Pallisades View

View of the Pallisades from the Medieval Cloisters at the New York Metropolitan Museum, where over 200 million years ago the supercontinent Pangea ripped apart.

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The Apocalypses by Apostle Peter and Peter Booth

Ancient History, Long 19th- 20th centuries / October 17, 2024 / art, Christian history, literature, religion

You are looking at a detail of contemporary artist Peter Booth’s painting, “Apocolyptic Landscape” (1983) — the shapes are jagged and random; the red, black,…

Ancient Indian Board Game Chaturanga

Ancient History / December 6, 2024 / Eurasia/Middle Eastern history, folklore/mythology, military history, religion, social history

Here are the Indian deity Krishna and his beloved gopi (milkmaid) and constant companion Radha, playing the ancient Indian board game known as chaturanga. In…

Ancient Roman Infant Burials

Ancient History / September 19, 2024 / archaeology, Rome

TW: deceased infants; infant burialThere is so much that archaeology cannot tell us about the dead. We have piles of bones from the Late Roman…

Roman Britain Shoes

Ancient History / September 19, 2023 / fashion history, Rome

These are shoes from Roman Britain. Not a lot of support in the soles, eh? (Even considering the decay over centuries.)

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