#rich culture and history

[generatedblacklove]

[fertilefemme]

reminder that butch/femme is a working class exclusive community with communist roots. if i see one more post that's like "i want a rich butch/femme" or "i want to be a rich butch/femme" i'm actually going to lose my fucking mind.

this post is on an nsfw blog and is about t4t lesbians. minors, terfs, and men (including trans men) dni.

[keirahknightley]

Remembering the opening ceremony of athens 2004 💙🤍💙🤍

And because i know many of you were babies then (some even not born 😅) here is a link to watch the full ceremony. I promise it's worth it 💖💖

[todayinhiphophistory]

Today in Hip Hop History:

50 Cent released his sophomore album Get Rich Or Die Tryin’ February 6, 2003

[blueiscoool]

1,600-Year-Old Tombs Found in Crimea With Gold and Silver Jewelry From 'Rich Women'

Researchers say the finds are from aristocratic burials between the fourth and sixth centuries.

Archaeologists have unearthed gold and silver jewelry at an early-medieval burial ground near the city of Sevastopol in Crimea.

The new finds indicate that the burial ground — the Almalyk-dere necropolis on the Mangup plateau, about 10 miles (16 kilometers) east of Sevastopol — was for elite members of a society that spread across southwestern Crimea from the late fourth century until the sixth century.

Archaeologists first excavated parts of the Mangup plateau in the 19th century, and it has been systematically investigated since the 20th century. "As usual, this burial ground brought surprises," Valery Naumenko, an archaeologist at V.I. Vernadsky Crimean Federal University, said in a translated statement. "Despite the severe robbery of these complexes, there are things that are of independent scientific interest."

According to the statement, Naumenko and his colleagues are excavating the site along with archaeologists from the Russian Academy of Sciences. (Russia annexed Crimea from Ukraine in 2014, but Ukraine contends that the territory still belongs to them.)

The sixth-century Byzantine historian Procopius of Caesarea wrote that the Mangup region at that time was part of the Christian principality of Gothia, which had been established in southwestern Crimea by Goths who had refused to follow Theodoric the Great during his invasion of Italy in 488.

Related: Elite Bronze Age tombs laden with gold and precious stones are 'among the richest ever found in the Mediterranean'

Elite jewelry

The new finds are from two crypts dating from between the fourth and sixth centuries, and the jewelry seems to have been worn by women, according to the statement. The stash included fibulas (brooches), gold earrings, pieces of belts and shoe buckles, and appliqué jewelry made from gold foil that would have been sewn on the collars of garments.

The researchers said these artifacts were evidence of aristocratic burials at the site.

"Most likely, rich women were buried in both crypts where the items were found," Artur Nabokov, an archaeologist at the Institute of Archaeology of Crimea at the Russian Academy of Sciences, said in the statement, adding that the earrings were probably imported, while the fibulas were made in Crimea.

The earrings are especially ornate and are made from gold with inlays of red semiprecious stones, either garnet or carnelian; while one pair of the fibulas was cast in silver and then covered with gold leaf and inlays of the red stone.

One of the crypts also held a decorated "pyxis" — a container that was made from an animal horn and was used to store cosmetic powders, like blush, the statement said.

The craggy Mangup plateau is dominated by the Mangup Kale fortress, the earliest parts of which date to the sixth century, although it was still in use in the 15th century; and there is archaeological evidence of prehistoric settlements there going back 5,000 years.

The researchers on the latest expedition to the area also explored a Christian "cave monastery" from the 15th century and a Muslim burial ground that was used between the 16th and 19th centuries, after the Ottoman Turks had seized control of the area, according to the statement.

By Tom Metcalfe.

[goldensunset]

no feeling quite like seeing someone make a harmless and valid post and then someone adds on and interprets it in the most vile and stupid manner possible accusing op of being ignorant and wrong and biased etc and that’s the version with a million notes but you’re like guys that is not what they were talking about at all and you know it

[storywestistrash]

i am actually so tired of the way westerners treat eastern europeans

[benjaminallhope-fulltimemind]

This is what they call an abusive relationship, like genuinely if your forced to rely on something you hate and it hurts you that's an abusive relationshi. All it took was for a CEO to be shot for people to recognize and speak up about this horrible abusive relationship we've all been forced into.

[originalhaffigaza]

Djkhaled was stun ned when he saw the picture of the golden room of 50cents house that he sent him.

[generatedblacklove]

Generated Black Love

[userautumn]

i was asleep and then this guy texted me and was like "teach me about samhain" and then next thing you know, i'm vibrating with excitement as i try not to infodump too severely about celtic/pagan history and culture.

how am i supposed to fall back asleep in these conditions

[fearoffun]

why are people being so rude about US miku's and refusing to acknowledge that the US is literally super diverse and rich in culture........ 😭 if cities/provinces/regions in other countries can vary vastly from each other, what makes you think that cities/states in the us can't be the same??????? also you do realize that the word culture can be basically defined as a way of life belonging to a social group right...? everyone just decided to be xenophobic as fuck for no reason lol

[todayinhiphophistory]

Today in Hip Hop History:

Kool G Rap & DJ Polo released their debut album Road to the Riches March 14, 1989

[blueiscoool]

Rich Votive Deposit Discovered in Sicily's Valley of the Temples

At least sixty terracotta figurines, female protomes, and busts, oil lamps, and small vases, a rich votive deposit of bronze fragments were found in the Valley of the Temples in Agrigento, on the southwest coast of Sicily.

The objects were found in House VII b, which forms part of the housing complex north of the temple of Juno. The campaign is fully funded and supported by the Sicilian Region through the Valley of the Temples Archaeological Park, directed by Roberto Sciarratta, and is led by archaeologist Maria Concetta Parello.

In an announcement published by the Sicilian Region Institutional Portal: “The findings allow us to understand the dynamics of the destruction of Agrigentum in 406 BC by the Carthaginians, when the inhabitants had to flee in exodus towards the city of Gela.”

The votive deposit, which would appear to have been arranged above the destruction levels of the house, may tell the story of the time when its objects were recovered by the Akragantines after the destruction. To define with certainty the function of the interesting deposit will require further research, paying close attention to the stratigraphic connections between the deposit and the living and abandonment levels of the house.

The Valley of the Temples forms part of the ancient city of Agrigentum, situated in the province of Agrigento, Sicily. Since 1997, the Valley of the Temples (covering 3212 acres) has been included in the UNESCO World Heritage List.

According to the Greek historian, Thucydides, Agrigentum was founded around 582-580 BC by Greek colonists from Gela in eastern Sicily, with further colonists from Crete and Rhodes. It was routed by the forces of Carthaginian general Himilko in 406 B.C. Agrigento’s residents fled to nearby Gela when Himilko sacked their city, but then he took Gela too. All of the Greek colonies on Sicily fell to Himilko and were made vassals of Carthage. Punic primacy would not last long, however. Timoleon of Corinth defeated Carthage in Sicily and liberated the Greek cities in 399 B.C.

By Leman Altuntaş.