archaeology

aboutegypt:

IMG_4356_B (by from_the_sky)

fuckyeahvikingsandcelts:

Tollund Man by summoning_ifrit on Flickr.

Via Flickr:
Tollund Man
“The Tollund Man is the naturally mummified corpse of a man who lived during the 4th century BCE, during the time period characterised in Scandinavia as the Pre-Roman Iron Age. He was found in 1950 buried in a peat bog on the Jutland Peninsula in Denmark, which preserved his body. Such a find is known as a bog body. Tollund Man, and in particular the head and face, was so well-preserved that at the time of discovery he was mistaken for a recently deceased murder victim” - enWikipedia

leilanifox:

So breathtaking! What an amazing shot!!

“Ficus and east entry tower (Gopura) at dawn in Angkor, Cambodia”

yourmaj3sty:

                                 The Statue of Zeus at Olympia.

It was made by the Greek sculptor Phidias, circa 432 BC on the site where it was erected in the Temple of Zeus, Olympia, Greece. It was one of the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World. The seated statue, some 12 meters (43 feet) tall, occupied half of the width of the aisle of the temple built to house it. “It seems that if Zeus were to stand up,” the geographer Strabo noted early in the 1st century BC, “he would unroof the temple”. The Zeus was a chryselephantine sculpture, made of ivory and gold-plated bronze. 

The circumstances of its eventual destruction are a source of debate: the 11th-century Byzantine historian Georgios Kedrenos recorded the tradition that it was carried off to Constantinople, where it was destroyed in the great fire of the Lauseion, in AD 475. Others argue that it perished with the temple when it burned in 425.

triglifos-y-metopas:

Pantheon

Rome, Italy.

126 A.D.

triglifos-y-metopas:

Plychrome sarcophagus of Letitia Saeianti

Chiusi, Italy.

3rd century B.C.

[Museo Archeologico Nazionale di Firenze]

ohmygawditschristmas:

Square Tower House by davidnc82 on Flickr.

(Source: thebridgeonfire)

(via goriffic)

triglifos-y-metopas:

Tomb of the Reliefs

Necropoli della Banditaccia

Cerveteri, Italy

7th century B.C.