#the ancient tombs of time

[theancienttombsoftime]

Demo

Here is the demo sorry it took a bit since I got confused with how to start it hope you enjoy. Also I had to remove the choice last minute so it's mostly reading.

[alliebirb]

Yuugang definitely hides behind Yami when they get spooked

[blueiscoool]

A Major Tomb With Gold and Ceramic Artifacts Discovered in Panama

In an archaeological find in the El Caño Archaeological Park, located in the district of Natá, province of Coclé, in Panama, a tomb has been discovered that sheds light on the sophisticated Coclé society of pre-Hispanic times.

The tomb thought to belong to a Coclé lord and dating back to 750 CE, was found to contain a wealth of funerary offerings, including ceramic and gold artifacts.

The El Caño Archaeological Park is well-known for its necropolis of tombs and stone monoliths that date back to 700–1000 CE. American explorer Hyatt Verrill first realized the importance of the site in 1925 when he discovered ancient monoliths beside the Rio Grande River.

Linette Montenegro, National Heritage Director of the Ministry of Culture (MiCultura), explained that this discovery is part of the ongoing archeological project in the park.

The project, started in 2022 and financed through a cooperation agreement between the Ministry of Culture and the El Caño Foundation, aims to thoroughly explore Tomb No. 9 during the 2021-2024 campaigns.

The tomb’s contents, consisting of 5 pectorals, 2 belts of gold beads, 4 bracelets, 2 earrings in the shape of human figures, an earring in the shape of a double crocodile, 1 necklace of circular beads, two bells, bracelets, and a skirt made with dog teeth, and a set of bone flutes, is testimony to the cultural and social wealth of the Coclé society.

Dr. Julia Mayo, director of the El Caño Foundation and leader of the archaeological project since its inception in 2008, highlighted the importance of this discovery.

The collection, which probably belonged to a high-status adult male, represents a window into life and death in the Rio Grande chiefdom. The tomb, built around 750 A.D., is especially intriguing due to the presence of sacrificial attendants buried alongside the lord, indicating multiple and simultaneous burial practices.

Dr. Mayo noted that the excavation process is ongoing, making it difficult to determine the exact number of individuals buried within the tomb. She said that this type of burial, known for burying a variable number of people in the same tomb, provides valuable information about the beliefs and funerary rituals of the Cocle society.

Dr. Mayo explained that the Coclé lord was buried in a face-down position, a customary practice in this culture, often atop the remains of a woman.

El Caño Archaeological Park, built around 700 A.D. and abandoned around 1000 A.D., has yielded significant archaeological discoveries. In addition to the known monoliths, the site includes a cemetery and a ceremonial area with wooden structures. This discovery stands out for its uniqueness and the insight it provides into Cocle society’s funerary practices.

By Oguz Buyukyildirim.

[dykesynthezoid]

I’m having an egg crisis.

Not because they’re expensive as hell, but because I’m taking an archaeology class on Greek painting next quarter and was looking at the Tomb of the Diver (c. 500-475 BCE) to get familiar with an example of well-preserved Greek fresco.

And I need to know why this guy is holding an egg.

If you’re not familiar with the scene, it’s a symposium setting where individual men and male youth-adult male couples are drinking and playing games, with one of the couples embracing. With that setting, my initial assumption about the egg was that it might be some kind of bawdy joke.

I found this article by Dr. Monica Bulger, in which she says:

The man at left here holds a stringed instrument in his right hand and an egg in his left hand. This egg is an unusual element not often found in Greek symposia scenes. However, in some Etruscan grave monuments, individuals hold eggs as symbols of rebirth.

And her footnote on the subject:

One man in the symposion scene painted in the Tomb of the Leopards in the Monterozzi necropolis holds an egg, and the woman or man on the Sarcophagus of the Spouses might have held an egg. E. G. D. Robinson, “Identity in the Tomb of the Diver at Poseidonia,” Communicating Identity in Italic Iron Age Communities, edited by Margarita Gleba and Helle W. Horsnoes (Oxford: Oxbow Books, 2011), p. 64.

So I went to look at the examples she gave. In the Tomb of the Leopards (dated c. 470-50 BCE), there are actually multiple possible examples of egg holding.

I believe both individuals here may be holding eggs. Given the clothing and skin tone difference, they’re presumably meant to be a female-male couple.

It’s harder to see with the man, but the outline is faintly there.

There’s also this couple:

The man is clearly holding… something. It looks less like an egg than the other examples, and more spherical, but could still be an egg. Or maybe a ball or trinket representing an egg? Would holding an actual egg be necessary or could it have been employed symbolically? Did people actually interact with eggs as a symbol of rebirth in ceremony and social settings, or is it only relevant to idealized depictions seen in art?

Anyway, I think the woman may have also been holding an egg with the way her hand near his chest is positioned, but again the plaster has faded.

Let’s look at the Sarcophagus of the Spouses (dated c. 520-510 BCE).

To me this looks distinctly like they could’ve both been originally holding a cup in one hand and an egg in the other; note they both have pinched fingers with their right hands and more open grasps with their left.

Between all three examples my deduction would be that the egg was a symbol of rebirth in late Archaic and early Classical Etruscan art specifically in the context of “heterosexual” (not that they had the same concept) couples. Perhaps related to the fact that female-male couples could create literal life with their union. The Etruscans tended to have a different view of female-male love, and gender in general, than the Greeks did (frankly, presumably because they seemed to have valued women more).

It being a motif specific to heterosexual couples again brings me back around to it possibly being applied as a bawdy joke in the Tomb of the Diver.

It makes sense given that the Tomb of the Diver was built in Magna Graecia (Poseidonia was a Greek colony in Southern Italy) that the creator of the tomb would have been influenced by other nearby cultures. Perhaps the Greek creator had seen the Etruscan egg motif but was not knowledgeable enough about their art to know it was primarily applied to couples; or maybe he knew and just decided to ignore it. Or maybe he was making a joke. Regardless the contrast is intriguing.

[beedreamscape]

When the book comes out I'll be taking Alecto (my old barbies) out of the tomb (big plastic box) where I kept her for the last myriad (since I was 10) because I too refuse to let go (i will never give these away).

[braind3adbeetle]

Erm I got bored so here’s my headcanons for my fav lil guys from pvz2 (spoiler warning, I’m right) HHSSHFHJSJS TRANS ZOMBIE APOCALYPSE RAHHHH :P also I’m so mad I couldn’t find a transparent png for the adhd symbol AUGHH

[melissagt]

So this was a new one for me. Total gigglesnort...

[kaiahkush]

Spirits come to the Hall of Judgement all the time, and they cannot let go of their lies. They deny their faults, their true feelings, their mistakes...right up until Ammit devours their souls for eternity 𓋹

[voerman]

milf necromancer v2.0

patch notes:

changed her from high elf to seldarine drow

gave her some sick clothes

more wrinkles

[skylarkspinner]

Reblogging this again because of the extra commentary from other spinners. Splicing flax is my best guess, but I'm still not sold on that. I feel like we'd see evidence of similar tools in other cultures that also spliced flax. Wonder if I could find someone that would take a commission & be willing to help with some experimental archeology.

terps: Epinetron” (επίνητρον) is a ceramic thigh protector that women in Ancient Greece used while spinning wool on their thighs. Penelope is usually pictured with one so it is associated with an activity you do while waiting. For Ulysses to come back, for the crisis to end. [...] I made this epinetron during the lockdown and sculpting it on my thigh, working on top of it for hours, I felt that I replicated the work of the women before me. The “spinning women” as they were called by male archaeologists, who perceived them as unethical because they were working.

[theancienttombsoftime]

Updates updates and more updates!!!

Hello everyone, great news! I might be able to release a new and updated demo maybe today or next week. It'll be about 5,000 or 10,000 more words added, and there will be so much more features and things to do, that is, if I can wrap up everything into one big bow. I'm very excited to be releasing it soon. 

[daedpoet]

verses.

[queereads-bracket]

Queer Adult SFF Books Bracket: Round 1

Book summaries and submitted endorsements below:

The Locked Tomb series (Gideon the Ninth, Harrow the Ninth, Nona the Ninth, and others) by Tamsyn Muir

Endorsement from submitter #1: "An extremely fun, humorous romp! A heart-breaking, soul crushing catharsis inducing tragedy! A thoughtful piece on imperial structures and trauma. On queerness, Muir flawlessly and without announcement, cracks gender open like an egg and spills its disproven guts across the page. The Locked Tomb does it all also bones, bitch."

Endorsement from submitter #2: "Lesbian necromancers in space. So many fascinating, sort of fucked up sapphic relationships going on."

The Emperor needs necromancers.

The Ninth Necromancer needs a swordswoman.

Gideon has a sword, some dirty magazines, and no more time for undead bullshit.

Brought up by unfriendly, ossifying nuns, ancient retainers, and countless skeletons, Gideon is ready to abandon a life of servitude and an afterlife as a reanimated corpse. She packs up her sword, her shoes, and her dirty magazines, and prepares to launch her daring escape. But her childhood nemesis won't set her free without a service.

Harrowhark Nonagesimus, Reverend Daughter of the Ninth House and bone witch extraordinaire, has been summoned into action. The Emperor has invited the heirs to each of his loyal Houses to a deadly trial of wits and skill. If Harrowhark succeeds she will become an immortal, all-powerful servant of the Resurrection, but no necromancer can ascend without their cavalier.

Without Gideon's sword, Harrow will fail, and the Ninth House will die. Of course, some things are better left dead.

Fantasy, science fiction, horror, mystery, humor, series, adult

The Javelin Program by Derin Edala (Time to Orbit: Unknown series)

When Dr Aspen Greaves signed up for the Javelin Program, humanity's first foray into colonising deep space, they expected to wake up to life in a thriving colony on a distant planet. Instead, they find themself five years away from their destination on a broken spaceship full of complex mysteries, dead astronauts, and a very unhelpful AI.

Aspen wasn't trained for any of this. But if they can't keep themselves alive, get the ship in working order, and find out what went wrong by unravelling a chain of mysteries leading all the way back to distant Earth, then neither Aspen nor the five thousand sleeping passengers in their care will ever see a planet again.

Science fiction, mystery, series, adult

[all-all0s-eyes]

niche humor

I persist in pretending that cultural archives sufficiently deep might still carry the significance of this joke forward in time to the feed of a deep space research vessel who would and could appreciate it. Yet it must do so alone, because no one else it could tell would get it.

Artificial intelligence makes accurate sheep counting.

[corkinavoid]

DPxDC Glass Coffin

Weirder shit has happened in DC universe, but hear me out, Young Justice finds a glass coffin with Danny sleeping inside it. Maybe it's in some ancient tomb and hidden away for centuries, maybe it's in some villain's private collection of artifacts, maybe it's in some museum in plain sight.

And then Kon hears a heartbeat from it.

(I'm going with the version of YJ that is Kon, Tim, Cassie, and Bart here, fyi)

Assuming they didn't come to wherever they found the coffin just for the sake of it, they, as the responsible teenagers they are, finish their business first and take it to Mount Justice later to figure out what the fuck. Meanwhile, Danny is sleeping peacefully like a princess, all up in his King garb, with the Crown of stars, cape of night sky, and whatever else pretty stuff you want him to have. Point is, he looks majestic.

Tim looks up the records for the coffin. The files say it's hundreds of years old, and no one has been able to open it yet. The boy inside is stated to be either a statue or some kind of really well-preserved corpse - no amount of scanning registered any signs of life, so it was treated like a piece of art for the most part.

Yet, Con is absolutely positive he heard a heartbeat inside. What's more, he can still hear it now. It's impossibly slow but still recognizable.

Cassie finds a whole lot of legends about it, most of them speaking of 'only those from the other side can open the casket', and there are no clarifications to what kind of other side they are all talking about.

Of course, they all try. Because this is some kind of Snow White or Sleeping Beauty shit, and besides, none of them even think they would be able to open it anyway. And, sure, as soon as they are done having fun with it, they will report to the JL about their finding. Maybe the magic users will know something about the weird Sleeping Prince. They even go as far as to reason with the casket, loudly proclaiming where they are from, because they all come from very different 'sides'.

Bart goes first, explaining how he is from the future. The casket doesn't budge. Cassie goes next, stating herself as Themyskirian, but to no avail. Kon is next, with his half-Kryptonian heritage, but the glass coffin doesn't accept him as worthy either.

And then it's Tim's turn. And somehow, he flips the glass lid open with no effort at all.

A moment of silence follows, all the YJ members frozen in place, waiting for anything to happen, but the boy inside keeps just laying there, unmoving and with his eyes closed. Then Cassie makes a joke about kissing the princess to wake her up, and all of them start arguing on ethics and stuff because why is Robin the one that has to do the kissing, do you have any idea where that boy has been? Fuck off, you kiss him if you want it, and also, do you really want him to wake up, what if he is some kind of villain or an evil spirit, or-

"Which one of you assholes is dead enough to wake me up from my nap?"

And that's as far as I got with this idea. Maybe Danny was put into some magic sleep, maybe it was Clockwork's time shenanigans, maybe someone locked him inside and he decided to sleep it off, maybe he is there on his own volition, taking a vacation from Kingly duties.

I'm just having this vision of eternally beautiful Danny in a glass (oh, maybe it's not glass, maybe it's ice) coffin, and the YJ arguing over it. There's also Dead Tired potential here, because I love them, yes.