met-egyptian-art:

Model Spear Case, Egyptian Art

Gift of Edward S. Harkness, 1917 Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Medium: Wood, stucco, paint

http://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/546271

historyarchaeologyartefacts:

A rare intact Majapahit piggy bank. The Majapahit where among the first to use the design for coin containers as boars symbolized good fortune and wealth. Indonesia, probably Java. 15th century. [600x592] [OS]

barbariansatthegates:

Scythian Felt Swan, 3rd c BCE [Source]

comstocktexas:

tilthat:

TIL 350 million years ago, when the newly evolved trees were just 1 foot in height, the landscape was dominated by giant 20 foot tall mushrooms

via ift.tt

God I just closed my eyes and pictured this and my heart jumped.

latining:

anatomicdeadspace:

Dutch resistance members celebrate at the moment they heard of Adolf Hitler’s death over the radio, May 1945. (Colorized)

Blessed image.

unrar:

Italy, Alberobello, 1963. Countryside covered with Trulli houses, they are modelled after the houses built by the Moors when they occupied this area, Burt Glinn.

fuldagap:

Anti US invasion rally in Managua, Republic of Nicaragua, 1983.

dredsina:

99x:

Brian Eno - Ambient 1: Music For Airports

missfolly:

Musical notation by Ludwig van Beethoven (I)

artist-klee:

Untitled (Still life), Paul Klee

https://www.wikiart.org/en/paul-klee/untitled-still-life-1940

talesfromweirdland:

A fairy riding a snail—Victorian artist, Amelia Jane Murray (1800-1896).

yama-bato:

1665 - Robert Hooke, Micrographia: or Some Physiological Descriptions of Minute Bodies Made By Magnifying Glasses Printed in London by John Martyn and James Allestry, Printers to the Royal Society

http://digicoll.library.wisc.edu/cgi-bin/HistSciTech/HistSciTech-idx?type=turn&entity=HistSciTech.HookeMicro.p0213&id=HistSciTech.HookeMicro&isize=M

livelymorgue:

March 15, 1955: A Times article reporting a protest of service cuts on trains running between Weehawken, N.J., and Albany carried this photo of someone’s nightmare, and adopted a lighthearted tone: “These little piggies went to Weehawken,” the caption read; “A hog can ride the West Shore — why can’t you?” the passengers chanted. Photo: William C. Eckenberg/The New York Times

mariaramosbravo:

https://www.revistakiwi.com/