Post by Maggie on Feb 14, 2014 12:56:49 GMT -6
dozens of my words! I joined Pinterest a while back to satisfy an acquaintance who was sure I was being left behind in every field of man's endeavors. I was pretty blase about it until I discovered how much one could learn about the ancient world there. So I thought I might try to add a few of my favorite pictures for your ocular pleasure... (Please remember to click on the pictures to resize them decently.
From Smithsonian Magazine: The glass chalice, known as the Lycurgus Cup because it bears a scene involving King Lycurgus of Thrace, appears jade green when lit from the front but blood-red when lit from behind—a property that puzzled scientists for decades after the museum acquired the cup in the 1950s. The mystery wasn’t solved until 1990, when researchers in England scrutinized broken fragments under a microscope and discovered that the Roman artisans were nanotechnology pioneers: They’d impregnated the glass with particles of silver and gold, ground down until they were as small as 50 nanometers in diameter, less than one-thousandth the size of a grain of table salt. The exact mixture of the precious metals suggests the Romans knew what they were doing—“an amazing feat,” says one of the researchers, archaeologist Ian Freestone of University College London.
Perfect for Valentine's Day--beautiful jewelry for the one you love. A pair of gold and agate Greek earings from the the 1st century B.C
Can you guess what this is? It is a charred loaf of bread.
Well all of us have overcooked food before. But this loaf (which still has the baker's stamp on it) may have been charred by the eruption of Vesuvius. The loaf was found at Pompeii.
Here are horse sculptures from the Great Altar of Pergamom dating from the 2nd century B.C. These are in the Pergamon museum in Berlin, a museum I visited when it was still located in East Berlin. That was (and presumably still is) one of the most amazing museums ever. I remember enormous rooms illustrating a period or a place completely outfitted with authentic walls, stairs, and rooms. It is worth a trip to Berlin alone to see it! Of course, Berlin has much more to offer, as well.
This handsome beast is the Bull's head of the gold lyre of Ur found in the royal cemetery of Ur. This has some age on it. It comes from the early dynastic period 2600 B.C.- 2400 BC in Mesopotamia (Iraq)
I have collected a ton more. I may do a thread on each of my interest areas just because I have discovered so much of interest and have learned so much, especially about history, than I ever knew.
From Smithsonian Magazine: The glass chalice, known as the Lycurgus Cup because it bears a scene involving King Lycurgus of Thrace, appears jade green when lit from the front but blood-red when lit from behind—a property that puzzled scientists for decades after the museum acquired the cup in the 1950s. The mystery wasn’t solved until 1990, when researchers in England scrutinized broken fragments under a microscope and discovered that the Roman artisans were nanotechnology pioneers: They’d impregnated the glass with particles of silver and gold, ground down until they were as small as 50 nanometers in diameter, less than one-thousandth the size of a grain of table salt. The exact mixture of the precious metals suggests the Romans knew what they were doing—“an amazing feat,” says one of the researchers, archaeologist Ian Freestone of University College London.
Perfect for Valentine's Day--beautiful jewelry for the one you love. A pair of gold and agate Greek earings from the the 1st century B.C
Can you guess what this is? It is a charred loaf of bread.
Well all of us have overcooked food before. But this loaf (which still has the baker's stamp on it) may have been charred by the eruption of Vesuvius. The loaf was found at Pompeii.
Here are horse sculptures from the Great Altar of Pergamom dating from the 2nd century B.C. These are in the Pergamon museum in Berlin, a museum I visited when it was still located in East Berlin. That was (and presumably still is) one of the most amazing museums ever. I remember enormous rooms illustrating a period or a place completely outfitted with authentic walls, stairs, and rooms. It is worth a trip to Berlin alone to see it! Of course, Berlin has much more to offer, as well.
This handsome beast is the Bull's head of the gold lyre of Ur found in the royal cemetery of Ur. This has some age on it. It comes from the early dynastic period 2600 B.C.- 2400 BC in Mesopotamia (Iraq)
I have collected a ton more. I may do a thread on each of my interest areas just because I have discovered so much of interest and have learned so much, especially about history, than I ever knew.