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kateoplis:

Mankind By the Numbers | History Channel

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thewinchesterswagger:

revengeofthesith:

sizzlykins:

This is simply stunning.

amazing.

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discoverynews:

Tomb of Mayan Queen Found

Archaeologists in Guatemala say they have discovered the 7th-century tomb of warrior Queen, Lady K’abel, one of the greatest queens of classic Maya civilization.

The most powerful person in Waka’ during her lifetime, Lady K’abel is known in Maya archaeology because of a beautiful and detailed portrait of her in a stela dated to 692 A.D. The carved stone slab was looted from Waka’ in the 1960s and is now in the Cleveland Art Museum.

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theoddmentemporium:

Chinese puzzle balls are ornate decorative items that consist of several concentric spheres, each of which rotates freely, carved from the same piece of material. Although the master carvers of old used ivory, in modern times you can find puzzle balls made of synthetic ivory, resin, wood, jade, and other materials. These detailed works of art are usually made up of at least 3 to 7 layers, but the world’s largest puzzle ball is actually made of 42 concentric balls all enclosed one within the other.

Chinese masters rotate a solid ball on a lathe and start by drilling holes toward the center of the objects. Then, using special “L”-shaped tools, they begin to separate the innermost balls. The tool with the longest upright has the shortest cutter, and the one with the shortest upright has the longest cutter. The craftsman lowers the longest tool to the narrow bottom of each hole in turn and rotates it to cut the innermost ball free. Then, using the second longest, which doesn’t reach as far down, but cuts a wider arc, he separates the second ball, and so on, from the innermost to the outermost shell. Because it is easier to work with, the exterior shell is the most elaborately carved, usually featuring an intertwined dragon and a phoenix.

They are solved by aligning all the holes.

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non-westernhistoricalfashion:

Sock

Place of origin:Egypt 

Date: 050-220 AD

Materials and Techniques: Wool, single-needle knitted

Gallery note: Before the technique of knitting with two needles evolved, textiles with a very similar structure and texture were created by a technique known as ‘single-needle knitting’. This sock, made in this method, was intended to be worn with sandals, as the big toe is shaped separately from the other toes. It was excavated from Christian burial grounds of the late Roman period, found in the present-day city of al-Bahnasa in Egypt.

This used yarn threaded through the eye of a sewing needle worked in the round through a series of loops. It was much more laborious and slower than knitting with two needles, as the yarn could only be worked in short lengths. Extra pieces of yarn had to be spliced on as the ‘knitting’ progressed.

neat

fuckyeahdisneysongs:

Poor Unfortunate Souls (Hebrew) - The Little Mermaid

neat. Anyone know who took this? 

f-l-e-u-r-d-e-l-y-s:

Ficus carica (plants) is a breathtaking display of the antenna of green fill the glass dome of what was once a chapel. The tradition is that the dome was built around the tree.

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The Moon, Mercury, and the Pleiades star cluster

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territorealities:

Time Chart of Ancient Cartography, by E. Raisz, General Cartography

Time charts of Cartography

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