A join Iraqi-French archaeological mission have uncovered a Lamassu at the Dur-Sharrukin archaeological site, Khorsabad, in Nineveh, Iraq.

Cornfield by Moonlight, with the Evening Star (cropped)

Samuel Palmer, c.1830

#WyrdWednesday

‘The Tomb of Böcklin’, by Ferdinand Keller (1901-02)

Painted as a tribute to Swiss painter, Arnold Böcklin
#ofdarkandmacabre

'Never regret thy fall, O Icarus of the fearless flight, For the greatest tragedy of them all, Is never to feel the burning light.'
Attributed to Oscar Wilde

The Lament for Icarus, by Herbert Draper (1898) #MythologyMonday

A very moody looking Christ Church in Spitalfields, London (built in 1729)

Anubis was a canine headed god of Ancient Egypt, associated with funerary rites, mummification, and cemeteries.

This wooden likeness was possibly used as a mask by the priests of Anubis (Late period: 664 - 332 BCE)

📸 My own via The Egyptian Museum المتحف المصري #WyrdWednesday

A mural from the Tomb of Menna (c1419-1372 BC) at Luxor's West Bank depicting the weighing of the deceased's heart against the Feather of Truth

Osiris can be seen presiding over the judgement (R), while Thoth records the result
📸 My own #TombTuesday arce.org/project/tomb-m…

Skull of an aurochs (c245,000 - 186,000BC), an extinct species of ox considered the ancestor of modern cattle

Depicted in cave paintings such as those at Lascaux, as well as Ancient Egyptian reliefs & Bronze Age figurines
#FindsFriday #FossilFriday
📸my own Via Museum of London

Franklin Carmichael, one of the Canadian Group of Seven. Mirror Lake 1929

In Norse myth, Odin and the other gods bind the wolf Fenrir on an island in the middle of the great lake Amsvartnir (‘Pitch black’), where he will remain until Ragnarök, the Twilight of the Gods #MythologyMonday

🎨Arthur Rackham, 1910
worldhistory.org/Fenrir/

Leonor Fini. The Guardian of the Phoenixes, 1955. Oil on canvas. #artinspo

Meet 'Scarface' - a 4000 year old djinn from the Bactrian civilisation of ancient Iran, nicknamed for the knife cut across its cheek

From late 3rd millenium or early 2nd millenium BC. #FindsFriday 📸 my own via Musée du Louvre

Depicting scenes of Bacchic revelry, the Mildenhall Great Dish was found in Mildenhall, Suffolk & dates to C4th AD

In this detail you can see Oceanus in the centre with his seaweed beard, & to the left, a v tired & emotional Hercules
#FindsFriday 📸my own worldhistory.org/image/4973/the…

'In certain islands dwells a huge bird, called the roc, which feeds its young on elephants'

From the 7 Voyages of Sinbad the Sailor, a separate story added to the Nights by Antoine Galland
#FairyTaleTuesday
🎨Virginia Frances Sterrett
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