The new, Grand Egyptian Museum in Cairo - a wonderful museum, brilliantly designed and absolutely jam-packed with Egyptian history
#archaeology #cairo #tutankhamun #GEM
The horses (and Mules) are still there too…👌🏻
They do …I have first hand experience 😉
…and no doubt no electric golf buggys to grab a ride!
It really does!
Petra - the ancient Nabataean city in Southern Jordan. A UNESCO World Heritage Site and one of the New 7 Wonders of the World #petra #archaeology
The worst accident that could happen to potters is for the temp to rise in the kiln to ‘melting’ what they had crafted for days.
Nabataean potters used agricultural waste - esp olive pressings - to fire their kilns; wind would have caused such unexpected rise in temperature.
3rd century CE.
Bronze statue of Artemis, swept by a flood, in a side wadi near Petra's city centre.
The only known large cast-bronze statue from Petra; melting metal objects during this era was common practice. She was probably portrayed holding down an animal with her knee.
Petra/ Roman period (2nd century CE)
Have a word with the Athens Archaeological Museum - it’s a marvel of ancient engineering, far from mere “slop”, demonstrating complex mechanical understanding - I’m sure they’ll put you straight, or maybe just laugh 😉
Antikythera mechanism @ Athens Archaeological museum #antikythera #archaeology
This 1st - 3rd CE lagynos jug caught my eye in the Archaeological museum in Tirana, Albania
King Idrimi of Alalakh…the oldest autobiography in the world and the first cuneiform written mention of “Canaan”. #Idrimi #canaan #habiru #hebrew #BritishMuseum
Nice summary 👌🏻
Indeed…The Greeks always portrayed them as small, neat and tidy, power was with the brain and a ‘sculptured’ body…large was associated with animals and barbarians
Zeus or Poseidon…was it a thunderbolt or a trident in his hand originally, which would have provided the much needed insight…I go for Zeus personally. 460 BCE. @Archeological Museum Athens
Found in the 'House of the Poseidoniastai of Beryttos' (Beirut), Delos. Aphrodite attempts to fend off the goat-footed god Pan who makes erotic advances to her. She holds her sandal threateningly in her right hand, while the winged god Eros comes to her aid.
About 100 BCE.
Ha! Nothing he hasn’t done to himself recently…
DISCOBOLUS
Roman, 2nd century CE. It would’ve been copied from a Greek statue from c.500 BCE. Romans loved the Greek works.
This statue was discovered in 1791 in the Villa of the Roman Emperor Hadrian
(AD 117-138) at Tivoli outside Rome. @BritishMuseum
enjoy…https://www.academia.edu/127423175/Who_were_Hebrews_before_they_were_Hebrews_In_WHEN_BIBLE_MEETS_HISTORY
Re-read what I’ve said…
Ive no idea what you’re getting at…some scholars believe the habiru were early hebrews…end.
No. Hebrew had nowhere near emerged as a distinct language back then.
The Habiru were a diverse, loosely defined social group rather than a single ethnic…
The phonetic resemblance between Idrimi and Ivrim is sometimes noted, but there is no linguistic or etymological basis to directly connect the two.
King Idrimi’s cuneiform inscription tells his dramatic rise from exile. Forced to flee with his mum’s family, he sought refuge in Canaan. There, he lived among the Habiru, who some scholars believe were early Hebrews. 7 years later, Idrimi reclaimed his land as king of Alalakh. 1570 - 1500 BCE.
Gold Indo-Pacific nautilus associated with the Avars, nomads who migrated west from the northeast Asian Steppe.
In the late 700s, Charlemagne waged war against them. Treasures like this bankrolled Charlemagne's imperial ambitions, including gold ink used in some luxury Carolingian manuscripts. 750CE
@mrjamesob.bsky.social martyn lewis the money mensch
Hallelujah! …actually Lewis was very good…but 10am on a weekday morning requires Jimmy O’B as you’re referred to round ours
4 x dwarf god Bes, guardian of mothers and infants. Brandishing sword while seizing a snake. A ferocious protector of the family, relied on to ward off evil.
Featured at shrines concerned with childbirth and sexuality, and his powers served humans as well as the gods. 1st century BCE #BritishMuseum
Jewish community of Fustat (Cairo's earlier twin city) placed all old texts in a geniza, in the synagogue.
Not to dispose of anything with the name of God in, they kept over 400,000 texts…Bibles, private letters, bills, slave receipts etc …over 400,000 texts from spain to India. From c.900 CE. #BM
