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March 21 - April 9, 2025
Many experts think that the artists believed that they captured the animal’s soul when they painted it. This could be the reason why the images are so lifelike. If the artists captured the animal’s true likeness, they thought that they would be sure to capture the real thing during the hunt.
Modern humans arrived in Europe from Africa some 41.500 years ago, and not until 42.000 years ago, the only humans in Europe were the Neanderthals, who had been wandering around Europe for 200.000 or 300.000 years.
Being one of the most famous items of prehistoric sculpture, the Venus of Willendorf dates to between 28.000-30.000 BC, making it one of the oldest and most famous surviving works of art. It was found in 1908 at a paleolithic site near Willendorf, a village in Lower Austria near the town of Krems.
Today, Göbekli Tepe is the only area outside the Urals where there is evidence of monumental anthropomorphic sculptures and animal representations of the Early Holocene history. The finds from the Shigir peat bog point to the existence of a contemporary, impressive, and elaborate art tradition along with Göbekli Tepe.
Göbekli Tepe was built before the agricultural revolution and pottery; it was a place that belonged to the world of hunters and gatherers. The discovery deeply shook and changed everything we learned about the history of humanity, religions, and our transition to settled life together with our perception and knowledge of history.
In the early Neolithic cultures of Anatolia and the Near East, it is assumed that the deceased were deliberately exposed to open air in order that vultures and other predators can extract their meat.
The code consists of rules and punishments that were imposed if those rules were broken.
I’m sorry but am I a snob to say this while sentence was unnecessary? It was clearly stated before in the previous paragraph. A good chunk of these entries are redundant.
The structure of the code is very detailed: each offense receiving a particular punishment.
Again! I didn’t even know this was possible.
It is even said that Akrotiri was Plato's inspiration for the city of Atlantis. It is perhaps this level of complexity that has led scholars and historians to believe that Akrotiri was Plato's inspiration for the city of Atlantis.
Gods help me.
In about 1.400 BC, an alphabet using only thirty symbols was devised. Evidence of this alphabet was found in Ugarit in Syria. As far as we know, this was the first alphabet to be used. Alphabets were later adopted for the writing in Hebrew, Phoenician, and Greek. The Roman alphabet developed from these scripts.
People believed that a curse caught the discoveries when Lord died
What even
The end came for the Oracle of Delphi at the end of the 4th century AD. The Roman emperor elevated Christianity to the state religion and banned all other cults.
Not Galba but Constantine.
Today only the lower parts of the Ishtar Gate are still at the site of the ancient Babylonian city, today known as Babylon.
Bruh.
The sculpture was buried intentionally
How do archaeologists determind if something was intentionally buried?
Apollo,
Why do people tend to fucking forget Diana?
Baghdad batteries, the exact number of which is unknown, were stolen from the Baghdad Archaeological Museum during the 2003 US invasion of Iraq along with many other important artifacts and are still missing.
They could have also been destroyed. Miniminuteman on YouTube did a fantastic series of videos on this.
the First Emperor of China called Qin Shi Huangdi,
This is already established. It breaks the flow of reading that it feels as if I've been taken to the start of the entry again. Jarring and unnecessary.
Archaeologists have found not one but thousands of clay soldiers,
Again, this was just stated. I feel like a jerk for being so pedantic but it is a problem for me.
