A detail from a drinking trough (from Uruk, 3300-3000 BC) depicting a Mudhif (a traditional reed house made by the Madan people in the marshlands of southern Iraq). And 2 other pictures showing Mudhif structures still being built in the marshlands with the same technique 5000 years later [2189x4423]
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Pillar 43 at the 12,000-year-old Göbekli Tepe in Turkey, decorated with the carvings of 3 handbag-shaped objects (architectural structures?), a vulture with a sphere balanced on its wing, other birds, a snake, a scorpion and a headless man with an erect penis on the bottom right corner [2477x2060]
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The Stag Hunt Mosaic signed by Gnosis, from the House of the Abduction of Helen in Pella, Greece, late 4th century BCE. The figures on the mosaic are possibly Alexander the Great on the right, Hephaistos on the left and the dog depicted is possibly Peritas, Alexander's favorite dog [960x600]
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One of the robes said to have belonged to St Francis of Assisi (1181-1226 CE), an Italian Catholic friar and mystic who founded the Franciscans and one of the most venerated figures in Christianity. He was inspired to lead a life of poverty as an itinerant preacher [1362x2048]
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In 1938, 17 brass and copper heads and the upper half of a brass figure (dated to the 14th-15th century CE) were found by accident during house building works at Ife in Nigeria. The realism and sophisticated craftsmanship of the objects challenged Western conceptions of African art [1061x1222]
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A gold and silver inlaid bronze cylindrical chariot canopy pole fitting, excavated from tomb M122 at Dingxian, China. 2nd century BCE, Western Han dynasty, now part of the collection of Hebei Provincial Institute of Cultural Relics. The right picture is an illustration of the decoration [1430x2572]
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Its been technically 500 years not a thousand, but yes
The codex wasn't made 500 years ago, I put the date in the title.
So who stole the other 3 and where are they? Because they belong in the Americas.
One is in Paris, one is in Madrid and the most complete is in Dresden and was heavily damaged in WW2.
Could you link a picture of the original one?
Here's a
Honestly that's just as impressive. Wow.
Yeah of course, it's just that the replica in OP's post looks brand new while the original doesn't.
Now housed at the Santuario della Verna.
More info here:
It’s a shame that most of them have been stolen from the museum over the years
Source? Cause many of them has gone into multiple traveling exhibitions in the biggest Western museums in the past decades.
I heard it from Waldemar Januszczak in
Then either they were stolen long ago and then found again or Waldemar Januszczak is just wrong. The British museum for example and the Boston museum of fine arts had temporary exhibitions about the ife heads where almost all of them were on display, and in their websites the objects are cited as original.
Oh wow! I never knew this!! Thank you so much for posting!
You're welcome :)
Here's a
Thank you!
You're welcome :)
https://artsandculture.google.com/asset/jin-silk-hat-with-flowering-trees-and-confronted-deer-in-beaded-floral-fan/DAEP4l0OF18LEQ?hl=en