Meryrahashetef, c. 2345-2181 B.C. ▫️In the late 19th century, Sir Flinders Petrie uncovered a remarkable assemblage within the tomb of Meryrahashetef at Sidmant el-Gebel, Faiyum. Among the finds was the mummified head of a man, resting upon a calcite headrest. Though much of the

A grave stele of a young girl, the so-called Giustiniani Stele. It shows her spreading incense from a small box. Ca. 500 BC. Altes Museum, Berlin. Ὃν οἱ θεοὶ φιλοῦσιν ἀποθνήσκει νέος. Whom the gods love dies young. Menander

Unbright-insight Making claims about what Egyptians could or could not have done with the tools we know they had and used without troubling to try an experiments yourself, let alone doing any research

Terracotta relief of a roaring lion dating back to the old Babylonian period from Nippur, Iraq.

Yes, many thousands of years older

“Inca measured sun without tools” *Shows a tool

1/ The Kassite cylinder seals were found in the palatial treasury room of Kadmeia (Thebes) and are part of a heterogeneous assemblage of exceptional lapis lazuli seals, the majority of which were imported from the Near East. But how were these specific seals found in Kadmeia?

Archaeologists will tell you these Gobekli Tepe T pillars are FAKE. That’s because they are reproductions in the Museum of Anatolian Civilization.

This is what THEY (I don’t know how many invisible parentheses this was intended to have) actually want you to believe. That Gobekli Tepe was built by sophisticated people working together with knowledge of simple machines.

Mesopotamia is more known as a beer culture than a wine culture, but wine was still important and enjoyed, even if it was an expensive luxury. The region of Southern Mesopotamia was not suitable for grape production, meaning it was imported and more costly than beer,

I wouldn’t be insulting anybody else’s fashion sense, Jimmy.

Limestone Orthostat from Gaziantep, 900-700 BC, depicted is a wheeled cage with a man inside propelled by horses, a lion attacks the man in the cage When I visited the Museum of Anatolian Civilizations, this one struck me as the strangest of the stone reliefs. What is going on?

Assyrian basalt stele with the standard of the moon god Sin

Remarkable how a ship deposited in a sealed limestone chamber by the Pyramid in ideal conditions could survive intact while working vessels made of valuable cedar for a one off project do not seem to be found in the archaeological record

This exceptionally well-preserved woollen Roman sun hat worn by a soldier stationed in Egypt nearly 2,000 years ago, is one of only three known to exist worldwide. The design resembles the Greek petasos hat, worn by farmers and travelers Ca. 200 AD, now in The Bolton Museum

Some 3,300 years ago, an ancient Egyptian artist painted this humorous illustration of a cat herding geese, on a flake of limestone. From Deir el-Medina, Thebes, Egypt. 📷 Egyptian Museum, Cairo. #Archaeology

Portion of a Fresco from the Urartian fortress at Altıntepe dated to 8th to 7th centuries BC The fortified settlement hosted a large temple or palace complex at its center.

Hittite temple model depicting a naked seated goddess from the site of Inandik (1700-1500 BC)

They aren’t gonna find it