💁🏻‍♀️ TIL: 🎨🩸 Red figures on the Huashan #cliffs have survived two millennia of subtropical #weather.

New analysis found ancient Luoyue artists mixed human and animal blood into a #lime and #bone mortar, triggering #crystal growth that bonded the pigment to the #rock. The #blood’s origin remains unverified.

👉 zmescience.com/science/ancient…

#art #archaeology #chemistry #china #huashan #conservation #materials #science #hematite #proteomics #ancient #painting #history #experiment

Did you know that there's an #Italian woman that may embellish #history a tiny bit to preserve an #ancient #art?

Chiara Vigo is a #craft woman who works with byssus - the beard hairs of a #mediterranean clam.
The resulting fiber is spun into a thin but warm golden #fabric.

The clam used is Pinna nobilis & unfortunately, its harvest is now illegal. Vigo claims to be the last person able to work with the fillament, & that she swore a "xuramento da auga" (water oath) to do so without profit.

Vigo says she harvest Pinna nobilis without harming the clam - a claim disputed by the curator of the Muschelseide ("clam silk", in Eng. ususally sea silk) Museum in Basel, Switzerland.

Curator Maeder has found at least 2 more women in #Sardinia who work with donated sea silk.

#history #secret

💁🏻‍♀️ TIL: 🥚✏️ Engraved #ostrich eggshells dating to over 60,000 years ago, from sites including #Diepkloof and #Apollo11, were systematically analyzed.

Over 80% of 112 fragments showed consistent spatial rules, with repeated right angles and parallel lines. The researchers argue this rule-based organization points to planned abstract thought and early symbolic systems.

👉 sciencedaily.com/releases/2026…

#archaeology #ancient #art #paleolithic #southafrica #namibia #geometry #anthropology #humans #evolution #science #history

#ancient : belonging to the distant past

- French: ancien

- German: altertümlich

- Italian: antico

- Portuguese: antigo

- Spanish: antiguo

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Fill in missing or incorrect translations @ wordofthehour.org/r/translatio…

This excerpt from The Odyssey, sung in Homeric Greek, is even better!

It must have been so good! Bring back bardic story singing!

youtu.be/z1zKtQAgbdI

#Odyssey #TheOdyssey #Greece #Hellas #Music #Literature #Art #Classics #Ancient #History #Poetry

The Odyssey by Nolan insufficiently accurate for you?

Here’s a dude singing it in Homeric

What the Internet is for!!!

m.youtube.com/watch?v=cpp7Y0rC…

#Odyssey #TheOdyssey #Greece #Hellas #Music #Literature #Art #Classics #Ancient #History #Poetry

💁🏻‍♀️ TIL: 🦊🔢 Archaeologists have identified #Saktahnwaax, a #Maya mathematician-astronomer from around 800 CE, as the first named scientist of the pre-Columbian Americas.

Found in a painted chamber at #Xultun, #Guatemala, his name appears alongside advanced formulas, including a 2,920 day cycle that integrates #solar and #Venus years.

👉 zurl.co/71Jy0

#archaeology #astronomy #math #ancient #science #precolumbian #mesoamerica #indigenous #history #art

I was going to facetiously post a few paragraphs of Lorem Ipsum #today but then went down the rabbit hole of learning its #history. Oh boy.

It's quite fascinating that it's not just #typography #placeholder #text. It actually comes from an #ancient #Latin #text dating back to 45 BC by the #Roman #statesman and #philosopher #Cicero. The title of the text was "De finibus bonorum et malorum" and it was about #ethics and #pleasure. It was mistranslated years later and used as #dummy text since around the 1500s.

britannica.com/topic/Lorem-ips…

#til #loremipsum #post

A 18th century print depicting the Beast of Gévaudan.

"La bête du Gévaudan".

Engraving taken from the dummy collection of pieces relating to the beast of Gévaudan, created by Gervais-François Magné de Marolles.

Original files:
upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia…

#Illustration #engraving #drawing #draw #print #vintage #ancient #art #culture #history #story #legend #beast #monster #hauntology #18thcentury #gévaudan #wikipedia