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Memento Mori mosaic from Pompei, circa 1st century AD
#momento mori#pompeii#pompei#artwork#art#fine art#mosaic#ancient rome#ancient art#antiquities#antiquity#skeleton art#skull#ancient history#halloween#ancient italy#art on tumblr#art of the day#archeology#skeleton
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Bronze Etruscan mirror. Mirrors such as this were given to women as wedding gifts. The engraving shows a young woman and a man playing a board game. The inscription next to the woman says: "I think I am going to win."
#etruscans#ancient artefacts#ancient civilisations#ancient italy#etruscan civilisation#ancient culture#ancient art
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The Grand Tour
Interactive fiction novel.
Demo: First chapter to be released soon.
You play as the main character, Avery Sinclair, a young historian who has been invited to travel across the continent to join their younger brother; John Sinclair, on his coming of age grand tour. Avery jumps on the opportunity to excavate and uncover the hidden history behind the bronze age collapse. Thrusting their journey into a pleasing combination of business and pleasure.
On the tour the Sinclair siblings are accompanied and chaperoned by the bear-leader; Thomas Clark, his fiancee; Willow Button and Avery’s best friend; Landon Harrow. On their travels, Avery runs into a couple familiar faces from their college days, reigniting rivalries that they believed were left to the past.
Will Avery be able to uncover the hidden history lost to time, or will they become distracted as unexpected romance blossoms during their tour? Can Avery juggle this tantalising mix of business and pleasure? Or will hearts be broken across the continent in their wake?
Romantic tropes of each route; Landon Harrow ~ Friends to Lovers. Thomas Clark ~ Friends to strangers to lovers. Willow Button ~ Forbidden romance. Pierre Moreau ~ Rivals to lovers. Love triangle ~ Landon and Pierre.
#interactive fiction#interactive novel#wip#choicescript#dashingdon#archaeology#ancient egypt#ancient history#ancient greece#ancient italy
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The work of reading those scrolls from Herculaneum and Pompeii goes on with some fantastic results.
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Stemmed plate, 625BC-600BC, Italy.
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Thomas Couture (French, 1815 - 1879) Romans of decadence, Details, 1847
#art#french art#european art#mediterranean#thomas couture#fine arts#fine art#classical art#romans of decadence#european#classical#best quality online#europe#roman#greek#greece#rome#ancient italy#cradle of civilization
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Gold earrings in the form of dolphins, 2nd to 3rd Century B.C.
Found in Taranto, Italy - one of the Western Greek colonies.
Collection of British Museum / via: Archeaologyart
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Ancient animals doing animal things.
From: Les antiquités d'Herculanum : avec leurs explications en Franc̦ois. P. Sylvain M. Paris, Chez David, 1780.
DG70.H5 M2 1780
#antiquities#herculaneum#ancient italy#vesuvius#1780#archaeology#French publications#illustration#book illustration#rare books#specialcollections#libraryofva#lion#chicken#bull#cricket#bird
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Here's some historical reproduction of the paleoveneti made by locals in my city for some events
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Haruspex (pl. Haruspices)
Haruspices were Etruscan diviners who used the entrails of sacrificial animals to determine the will of the Gods. Very often they would examine the liver and gallbladder of a sheep. This life size bronze model is subdivided into sections and inscribed with the names of individual Etruscan deities. Last edit: 10/24/24 10:53am MT | Source 1 | Source 2 | Source 3 |
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Rome and the area around Pompeii from The Peutinger Map - an itenerarium (road map) drawn circa 1200.
Though late, it preserves a picture of the landscape from Late Antiquity.
Bibliography for further information.
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Nisus/Niso and Euryalos are my roman empire <3
#nisus and euryalus#the aeneid#trojan war#the trojan war#trojan horse#greek myths#ancient greek#ancient rome#ancient italy#roman mythology#greek mythology
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Very fine Etruscan fibula made from gold dated to the 7th century BC. It is decorated with geometric and floral motifs, and of course, ducks.
#etruscans#etruscan civilization#etruria#golden artefact#ancient italy#etruscan art#fibula#gold fibula#once again etruscan prove how awesome they were#ancient civilisations
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Sicily, 1819
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Nice they didn't make it to the black market, but crappy that they're almost useless as scientific objects without provenance and proper excavation.
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Detail of Addaura Cave Art, Monte Pellegrino, Italy. Dated to approximately 11,000 BC.
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