During Anglo-Saxon times in England, a modest, circular earthwork known as a moot hill or moot mound was the designated site where the leading figures of the hundred convened to make decisions.
Over time, some of these locations had permanent structures built upon them, becoming known as moot halls.
The Moot Hall, Steeple Bumpstead, Essex This 16th century building originally housed the school, which was founded in 1592.
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Solnitsata, located near modern Provadia in Bulgaria, is oldest known salt production center in continental Europe, dating back to 5500‑4200 BC.
Salt, a vital commodity for preserving food and trade, was produced by boiling water from a local spring to create bricks. The settlement's economy thrived on salt trade, and its large defensive walls protected this valuable resource.
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The stele of music shows the foundation rites - performed to the sound of the lyre - of the temple built by Prince Gudea (2100 BC) at his capital of Telloh (ancient Girsu), for Ningirsu, god of the state of Lagash in the Land of Sumer.
The stele thus accords with the tradition of Neo-Sumerian art, which unlike that of the preceding period that focused on the warlike exploits of the rulers of Akkad, tends to show the king engaged in pious activities.
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Silver lyre (2600 BC), from Royal Cemetery of Ur, now in southern Iraq 🇮🇶
Music was an important aspect of many celebratory and ritual occasions in ancient Mesopotamia. Lyre is made of lavishly decorated silver and red limestone. The frame, tuners and strings are modern reproductions made from casts of long-decayed wooden parts. Decorated panels below bull's head depict fallow deer and a tree on a hill, lions attacking a goat, and a lion attacking a gazelle.
British Museum
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The wall and ceilings are completely covered intricately detailed mosaics, inside the 11th Century AD, Orthodox Church of Panagia Phorbiotissa in Cyprus.
Church of Panagia Phorbiotissa, better known as Panagia of Asinou, is one of ten Byzantine churches, dating from 12th-17th Centuries AD in Cyprus' Troodos Mountains. In 1985 it was inscribed on the UNESCO World Heritage List, which includes nine other painted Byzantine churches of the Troodos range.
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Badge displaying an enormous phallus, reverse shows a woman pushing a wheelbarrow loaded with phalli, 1375-1450 CE, found in Vlaardingen in The Netherlands 🇳🇱
The phallic image is partly associated with the cult of worship of the phallus itself - a symbol of strength and fertility for people of the past.
Private Collection
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Join Museum experts for presentations about works of art that feature #calligraphy throughout The Met collection.
Explore how artists across different times and cultures have explored calligraphy’s capacity for visual, emotional, and social impact beyond linguistic barriers.
Learn more: met.org/3DfCc7r
The Metropolitan Museum of Art
@metmuseum #museums #MetMuseum #ChineseArt
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Carn Brea #Castle, located on Carn Brea in #Cornwall, UK, is a historic 14th-century building that was originally constructed as a chapel in 1379. The chapel was thought to be dedicated to St. Michael and measured 60 by 10 feet (18.3 by 3.0 meters). This early structure laid the foundation for what would later become a significant landmark in the area.
ArchaeoHistories @histories_arch
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⭐Happy second Sunday of Advent! Mistletoe (Viscum album), a hemiparasitic plant, is often hung above doorways to kiss beneath during the holidays. We'd like to share this beautiful illustration from Köhler's Medizinal-Pflanzen (1887). 🌿Find out more: kew.org/plants/mistletoe.
Kew Gardens Library and Archives
@Kew_LAA
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If you have a website, it's a really good idea to put a link to it in your profile! Many people click on website links in profiles to find out more about the account.
When you're adding your website's link to your profile, remember to include https:// at the beginning so that the link will be clickable.
If you want to get really fancy, you can verify your website link which makes it turn green on your profile, and proves you're the owner of the site:
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It should be possible on any platform that lets you add custom HTML.
Alternatively, if the platform allows you to add links to your social media accounts, if they add rel="me" to their link format that will make it work too.
By the way, this green thing is based on what was supposed to be a global standard for verifying links to other accounts, unfortunately Facebook, Twitter etc refused to play ball for some reason. But maybe Newgrounds might listen?
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Thank you so much! 🙏 Very generous of you, thanks! This makes a big difference, the sites and accounts can keep going because of you and people like you.
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