#ancient italy

[sequencer987]

Yes! The Romans were monotremes.

FUN FACT: This is still true of modern Italians; the last extant population descended from the Romans. The Italians are perplexingly the only member of the human race that aren’t placental mammals.

This also makes Homo Sapiens Sapiens the only species in the animal kingdom to belong to two different orders. Geneticists are still not sure why exactly this is.

I mean, I don't want to sound stupid, but I always assumed that the Ancient Romans were mammals

[skf-fineart]

Memento Mori mosaic from Pompei, circa 1st century AD

[uncleclaudius]

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."

[maxxi-the-procrastinator]

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.

[ancientstuff]

The work of reading those scrolls from Herculaneum and Pompeii goes on with some fantastic results.

[shewhoworshipscarlin]

Stemmed plate, 625BC-600BC, Italy.

[artthatgivesmefeelings]

Thomas Couture (French, 1815 - 1879) Romans of decadence, Details, 1847

[curiouscatalog]

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

[hehehehehheheheydye]

Here's some historical reproduction of the paleoveneti made by locals in my city for some events

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[integratedheart]

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 |

[ancientprettythings]

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.

[weeby-monster-the-bastard]

Nisus/Niso and Euryalos are my roman empire <3

[universalambients]

Sicily, 1819

[uncleclaudius]

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.

[majormisunderstanding]

Detail of Addaura Cave Art, Monte Pellegrino, Italy. Dated to approximately 11,000 BC.

[ancientstuff]

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.