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The structure is about 18m tall and was built entirely from sun-dried mudbricks. Kerma is considered first expression of Kushite culture and one of earliest known urban settlements in Nile Valley south of Egypt.

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Archaeo - Histories @archaeohistories.bsky.social · 2h

The Western Deffufa, a large mud-brick structure located in Kerma, Sudan 🇸🇩

The Western Deffufa is a unique structure that served as a temple and religious center for the ancient city of Kerma. It dates back to the Kingdom of Kerma, between 2500-1500 BC.

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Archaeo - Histories @archaeohistories.bsky.social · 3h

Macedonian warrior's helmet and burial mask, 520 BC, were discovered in Tomb 115 in Sindos, currently housed in Thessaloniki Archaeological Museum.

This remarkable artifact consists of gold sheet that was carefully placed over warrior's face, preserving imprint of his features.

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Archaeo - Histories @archaeohistories.bsky.social · 3h

Gorgona Medusa and her son Chrysaor flanked by two lionesses or panthers. Dated 580 BC, the pediment is from the temple of Artemis on the island of Corfu. I’m curios whether her other son, the winged horse Pegasus, was also depicted originally.

Archaeological Museum of Corfu 🇬🇷

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Archaeo - Histories @archaeohistories.bsky.social · 3h

A stunning hand-crafted steel gate adorns a Manhattan brownstone on the city’s Lower West Side — its design inspired by Georges Méliès’s visionary 1902 film A Trip to the Moon, itself a cinematic tribute to Jules Verne’s 19th Century classic From the Earth to the Moon.

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Archaeo - Histories @archaeohistories.bsky.social · 3h

The castle was opened as a museum in 1975 and also features a restaurant and a chapel. It is located between the cities of Zwickau and Reichenbach.

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Archaeo - Histories @archaeohistories.bsky.social · 3h

Schönfels Castle (Burg Schönfels), a hilltop castle located in the community of Lichtentanne in Saxony, Germany 🇩🇪

The castle was built in 12th Century and has an oval floor plan with a two-court complex. It has been well-maintained and was extensively restored after 1945.

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Archaeo - Histories @archaeohistories.bsky.social · 1d

Damnn... It really hurts 😆

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Archaeo - Histories @archaeohistories.bsky.social · 1d

One in a diamond cluster forming thorax, four-stone abdomen with diamond accents in between, demantoid garnet eyes, scrolling antennae with diamond set terminals, mounted in gold and platinum.

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Archaeo - Histories @archaeohistories.bsky.social · 1d

Butterfly brooch features unusual green, demantoid garnets and diamonds 'en tremblant' (1900)

Tremblant wings with pierced diamond set 'veining' and two lines of small circular cut demantoid garnets, body set with line of darker oval cut demantoid garnets.

Sold on S.J. Philips

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Archaeo - Histories @archaeohistories.bsky.social · 1d

The 21st Century version of a 'Message in a Bottle' 😄

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Archaeo - Histories @archaeohistories.bsky.social · 1d

The object, known as a gravoir, is the first of its kind ever found in Scotland and one of just three known in the whole of the United Kingdom.

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Archaeo - Histories @archaeohistories.bsky.social · 1d

A rare 13th Century hair-styling implement has been unearthed at Eilean Donan Castle in the Scottish Highlands and is housed in the National Museums Scotland collection.

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Archaeo - Histories @archaeohistories.bsky.social · 1d

The helmet is part of collection at Kunsthistorisches Museum (KHM) in Vienna, Austria. The helmet itself dates to around 1350, while the crest was added in 15th Century AD. The crest is a decorative element on a helmet, often used to identify a knight in battle or tournaments.

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Archaeo - Histories @archaeohistories.bsky.social · 1d

A helmet with a crest, identified as "Topfhelm of Albert von Prankh."

The Imperial Armoury of Kunsthistorisches Museum is a popular attraction, featuring armor and ceremonial weapons.

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Archaeo - Histories @archaeohistories.bsky.social · 1d

The original structure dates back to 13th Century AD. The castle was deliberately burned down in 1715 AD, during the Jacobite rising to prevent it from falling into the hands of royal troops.

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Archaeo - Histories @archaeohistories.bsky.social · 1d

Castle Tioram, a ruined castle located on a tidal island in Loch Moidart, Scotland 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿

The castle is situated on the rocky island of Eilean Tioram, which is accessible on foot at low tide. It was the ancestral seat of the Clanranald, a branch of the Clan Donald, for centuries.

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Archaeo - Histories @archaeohistories.bsky.social · 2d

A member of the Women's Royal Army Corps (WRAC) of the ‘London District' shows off the new butterfly tattoo on her leg to her fellow enlistees (early 1940s)...

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Archaeo - Histories @archaeohistories.bsky.social · 2d

In 2020, Egyptian Prime Minister Mustafa Madbouly (left) and Mostafa Waziri, Secretary General of Supreme Council of Antiquities, with treasure artifacts that Egyptian archaeologists recently unearthed in a vast necropolis south of Cairo, Egypt.

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Archaeo - Histories @archaeohistories.bsky.social · 2d

The doors are in the Art Deco style, which was popular in 1920s and 1930s. The Palmer House is one of the oldest hotels in Chicago and was originally built in 1871.

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Archaeo - Histories @archaeohistories.bsky.social · 2d

The Tiffany Peacock Brass Doors, which are located in the Palmer House hotel in Chicago, Illinois 🇺🇸

The doors are a well-known feature of the historic hotel. They are a pair of ornate brass elevator doors featuring a peacock motif.

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Archaeo - Histories @archaeohistories.bsky.social · 2d

Three suspension terminals feature a siren or harpy. These were for a chain so vessel could be carried.

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Archaeo - Histories @archaeohistories.bsky.social · 2d

Samovar (Self Brewer), a metal container traditionally used to heat and boil water. It was used to serve warm liquids. Charcoal in hollow centre of vessel heated water within double wall. Liquid then came out of a tap decorated as a head of an eastern barbarian.

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Archaeo - Histories @archaeohistories.bsky.social · 2d

Roman Bronze Samovar found in Pompeii (1st Century AD) ....

Museo Archeologico Nazionale di Napoli

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Archaeo - Histories @archaeohistories.bsky.social · 2d

Karahan Tepe considered "sister site" to Göbekli Tepe due to similarities in their T-shaped pillars and other structures. Face is actually carved as T-shape itself, although other human statues and stone masks have this also. No other T-pillars in region have a face on top of T-pillar like this one.

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