom in Carpathian mountains of Serbia and in Dinaric mountains of Montenegro for children

Thread: there is something very interesting about the story "How King Midas got to have donkey's ears". It goes like this: Pan and Apollo have a musical competition. Tmolus, god

Thread: This is an example of a Neolithic shaft hammer axe...It is made of stone. A hole was drilled through it, and a shaft is fixed into it. Nothing special...Except

Thread: This is the so called Giant's Ring, a late Neolithic henge monument at Ballynahatty, near Shaw's Bridge, Belfast, Northern Ireland... Inside the enclosure, east of the centre, is a

Thread: The bronze bands from the gates of Balawat, ancient city located near Nimrud. These gates were erected by Shalmaneser III (859-824 BCE), king of Assyria, and the scene depicts

Thread: Tin is a silvery, malleable metal. It became super important when it was discovered that when mixed with copper, it turns soft copper into hard bronze... What is interesting