Traditional Europe

08 Jun 2023 16:04

Ancient Greek Sarcophagus Of Aged Lap Dog With Stone-Inlaid Jeweled Collar Sitting On Bedding.

The Animal Must Have Had Its Small Head Turned In The Direction Of The Ancient Road, Looking At The Passers-By With Its Expressive Glance.

Traditional Europe

03 Jun 2023 16:25

"It is not death that a man should fear, but he should fear never beginning to live."

— Marcus Aurelius

Traditional Europe

02 Jun 2023 10:54

"Orpheus Leading Eurydice from the Underworld" — Jean-Baptiste-Camille Corot (French)

Traditional Europe

30 May 2023 10:49

St Mary, East Somerton

Traditional Europe

28 May 2023 17:30

Negau helmet, 474 B.C.

Bronze Etruscan helmet of the Negau type with an inscribed text in the Syracusan Greek alphabet; domed body made of hammered sheet bronze, lower part concave, with a small lip around the bottom edge; the inscription translates 'Hieron, son of Deinomenes, and the Syracusans, [dedicated] to Zeus Etruscan [spoils] from Cumae'

The object is believed to have been captured at the battle of Cumae in 474 BC and deposited in the Sanctuary of Zeus at Olympia as a dedication to the god.


📸 The British Museum

Traditional Europe

23 May 2023 14:35

Crown of Sancho IV the Brave, king of Castile and Leon. Early 13th c.

The crown consists of eight rectangular metalwork plates or links joined by hinges and bordered by a simple molding. Each segment is surmounted by a castle.

It is completed with four sapphires and four cameos, two Roman and two Staufen.

📸 Displayed at Toledo Cathedral, Spain

Traditional Europe

12 May 2023 08:22

Illustrations from The Fairy Book by Warwick Goble (1913)

Traditional Europe

19 Apr 2023 15:13

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

Traditional Europe

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

Traditional Europe

17 Apr 2023 11:05

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

Traditional Europe

17 Apr 2023 03:00

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

📸 Ashmolean Museum, Oxford

Traditional Europe

14 Apr 2023 10:10

What was stolen by the city, nature restores.

Traditional Europe

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

Traditional Europe

08 Apr 2023 11:47

Mazanka traditional houses in Ukraine

Traditional Europe

07 Apr 2023 21:44

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

Traditional Europe

05 Jun 2023 08:15

Roman terracotta bust of the moon-goddess Selene, crowned with the crescent moon.

📸 Allard Pierson Museum, Amsterdam

Traditional Europe

02 Jun 2023 11:57

Musée Jacquemart-André, Paris, France

Traditional Europe

02 Jun 2023 10:53

Hitler and Mussolini at the Galleria Borghese in Rome, May 7, 1938.

Traditional Europe

29 May 2023 11:03

“To exist is to defy all that threatens you. To be a rebel is not to accumulate a library of subversive books or to dream of fantastic conspiracies or of taking to the hills. It is to make yourself your own law. To find in yourself what counts. To make sure that you’re never “cured” of your youth. To prefer to put everyone up against the wall rather than to remain supine. To pillage whatever can be converted to your law, without concern for appearance.”


― Dominique Venner, Un samouraï d'Occident: Le Bréviaire des insoumis

Traditional Europe

25 May 2023 00:51

Athena and the hero Diomedes, Berlin

Traditional Europe

22 May 2023 19:10

Painting murals in an abandoned villa in Tuscany, Italy

Traditional Europe

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".

Traditional Europe

18 Apr 2023 09:33

Wawel Cathedral, Kraków, Poland

Traditional Europe

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

Traditional Europe

17 Apr 2023 08:16

Statue of Cuchulainn and Ferdia, Ardee, Ireland.

Traditional Europe

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.

Traditional Europe

12 Apr 2023 19:46

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

Traditional Europe

08 Apr 2023 13:21

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

Traditional Europe

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

Traditional Europe

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.