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Knitting, 2021 - by Joseph Ford, English

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Every Month BLÅVINGAD Has Something New In Its Mouth

July, 2024: A smaller BLÅVINGAD

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WIP of Lae'zel with some flat colours!

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he says hello

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In 2016 Tour de France was delayed due to llamas sitting on roads.

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Heritage News of the Week

Discoveries!

A small statue of a woman wearing a royal crown may depict Cleopatra VII, an archaeologist claims. Other archaeologists think it is likely someone else.

Honestly, it doesn't really look like other depictions of her.

Statue found near the Odeon of Herodes Atticus

Gas works near the Odeon of Herodes Atticus has led to the discovery of a statue crafted by the renowned Neo-Attic workshops.

An ancient building and gold artifacts found in the ancient Greek city of Rypes in Achaea

Recent excavations on the Trapezá plateau have uncovered an ancient building and numerous gold artifacts that archaeologists believe were part of the town of Rypes, referred to by the ancient Greek geographer Pausanias.

Tortoise engraving suggests Middle Eastern religion from 37,000 years ago

One of the oldest religious symbols from the Levant area has been discovered by researchers in Israel.

Plant pot tag among 'amazing archaeological finds'

Pieces of a plant pot tag uncovered at the 1988 Glasgow Garden Festival site have been listed among Scotland's top five archaeological discoveries of this year.

Ancient Roman chalice contained pig fat discovered in a 6th-century Anglo-Saxon tomb in England

During excavations in Scremby, Lincolnshire in 2018, archaeologists uncovered an enameled copper alloy chalice in a 6th-century AD female grave.

Earliest-known Chinese inscription in Israel turns up on a porcelain fragment

An artifact indicating historic connections between the lands of Israel and China was recently uncovered, telling stories of centuries of international travel and trade.

Croatian team finds a way to effectively and permanently preserve Stuka aircraft wreck under the sea

The ICUA Zadar team of conservators and archaeologists carried out in situ underwater conservation of the wreckage of the Junkers Ju 87 aircraft, known as the Stuka, achievement showed that it is possible to permanently protect an aircraft wreck under the sea.

This is very cool and I'm looking forward to seeing further studies on it.

Medieval bag matches Charlemagne’s burial shroud

Scholars examining a medieval silk seal bag displayed in the Queen’s Diamond Jubilee Galleries at Westminster Abbey have discovered that it matches the silk used in the burial shroud of Emperor Charlemagne.

Ancient bakery discovered in Germany

While excavating the future site of a bakery in southern Germany, archaeologists uncovered evidence of a much older bakery dating back nearly three millennia

Ancient Celtic bone pen found in southern Germany

From August to October this year, the State Office for the Preservation of Monuments in the Stuttgart Regional Council once again carried out archaeological research excavations near Altenburg.

Opulent statuettes found in Roman domus excavations

Archaeologists from the National Institute of Preventative Archaeological Research (INRAP) have uncovered three opulent bronze statuettes during excavations of a Roman domus complex in Reimes, France.

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Neolithic archery equipment found in Spanish cave

Archaeologists have recovered 7,000-year-old archery accoutrement, including arrow shafts with attached feathers and the oldest known bowstrings in Europe, in Spain's Cueva de los Murciélagos, or Cave of the Bats.

Cave of the Bats?!

Roman soldiers had a clever fix for broken armor, study finds

The research is based on a 30-pound chainmail hoard found in Bonn, Germany.

Roman road excavated in the Netherlands

A 2,000-year-old Roman road that probably led to Traiectum, a Roman fortress in the center of what is now the city of Utrecht, was discovered during an investigation conducted ahead of a construction project in the central Netherlands,

Burials of 28 people Andrew Jackson enslaved found at his Hermitage plantation in Tennessee

Andrew Jackson, the seventh president of the United States, enslaved hundreds of people. Archaeologists have discovered where 28 of them were buried.

‘Frankfurt silver inscription’ archaeologists unearth oldest Christian artifact north of the Alps

An ancient silver amulet unearthed in Frankfurt pushes back Christianity’s history in the region by 50 to 100 years. The silver amulet is now recognized as the oldest physical evidence of Christianity in Northern Europe.

Stone Age insights: Life, death and fire in ancient Ukraine

A research group led by Johannes Müller at the Institute of Prehistoric and Protohistoric Archaeology, at Kiel University, Germany, have shed light on the lives of people who lived over 5,600 years ago near Kosenivka, Ukraine.

New research reveals previously unknown aspects of the construction, use, and ritual significance of a Neolithic rondel found in Poland

An archaeological excavation at Nowe Objezierze in north-western Poland has uncovered a rondel dating to around 4800 BC, offering new insights into the ceremonial and social practices of Neolithic societies.

Museums

New experience produced by Frameless Creative with London museum to launch national and international tour at MediaCity, Salford, in May 2025

Warsaw non-profit opens first museum of queer history in Poland

Poland inaugurated its first museum dedicated to LGBTQ history, a milestone in a country where legal recognition for gay rights remains limited. Located in Warsaw, the museum was founded by Lambda, a Polish nonprofit rights organization that has also worked extensively in recent years with queer refugees arriving into the country.

Museum artefacts cleaned up ahead of reopening

More than 90 museum artefacts are to undergo expert conservation, cleaning, and repair in preparation for a museum reopening.

Repatriation

The artefact had been recovered from a US gallery in 2017, but since then its status was a mystery

Heritage at risk

From his decades of hunting for Egyptian antiquities, Mark Ragan has filled three display cases in his Anne Arundel home with amulets, pottery and doll-size mummy carvings called ushabtis. He likes to tell of finding a supposed “Egyptian corn measurer” for sale, only to realize it was no corn measurer — it was a sacred canopic jar from the 18th Dynasty. He bought it for about $300. That might have been the climactic moment of his collecting. Then an eBay seller caught his eye.

Assad involved in illegal excavations, former head of Aleppo National Museum tells Türkiye Today

Syria, since the outbreak of the civil war in 2011, has faced not only a political crisis but also a profound loss of its thousands of years of cultural heritage. The destruction and losses in Aleppo and other Syrian cities point to a cultural as well as a physical catastrophe.

Thomas Hardy building lost in fire

A building where novelist Thomas Hardy trained as an architect has been left a charred wreck after a fire.

Odds and ends

Nearly 500 years after the collapse of the largest empire in the Americas, a single bridge remains from the Inca's extraordinary road system – and it's rewoven every year from grass.

New book details Rendlesham's royal finds

Research into how a village was once the centre of East Anglian royalty has been shared in a new book.

Venice doubles tourist tax for 2025 despite uncertain impact on limiting crowds

Venice will double its tourist entry fee to €10 in 2025, despite data that suggest the measure failed to reduce visitor numbers during its trial period in 2024.

Concern as Guyana considers opening Jonestown massacre site to tourism

Project would turn former commune where Jim Jones and more than 900 followers died into a tourist attraction

Restore, destroy or leave to rot? Battle lines drawn over west Africa’s architectural heritage

Uncompleted or abandoned buildings are a regular feature of the landscape. Now calls for restorations are increasing

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the gods are making fun of you also there's a bunch of other doodles below...

These hugs were incredibly hard to draw. It's a human and a bunch of geometric shapes. what have i done

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Sleepy crow.

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Twitter user Orikon: "Fun fact: It seems that there was, at some point, an idea of changing Shepard's sprint based on morality. In the game files, there are animations for what's called Storm_Paragon and Storm_Renegade. "Storm" is the sprinting animation when you hold spacebar." [source]

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me to the three people who interact with my posts

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i've seen enough horror movies starring upper-middle-income white families stuck in spacious haunted mansions. gimme stories about millennials stuck in haunted studio apartments. consider the realism:

why is this protagonist staying in an obviously haunted building despite the glaring warning signs? because a week at a motel would send them spiraling into credit card debt, they'll take their chances with the vengeful spirits. why did they chose this apartment complex to begin with, despite the many many unexplained mysterious deaths that show up on the first page of a google search? hon some of us don't have the credit score to move away from high (paranormal) crime areas. how could i be so careless as to sign a soul-binding contract with a demonic entity? bitch they're called LANDLORDS

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did you know: you can break up with anyone, for any reason, at any time.

and if they start giving you reasons why you are not 'allowed' to break up with them, break up with them harder.

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Hey uhhh, meow?

idk what to add so here’s minnesota beef boy