Around 4000 years ago, a dog left its pawprints in this Sumerian brick :

Sumerian Clay Brick with a Dog's paw prints (2112-2000 BC), from ziggurat at Ur; Mesopotamia (modern-day Iraq).

According to scholars, around 2100 BC, a dog walked across this brick as it lay drying in teh sun when it was being made. Brick is stamped with an cuneiform inscription which tells that "Ur-Nammu, king of Ur, has built his temple for Nanna, his Lord. Also built city wall of Ur for him."

British Museum

Lord Howe Island

Five years after a massive effort to remove invasive mice and rats from Lord Howe Island, the unique ecosystem is experiencing what is being called "an ecological renaissance" as the endangered flora and fauna recovers.

Lord Howe Island woodhens were reduced to only 30 individuals in the 70s due to egg predation from the invasive rodents, but in just the last five years the population has jumped from 200 to over 2,000.

abc.net.au/news/2024-11-23/lor…

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#conservation

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Royal Lion Hunt of Ashurbanipal (r. 669-631 BC), shown on a famous group of Assyrian palace reliefs from North Palace of Nineveh that are now displayed in room 10a of British Museum. They are widely regarded as "supreme masterpieces of Assyrian Art".

📷 : Assyrian Wall Relief, showing a lion pierced with four arrows while blood is gushing from its mouth.

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The Buffalo Dance or Bison Dance, an annual dance festival of many North American Plains Natives, including Mandan, Sioux, Cheyenne, Pawnee, and Omaha, among others. The festival traditionally coincided with the return of the buffalo herds and included a feast and a dance with a number of men wearing buffalo and other animal skins.

🎥 : Oldest Native American Buffalo Dance Footage Ever Recorded (1894)

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Iron Rider Armour and Horse equipment (chain mail, helmet with mask, bit, stirrups, girth buckle), dated 12th or 13th Century CE.

It was discovered in a military burial (mound 264) in Lypovets, in what is now Ukraine. It belonged to a Kievan Rus' or a Cuman (kuman) or Kipchak soldier.

State Hermitage Museum; St Petersburg, Russia.

📷 © Netelo

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So, here's the thing: Each adaptation of Pride and Prejudice I've seen has strengths and weaknesses. What I look for in an Austen adaptation is whether I am learning from her work. Does the adaptation have her voice? Is it entertaining? What do you think?

#AmReading #AmWriting @bookstodon #books #Bookstodon
#WritingCommunity #ReadingCommunity #Regency #Georgian #JaneAusten @romancelandia

This is the only surviving monastic fishery building in England ✨🐟

Meare Fish House was the residence of the official who was in charge of Glastonbury Abbey's fishery. It also provided facilities for fish-salting and drying.🎣

📌 Somerset

@EnglishHeritage #fish #fishing #England #monastries

Moonstone enamel brooch: The winged maiden by Rene Lalique.

Art Nouveau style. Now on display at the Gulbenkian Museum in Lisbon, Portugal.

@archaeologyart #artNouveau #jewellery #Lalique #museums

Scientists Revive 1,000-Year-Old Seed, Potentially Resurrecting Mysterious Biblical #Tree.

An ancient Judean seed has grown into a unique tree that may hold healing properties mentioned in the #Bible.
Researchers have successfully germinated a seed that lay dormant for over a millennium in the dry caves of the Judean Desert. Now, after 14 years of careful cultivation, that seed has grown into a unique tree that might just answer a Biblical riddle.

zmescience.com/science/news-sc… #health

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I’ve read quite a few of these (“Eligible,” “Being Mary Bennet,” “Pride and Prejudice and Zombies,” and “Shades of Milk and Honey”), but others are definitely on my TBR list!

buzzfeed.com/briannamcfadden/p…

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#WritingCommunity #ReadingCommunity #Regency #Georgian #JaneAusten @romancelandia

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Pakistan’s Truck Art - A Beautiful Expression of Culture :

Colorfully decorated trucks with artistic impressions tend to adorn roads and highways in Pakistan. For decades, these jingle trucks have acted as canvases for Pakistani artists and granted them a way to introduce the world to Pakistan’s culture, folklore, poetry and art.

History of Pakistan’s truck art goes back to 1920, when Bedford trucks invaded streets of Pakistan.

🎥© Sarahhuniverse (X)

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