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Ex astris, scientia

@astraris / astraris.tumblr.com

This blog is a mess. I love archaeology, fantasy, space and long walks through the museum giftshop.
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boeing-787

big fan of those edited plane gifs/videos where they start flapping their wings. or the one edited to be the fly aggressively headbutting a door cam. like ohh yes thats a critter right there.

Airbus A340

i found another one btw. i couldn't get the video to embed properly so you don't get the delightful audio with it unless you go and look for it

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no-passaran

Funerary stele of Paramythion and Pheidiades, Athens (Greece), ca. 380/70 BC.

From left to right: 1) how it has been conserved nowadays, 2) the stele as seen in UV fluorescence, and 3) an experimental color reconstruction of how it would have looked like in antiquity.

Source: Gods in Colour: Polychromy in Antiquity online exhibit by Liebieghaus - Skulpturen Sammlung museum in Frankfurt (Germany).

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Recently I went to one of my favorite museums of all times, the Muskegon Art Museum, and discovered this new bronze by UK artist, Beth Carter, Minotaur Reading. When people think of the myth of the Minotaur it’s almost always in context of his violence, his lust, his impossible body. Here all that is swept away with this monstrous form reading a small golden book. This made me crazy happy to see.

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ancientcharm

Another frescoes recently found in Pompeii, extraordinarily preserved on the wall of a triclinium (dining room).

Photos: Pompeii-Parco Archeologico

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