This is a great demonstration of cultural exchange. It’s a frieze in the classical style from what is now Pakistan with distinctive subcontinental styling on the figures, but depicting Dionysus (L) dead drunk at a revel propped up by two women.
Incidentally, I blame the US electorate for everything that has happened under Trump. They knew what type of person he was. Nov 25th 2015. It should have ended here.
I know we’ve all been a little distracted by the whole possible Armageddon thing—but the Vice President of the United States is currently in Hungary campaigning for Viktor Orbán.
Yes. That Viktor Orbán. The authoritarian one. The one who might be about to lose.
I watched that cringe-filled moment. On behalf of the people who share this rock with you, we’re sorry that HE had to be a part of any of your historic journey.
In some versions of the Greek myth, the Sphinx asks Oedipus a second riddle: "There are two sisters: one gives birth to the other and she, in turn, gives birth to the first. Who are the two sisters?" The answer is "day and night" (both words are feminine in Ancient Greek). #WyrdWednesday
Fungi are considered distinct organisms belonging to their own unique kingdom, not plants. While they were historically classified with plants, they are biologically more closely related to animals.
A wave formation in the aurora over the Chena Hills, photographed from the Granite Tors Trail. The glow on the horizon is light pollution from Fairbanks and North Pole, about 40 miles away.
Orchid Mantis (Latin: Hymenopus coronatus) The Malaysian flower mantis, or orchid mantis, is a very rare insect. These mantises come in a variety of colors, ranging from pink to yellow to white.
There is absolutely NO DOUBT in my mind that the people who make weapons and make billions off the deaths they cause find a reason every few years to "need to go to war and kill people" so they have to make more weapons.
These city walls of Chichester are Roman, still standing and still impressive. They were built or completed in this form at the end of the C3rd AD. Whilst they’ve been maintained since, they’re essentially the same as the year they were finished. A wonderful survival.