Lines From The Epic Of Gilgamesh That Make Me Feel Like This

Jeweled medici dagger, ca. 1840

Illustrations by Vyacheslav Nazaruk to the tales of Pavel Bazhov

Hades’ kids on their way to fuck your shit up

Illustrations for Russian fairytales by Ivan Bilibin

Got tagged by my favorite person @martythevampire to shuffle and write the first 10 songs that come up

1. The messenger-Bathory

2. Satanic jam-Death

3. Father to son-Bathory

4. Deliverance-Gojira

5. Cunt Crusher-Infant annihilator

6. Drown-Bring me the horizon

7. Key to the storms-Mayhem

8. The crowned daughters-Belzebubs

9. The cell-Gojira

10. Inn I Slottet Fra Droemmen-Burzum

A man and woman wearing Mongolian (蒙古族) attire for a douyin trend. Ethnic Mongolians are one of 56 official ethnic groups in China.

Scythian mummy tomb (Fifth Pazyryk Kurgan), Pazyryk culture 3rd C. BCE. More pictures on my blog, link at bottom.

"The pair were buried alongside nine horses, a huge cache of cannabis and a stash of priceless treasures - including the world's oldest carpet and an ornate carriage.

The man had curly hair and was aged between 55 and 60 when he died, whilst the woman was about ten years younger.

It is believed he was a chieftain or king of the Pazyryk civilisation, which lived in Kazakhstan, Siberia and Mongolia from the 6th to 3rd centuries BC."

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"The attractive log cabin was a prefabricated construction by the prehistoric Pazyryk culture to house an elite tomb - in which was buried a mummified curly-haired potentate and his younger wife or concubine.

The mound in the Altai Mountains was originally 42 metres in diameter, and this tattooed couple went to the next life alongside nine geldings, saddled and harnessed.

The house itself, recently reconstructed, was not built as a dwelling but nevertheless is seen by archeologists as showing the style of domestic architecture more than two millennia ago.

This structure was the outer of two wooden houses in the large burial mound in the valley of the River Bolshoy Ulagan at an altitude of around 1,600 metres above sea level.

The core of the mound including the ice-preserved bodies of the elite couple had been excavated by Soviet archeologists in 1949, and many of the finds are on on display in the world famous State Hermitage Museum in St Petersburg.

As we have previously written, the pair - who owned perhaps the world’s oldest carpets - are currently undergoing an ultra modern medical scan to establish the cause of death, and reconstruct the appearance of the ancient pair, and to study the techniques of mummification in more detail.

Yet in 1949 this fascinating house was left in the permafrost ground - and only retrieved now from the so-called Fifth Pazyryk Barrow, to the excitement of archeologists.

Head of the excavation Dr Nikita Konstantinov from Gorno-Altaisk State University, was full of admiration about the skills of the ancient craftsmen.

‘We took out the log house and reassembled it right next to the mound,’ he said.

‘We made kind of express reconstruction, which made it possible to study the log house in detail.

‘Notches were made on each of its logs - building marks…’.

This was like IKEA instructions today for building their products, telling modern day excavation volunteers how to correctly construct the prehistoric building kit.

The result is seen in the pictures shown here.

‘This log house was first built somewhere away from the mound, then it was dismantled, brought and reassembled in the pit,’ said Dr Konstantinov.

‘Today we build in similar way, using Roman numerals, as a rule.

‘In those times they simply made different numbers of notches.’

The archeological team followed the code left by the ancient craftsmen and reassembled the house without problems.

‘The Pazyryks knitted the corners of the building in a masterly way and chopped the attachment points of these logs.

‘They fitted very cleanly….

‘When we built the log house and began to measure the height, it turned out that the height difference in the angles is only one centimetre.’

In modern constructions, a difference of 7 cm is allowed which showed how skilful were the ancient craftsmen.

He said: ‘This is a funerary structure, but we can say with a high degree of probability that the log cabin was created in the image and likeness of the houses in which the Pazyryks lived."

-taken from siberiantimes and thesun

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Scythian mummy tomb (Fifth Pazyryk Kurgan), Pazyryk culture 4th-3rd C. BCE

i wanna cuddle someone close and while they're playing with my hair i want to kiss their cheek and tell them they're my comrade

Domari people (middle eastern romani) of Palestine

(1) A domari tent in Jerusalem near the Damascus Gate, 1920s

(2) A domari street circus in Jerusalem, 1905

(3) Domari dancer and musician in Mandatory Palestine, 1930s

(4) Domari settlement at the north of the Damascus Gate, 1914

(5) Domari musician and dancers in Galilee, 1920s

(6) Domari women and children in a domari settlement in Mandatory Palestine, 1920s

7) Domari woman with seashells in the hand to tell fortune, near the sea of Galilee in Palestine, 1930s

pov: you’re Paris and you must choose