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Viking 9th Century Lilleberge Whalebone Plaque, Norway, The British Museum, London
#viking#vikings#whalebone#carving#plaque#tray#decoration#ancient crafts#ancient living#ancient cultures#zrelic#grave goods#burial#british museum
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Lithograph of Lady Mary Dundas (née Nisbet-Hamilton) playing harp (1832) by George Hayter (1832). British Museum.
#george hayter#lithograph#british museum#lithography#female portrait#women in art#1832#1830s#1830s fashion#1830s dress#historical fashion#19th century fashion#19th century#fashion history#historical clothing#history of art#art history#artwork#19th century art#europe#harp#music in art#georgian era#georgian art#united kingdom#great britain#british aristocracy#gentry#british nobility#porträt
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we get it, it’s beans ON toast and ants would eat that, also we get it, ants aren’t that loyal to their queen, they kill her off if she’s out of line
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There's definitely some story mileage in a British dude with no cultural sensitivity whatsoever still wanting to return every artifact that Britain has ever stolen out of pure self-interest because one of those motherfuckers is Maximally Cursed and he can't tell which
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i'm back on my bullshit hope it's okay
#tumblr news update#russia#putin#joe biden#kesha#helluva boss#elon musk#mark zuckerberg#british museum#yellowstone river#marvel#secret invasion#reddit#twitter#stock market#titanic#titan submersible#oceangate
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Meant to link this sooner but life briefly got away from me -- tl;dr it was discovered last month that over 1500 ancient artefacts were stolen from the British Museum by a senior museum curator. Who has been selling them on eBay for years. (Allegedly. And possibly the museum knew about it much earlier and covered it up, given he was dismissed earlier this year; the theft was actually uncovered by someone who linked the curator's twitter and ebay accounts.)
Lots of talk these past two weeks about how this does not give the museum much of a leg to stand on the next time it tries to assert it's a better caretaker of Greek antiquities than, well, Greece. The marbles being returned in our lifetime is a stronger possibility than ever.
Been a bad year for the museum, aside from the blessing of my presence there in April...
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Bronze hand used in the worship of Sabazios. Hands decorated with religious symbols were designed to stand in sanctuaries or, like this one, were attached to poles for processional use.
Date: Roman 1st–2nd century AD. Collection: British Museum.
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cnetizens post souvenir they got at various chinese museums
these are all fridge stickers
#china#art#crafts#museums#souvenir#also#British Museum#just return artifacts from other cultures to their countries#I don't know how many times it's been said#I remember that they did not know how to preserve a very precious Chinese painting (looted and traded by illegal means during the war)#but actually cut the painting into four pieces#as a result of which the paper of the painting began to deteriorate#and they had to go to China to ask for help#and China sent an expert in cultural relics preservation to restore the painting#and they still refused to give back these works of art at this point#smh
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Fun fact: Neil: We had talked, Terry and I, a lot about the angels. The angels actually showed up in a first draft of the Good Omens film script we did. For some reason, the studio couldn’t come to terms with the idea of Aziraphale owning a bookshop, so he had to work in the British Museum. So there was a scene where he was pursued through the British Museum by angels flicking on their halos then throwing them like killer Frisbees. (x)
#good omens#gos2#season 2#aziraphale#halo#aziraphale's halo#michael sheen#neil gaiman#terry pratchett#btb#bts#fun fact#good omens movie#photos#hq photos#screenshots#aziraphale's bookshop#aziraphale's bookshop upstairs#british museum
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The ancient of days, 1794, British Museum, London - by William Blake (1757 - 1827), English
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Iron Age Curvilinear Design Torcs and Fragments, The British Museum, London
#ice age#stone age#bronze age#iron age#prehistoric#prehistory#neolithic#mesolithic#paleolithic#archaeology#ancient living#ancient cultures#ancient crafts#gold#jewellery#electrim#celtic#torc#ancient design#metalworking#hoard#British Museum
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Brooch (the so-called "Hanney brooch") of Anglo-Saxon (Kentish) manufacture, decorated with garnets set in bosses of a white material, perhaps shell. Made in the 7th century, the brooch was found in the grave of a woman between 20 and 25 years of age and would have been worn on her left shoulder. From Oxfordshire, England, UK; now in the British Museum. Photo credit: Ian R. Cartwright/The Portable Antiquities Scheme/The Trustees of the British Museum.
#art#art history#Dark Ages#Anglo-Saxon#Anglo-Saxon art#Anglo-Saxon England#artifacts#artefacts#jewelry#jewellery#brooch#7th century art#British Museum
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Renaissance era ship jewlery: pendants and a set of earrings (from the British Museum's digital collection and "Renaissance Jewelry in the Alsdorf Collection," The Art Institute of Chicago, 2000, accessed via the Internet Archive)
#renaissance#nautical#maritime#ship#ships#piratecore#ren#renaissance era#jewelry#jewellry#jewelry history#antique jewelry#applied arts#europe#greek#british museum#art institute of chicago#history#fashion history#fashion#style#cool#sculpture#art#enamel#boats#ocean#beachlife#pirate#17th century
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Late Roman stone mosaic from the Greek city of Halicarnassus, Caria (modern Bodrum, Turkey), dated 4th century AD, now in the British Museum. A coloured laurel wreath encloses a Greek inscription with the following words:
ΥΓΙΑ "Health" ΖΟΗ "Life" ΧΑΡΑ "Joy" ΕΙΡΗΝΗ "Peace" ΕΥΘΥΜΙΑ "Happiness" ΕΛΠΙϹ "Hope"
🏛️: © The Trustees of the British Museum
#classics#classical antiquity#ancient greece#classical archaeology#halicarnassus#caria#british museum#ancient greek
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The call is coming from inside the house...
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