Nursing female figure in boudoir, c. 1550-1069 B.C. ▫️This fascinating figure of a woman is beautifully carved from a piece of limestone and showcases a woman in her feminine nature. She holds one bust, and if you look closely, you can see the remnants of a baby, who she is

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Tomb relief of Merit, wife of Maya, Chancellor and Overseer of the Treasury during the reign of kings Tutankhamun, Ay and Horemheb at the end of the 18th Dynasty. From the Tomb of Maya at Saqqara. Read more: egypt-museum.com/relief-of-meri…

Illustration of the Great Comet of 1577, from the book Tarcuma-I Cifr al-Cami by Mohammed b. Kamaladdin, 16th century AD.

Colors in the night, St Philip street, New Orleans

Prodigious Etruscan woman statue : In the 6th century BC, Etruscan cities and culture reached the peak of their development... Sculptural forms in Etruscan art developed from the generalized, sometimes roughly executed images of early 6th Century BC to the more perfect,

In Appalachian lore, July was when “the haints started pokin’ ‘round early.” The old folks said if you baked gingerbread in July, it summoned spirits looking for lost Yule offerings. They’d leave you a small gift… or take one. #FairyTaleTuesday Art: Muddy Colors

Sky over Lafitte with moon and airplane, New Orleans

Message on a bridge, Rusty Rainbow, Bywater, New Orleans

The word mentor comes from the Greek word, Mentōr in Homer’s The Odyssey. It was the name of the friend of Odysseus and adviser of Telemachus (the goddess Athena in disguise) which makes the first mentor character female. art by Marc Chagall (1975) #BookologyThursday

Wyatt Earp photographed at home in Los Angeles, 1923.

Jaguar paw sculpture, made of human bone with turquoise-inlaid claws; Peru, 700-400 BC.