#Ales of Antiquity

[phoenix-joy]

Excerpt:

Beer archaeologists are peering back millennia to recreate brews from ancient Egypt, Greece and Rome using ancient methods and ingredients.

Some of the most interesting beers made in recent years provide a drinkable window into human history. These so-called "rebrews" of age-old ales were once savoured in places ranging from Ancient Egypt and Greece to Celtic and Viking Europe. Their drinkers liked a choice too, with 5,000-year-old Babylonian-carved stone tablets depicting recipes for nearly 20 different barley-based beers.

"Recreating ancient beers allows us to touch and taste history. It humanises our ancestors and makes us realise that we are not so different," says Travis Rupp, who combines teaching Classics and Anthropology at the University of Colorado with his past professional brewing experience at the Boulder-based producer Avery Brewing. It's a combination of skills that led him to create a line of archaic rebrews earning him the tag of The Beer Archaeologist, which is now the name of his business. /endquote

[atalienart]

Does Al also make you paranoid?

Look at this picture. Is it art or is it an Al generated image? Look at this text. Is this useful piece of information or Al gibberish? Look at this video? Is this real or fake?

I stare at drawings, analysing every line, I go through people's social media to see if they're artists or thieves. I look for references and take a close look at every image because I don't want to reference distorted reality. I show someone a video of snow falling somewhere and instead of "look how beautiful" I go "do you think this exists?" and I read something and then give up recognising dry like a summer desert language of a robot. I hate it here.

Today's no different. I see a picture that looks kinda nice but I immediately notice there's something wrong with it. I go to the source and there's more. Every day the person adds a new fully finished piece. Under every piece people (because they can sense something's off) ask the owner of the account what medium he uses. The answer is: "I've been using the computer to create my art since 1980, and then I print it with a vintage ink on my epson printer". The fuck? Sounds like the printer does more work that he does on the computer. They guy's old, I give him the benefit of the doubt, his bio says he's a curator of art in some institute. One of the commenters says he posts regularly and his "style" didn't change much. I go through his feed. In fact his "style" changes a lot. But oh, most of the images he posts belong to other people who have their own exhibitions and no online presence, and it's all Al shit, clear as day. I scroll down and it turns out the guy used to be into abstract art, there's tons of it before Al started to ruin everything. In another life I'd scroll past that pretentious fuck without losing 12 minutes of my life. I hate it here. I see another artist and they seem legit but even when I see their art with all the human imperfections I can't shake the feeling they reference Al images. I see their process video but I cannot tell if they're just new to digital art and they use traditional methods or it's a bit shady. Am I paranoid or their video is just recorded that way, because I've already seen the erasing liars and pretending idiots.

It's exhausting. Constant vigilance! I don't want to waste my time on something people didn't bother to spend their time creating. They don't care about their thing, why should I?

[vintagehomecollection]

A conservatory can be a room where one can literally sit in the garden, separated only by glass from the natural world outside. Here the furnishings are deliberately simple and pale, to keep attention focused on the view. The grey-green colour of the framework of this garden room is carried through in the colour of the chairs and wooden cupboard which furnish it.

Traditional Country Style, 1991

[palestiniansilk]

What Is Home? Falasteen on 08 March ´24

For years, I believed that home was simply where family dwelled—a truth, yet incomplete. I never imagined that home could transform until I first glimpsed Palestine. There, I felt the echoes of longing from those who were torn away from this land. A veil of sorrow draped over me, mingled with an unexpected warmth, as if the earth itself whispered, “Welcome.” I found myself home… Was I a voice for those who could never return? Or was it my soul that ached for this place, yearning for a home it had never known?

[weirdpngs]

[holmesoldfellow]

1912 copy of "Adventures of Sherlock Holmes" by A. Conan Doyle (published by A. L. Burt Company)

[yellowocaballero]

hello! i really liked your fics, especially the dc-xmen ones, and they made me interested in reading the comics. do you have any recs for starters? thank you :D

So a long-running gag between my sibling and I is that they aren't allowed to send me any panels or information about the X-Men, because I don't like the X-Men comics. Have I legitimately read a bunch? Sure. Would I recommend any of them? No.

I'd say X-Force (starring private eye Jamie) wasn't bad, except the 10yo girl got aged up into an 18yo and started making out with the lead. Cable & Deadpool probably barely counts as X-Men but it's definitely the best Cable and the best Deadpool comic simultaneously. My X-Men fics are based almost entirely off the children's cartoon X-Men Evolution, which is the only X-Men media I can say with my whole chest that I really enjoy. I heard that X-Men Blue was good.

As for where to start with DC comics...I'm struggling with a personal opinion on that too. I can't give a single comic that's the best Batman comic to start with, because the popularity of the Batman arc has an inverse relationship to its quality. The best Batman comic is some random one-off by Denny O'Neil in the 70s that was never mentioned again. I'm not sure how often this rec is given but Batman: Black and White is one of the few one-off Batman things that is sincerely gorgeous and moving (unlike The Dark Knight Returns or Arkham Asylum A Serious House on Serious Earth or The Killing Joke or Batman: Year One or The Long Halloween or Under The Red Hood or). If you've rolled up here for the Batfam exclusively then Cassandra's 90s Batgirl run is unironically pretty good.

If you enjoy reading teenagers being awful the late 90s-early 00s Young Justice comic by Peter David is delightful - if you enjoyed Impulse in it, then check out my favorite comic run of all time Impulse (not best, just favorite). The 90s Mark Waid Flash run was lovely. Outside of the heroes I've actually written, if you're pretentious as fuck the the 80s Denny O'Neil Question is fantastic. If you're not pretentious and want something much lighter then the early 00s Blue Bettle and 70s Shazam comics are unbelievably fun.

That probably doesn't help much! I love Batman so much but I couldn't believe that I couldn't actually list of any famous Batman arcs or stories that I genuinely love. Life of a Batman fan. I'm so sorry I can't actually recommend an X-Men comic. I'm sure there are good ones I just haven't read any.

[stephaniedola]

ugh i feel so bad/awkward my night sweats are back and im meant to stay over justins tonight and his room is really warm

i feel like im gonna have to like warn him i might need to leave the room in the middle of the night and pass out on the couch because i am Going to leave a pool of sweat in his bed and feel uncomfortable and gross

[philoursmars]

Au Louvre-Lens, il y avait une expo fort intéressante : “Champollion - La Voie des Hiéroglyphes”, sur l’homme, son époque, l’image de l’Egypte en Europe avant l’Egyptologie....

- les 2 premières : scala (= lexique) copte-arabe - Egypte, Qous, monastère de Deir-al-Küla, 1389

- les 2 suivantes : le “Caillou Michaux", kudurru (stèle) babylonien - moulage de 1100 av. J-C.

- Jean-François Champollion - travaux sur l'écriture démotique I - 1822

- papyrus démotique "Casari" - Louxor, 146 av. J-C.

[labellenouvelle]

Patio Dinning chairs

A set of four wrought iron dinning garden / patio chairs. These are heavy duty , made locally here in Nola , 1950s . Will last for another 100 ears.  Nice design, freshly painted.

Item No. E5623-1

Dimensions: 41″ high. Seat is 18″ x 16″ deep . Floor to seat 17″ ( plus your added cushions )

SOLD

504.581.33733 / t

info@labellenouvelle.com / e

[aliceontheotherside]

I'll take the tea set, thank you

No, no I won't be paying for it, I'll just smuggle them out in my comically large trench coat

(Yes, I stole the trench coat too)

*me, owning a strange boutique housegoods/book store selling a variety of mystic, occult objects but no one realizes I live there, this is literally my living room*

[allthathistory]

Lost Site of the Battle of al-Qadisiyyah Found Using Spy Satellites

Islam was a religion which owed its rapid success to conquest. From 622 AD and led by Muhammed himself, Muslim armies swept across the Middle East and unified Arabia into a single entity.

The greatest adversary they faced in their sweep eastward was mighty Persia. This ancient and venerable culture of fire worshippers had dominated the region for more than a millennium, ruled for the last four centuries by the house of Sasan. 

This Sasanian Empire was the second longest lived in Persia’s long history, but they too would fall to the Islamic armies, their culture subsumed and their religion, known as Zoroastrianism, crushed. One of the most decisive battles over the Sasanians occurred in 636 AD and is known as the Battle of al-Qadisiyyah.

Urim and Thummim: How God Told the Hebrews What to Do

Sulla: The Man Who Showed Caesar the Way

Muhammed did not live to see the battle. Instead it was the Rashidun Caliphate, the first Islamic caliphate founded in his name, which carried out his vision and conquered the Persians on that day. We know of the battle from the various Arabic accounts of this crucial early Islamic victory.

But we have never been able to find the battlefield, until now. Using declassified spy satellite images, a team from the University of Durham have pinpointed the long-lost site of the Battle of al-Qadisiyyah, as published in Antiquity.

The team, led by Durham University archaeologist Dr William Deadman, had not initially set out to search for the battlefield. They were using 1970s US satellite imagery to identify key points along the Darb Zubaydah pilgrimage route, one of seven such routes in Arabia and dating back 1,000 years to the Abbasid Caliphate, the third Islamic caliphate.

Reviewing the satellite imagery the team realized that ancient sites and features were clearly visible from above. They were able to identify the remains of a distinctive 9.5km long double wall. At one end was a large military outpost with three layers of defenses on the edge of the desert, and at the other a Mesopotamian town.

Full Story: https://allthathistory.com/archaeology-discoveries/battle-of-al-qadisiyyah/1908/

[danieleneandermancini]

STRUTTURA MILITARE DIFENSIVA RINVENUTA A TELL AL-ABQAIN, DELTA OCCIDENTALE DEL NILO

[thepastisalreadywritten]

[professionalowl]

so. um. the good news is we found your boyfriend. the bad news is that, well, we sort of…dug him up…in the middle of a car park. in leicester (buckley et al. 2013). leicester, yeah. sorry. they demolished the friary he was hastily interred in when henry viii dissolved all the monasteries. you know how it is. and as it turns out, well, shakespeare was…sort of right about him. scoliosis, yeah, sorry (appleby et al. 2014). if it makes you feel any better we analysed his bones and it turns out he had a pretty high-protein diet before he died (lamb et al. 2014). and he drank so much wine that it changed their chemical composition, which we didn't know could actually happen before we analysed him (lamb et al. 2014), so he was having a good time, at least. 

BIBLIOGRAPHY

Appleby, J., Mitchell, P.D., Robinson, C., Brough, A., Rutty, G., and Morgan, B. (2014). The scoliosis of Richard III, last Plantagenet King of England: diagnosis and clinical significance. Lancet 383, 1944. 

Buckley, R., Morris, M., Appleby, J., King, T., O’Sullivan, D., and Foxhall, L. (2013). ‘The king in the car park’: new light on the death and burial of Richard III in the Grey Friars church, Leicester, in 1485. Antiquity 87, pp. 519-538. 

Lamb, A.L., Evans, J.E., Buckley, R., and Appleby, J. (2014). Multi-isotope analysis demonstrates significant lifestyle changes in King Richard III. Journal of Archaeological Science 50, pp. 559-565.

[egoschwank]

al things considered — when i post my masterpiece #1284

first posted in facebook march 5, 2024

rufino tamayo -- "tres personajes" (1970)

"do not set out to make mexican art, or american, chinese, or russian art. think in terms of universality" … rufino tamayo

"'tres personajes' was bought by a houston man as a gift for his wife in 1977, then stolen from their storage locker in 1987 during a move. in 2003, elizabeth gibson found the painting in the trash on a new york city curb. although she knew little about modern art, gibson felt the painting 'had a strange power' and took it without knowing its origin or market value. she spent four years trying to learn about the work, eventually learning from the PBS website that it had been featured on an episode of 'antiques roadshow'. after seeing the 'missing masterpieces' segment about 'tres personajes', gibson contacted the former owner, who arranged to sell the painting at a sotheby's auction. in november 2007 gibson received a $15,000 reward plus a portion of the $1,049,000 auction sale price" … wikipedia

"do not throw out mexican art, or american, chinese or russian art … think in terms of fiscal responsibility" … al janik