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22 May 2023 19:10

Painting murals in an abandoned villa in Tuscany, Italy

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20 Apr 2023 16:50

The marker on the side of the road outside Adolf Hitler's home in Obersalzberg in the Bavarian Alps near Berchtesgaden, Bavaria, Germany.

This home was referred to as "The Berghof".

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18 Apr 2023 09:33

Wawel Cathedral, Kraków, Poland

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17 Apr 2023 11:13

Roman "Swiss Army Knife", 201 CE - 300 CE. Made of Silver and Iron

This folding eating gadget has a three-pronged fork, a spoon,a spatula,a pick, a spike and an iron knife that has eroded away. There is a hinge to allow each item to be folded out when it was needed, or folded away for ease of transporting it. The spike might of helped in extracting the meat from snails, and the spatula in scraping sauce out of narrow-necked bottles. Some have even suggested the pick with the tiny spoon on the end could have been used to remove earwax.

While many less elaborate bronze folding knives have been discovered from antiquity, this one's complex design and the fact it is made from silver suggests it is a luxury item.

Perhaps a useful gadget for a wealthy traveller or soldier to show off, but not really intended for heavy use, as silver is a soft and pliable metal.

📸 The Fitzwilliam Museum, in Cambridge

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17 Apr 2023 08:16

Statue of Cuchulainn and Ferdia, Ardee, Ireland.

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15 Apr 2023 11:48

Mimir's Well

The well of wisdom was under the second root of the tree Yggdrasil in Jotunheim guarded by the god of wisdom, Mimir.

Odin went to Mimir's well, but wisdom can only be gained through pain, so Mimir demanded one of Odin's eyes in return. Allfather offered the painful sacrifice and was allowed to drink.

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12 Apr 2023 19:46

Marshal of Finland Carl Gustaf Emil Mannerheim having a cigar in a train during his visit in Germany, 1942.

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08 Apr 2023 13:21

The siege with "fastigiata testudo" formation, allowed to reach high positions forming a ramp with the shields.

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07 Apr 2023 23:06

Carved heads from the prow of a Vikings vessels, from the Oseberg ship burial, 9th-10th century Norway.

📸 The Museum of Cultural History in Oslo

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07 Apr 2023 18:07

The Iron Crown of Lombardy

Is both a reliquary and one of the oldest royal insignias of Christendom, made in the 4th or 5th century AD. The crown was one of the symbols of the Kingdom of the Lombards and later used for the coronation of the Holy Roman Emperors until Napoleon.

It's kept in the Cathedral of Monza, outside Milan.

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07 Apr 2023 13:24

Balilla (boys) and Piccole Italiane (girls) of the youth italian organization "Opera Nazionale Balilla" (ONB), 1926-1938.

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04 Apr 2023 14:32

"Three suits of armor and two helmets". Adolph Menzel. 1866.

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02 Apr 2023 18:14

Vessel shaped like a Polish Eagle from tableware of King John II Casimir.

Made by Heinrich Mannlich in Augsburg c. 1666. Now in Wawel Royal Castle, Kraków.

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28 Mar 2023 14:24

Artemis Brauronia. Marble relief
350 B.C.

A family of worshippers has just reached the sanctuary to sacrifice a goat to Artemis. The goddess with her favorite deer, is seated on a rock wearing a long chiton and sandals. A servant is bearing a box on her head.

Traditional Europe

25 Mar 2023 17:34

"The apple tree, as far as I know, does not despise the vine, nor the palm the cedar. Everyone clings to the strongest, but does not confuse their roots. And thus it saves its form and its essence since it is a question of an invaluable capital which must not be bastardised."

— Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

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12 May 2023 08:22

Illustrations from The Fairy Book by Warwick Goble (1913)

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19 Apr 2023 15:13

"Hymn to the Rose" — John Duncan (Scottish), 1907.

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17 Apr 2023 22:26

"The first step in liquidating a people is to erase its memory. Destroy its books, its culture, its history. Then have somebody write new books, manufacture a new culture, invent a new history. Before long that nation will begin to forget what it is and what it was... The struggle of man against power is the struggle of memory against forgetting."

— Milan Kundera

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17 Apr 2023 11:05

"A girl in a traditional costume with a casket", Gerhardt Wilhem Von Reutern.

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17 Apr 2023 03:00

A rock crystal ball pendant in gold, from a 7th-century double burial at Picquigny, France.

📸 Ashmolean Museum, Oxford

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14 Apr 2023 10:10

What was stolen by the city, nature restores.

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11 Apr 2023 16:31

"The Vix torch", is a 2500-year-old 24 carat Celtic torc, whose ends are adorned with winged horses on intricate filigree pedestals and lion paws, inspired by Etruscan, Scythian or Middle Eastern bestiary. Found in the grave of the Lady of Vix,

📸 Châtillonnais Museum, France

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08 Apr 2023 11:47

Mazanka traditional houses in Ukraine

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07 Apr 2023 21:44

"Den saliga / The Blessed One", Gottfrid Samuel Nikolaus Kallstenius.

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07 Apr 2023 18:06

Happy Holy Week to our southern comrades.

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06 Apr 2023 16:21

Austrian National Library (Österreichische Nationalbibliothek), State Hall

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03 Apr 2023 20:20

The Roman Tower of Centum Cellas, Belmonte, Portugal.

Located in the municipality of Colmeal da Torre in Portugal, is one of the most enigmatic monuments from the Roman period to be found in the country. These majestic ruins were part of a large Roman villa from the first century AD, situated on the road that linked Augusta Emerita (Mérida) to Bracara Augusta (Braga).

This rectangular building, made of pink granite blocks, appears to have had three levels with openings of various dimensions. It was thought that it was once a temple, a prison with a hundred cells (hence the name), or possibly a praetorium (the headquarters of a Roman camp), and a building part of Roman villa.

The tower appears to be the best-preserved part of what was the villa of Lucius Caecilius (according to a dedicatory altar found on the site), a wealthy Roman citizen and tin trader who built his villa here at the beginning of the first century AD, under the supervision of a qualified architect who knew Vitruvius‘ building techniques.

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02 Apr 2023 14:22

“Ritual at the lake” - Igor Savchenko

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27 Mar 2023 09:59

Reinheimen National Park, Norway

The Reinheimen National Park is in the next largest area lacking major infrastructure in southern Norway, and wilderness best characterises this very varied mountain area. The highest mountains in the park tower more than 2000 m above sea level, while the lowest point in the protected area, at the foot of Trollveggen, is about 130 m a. s.l.

Much of the original alpine ecosystem, including wild reindeer, wolverines, golden eagles, gyr falcons and ptarmigans, is still intact. Reinheimen has numerous cultural heritage traces from the former hunting of wild reindeer, including pitfalls, mass trapping systems, bowman’s hides and habitations where the hunters lived.

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24 Mar 2023 08:50

"Blind Man’s Bluff (Blíndekuh)". Adolph Menzel