Spotted angel number 1919 recently? It’s time to take note! With the life-changing energies of 1 and 9, angel number 1919 signals rapid forward movement,
We want to test your antiques knowledge of the BBC show
So you think you have what it takes to become an antique dealer? The highly-specialized world of buying and selling rare furnishings is a tough place to break into, but we think you have the knowledge, intuition, and negotiating tactics to turn a hobby into a full-fledged career! Take this quiz and find out how much you could make selling antiques. Antiquing involves appraising the historical value of any given object and then comparing it with the maximum possible market value. Buyers know what they want, but sometimes the sellers don’t know how to give it to them. Can you purchase these antiques at a slim enough margin to still make money later on without scaring the buyers away? If you want to find out, you better take this quiz! Your answers will determine how much money you will make, so answer carefully! Share your results, and don’t forget to tag a friend to go antiquing with next weekend!
Generally, the older the gold, the purer the gold. But that’s generally. Precisely speaking, there are a lot of factors that determine the purity and
Giulio Camillo Delminio (1480-1544) was an Italian Renaissance polymath. His most famous project, started in ca.1519 and carried on until his death, was “The Theatre of Memory,” an ideal architectural structure destined to “tener collocati e a ministrar tutti gli umani concetti, tutte le cose...
Believed to be progenies of ancient Egypt, the Dogon people who live in the central plateau region of Mali, are among the few African tribes who have managed to preserve their culture over the years. They are renowned for their knowledge about the Sirius system which dates back to 3200 BC, long before scientists discovered it in 1862. According to...
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They say you should never judge a book by it's cover and that has never been more accurate with this collection of vintage book covers. More
Hey all! Sorry I've been away from the blog for a bit. It was a combination of the Birthday and going up to the cabin and just general lack of time. But I'm back now, and it's time for a Wednesday Weird! Today we're talking about the Phaistos Disc. The disc is a fired clay disc about 5 1/2 inches wide with symbols pressed into each side in a spiral pattern. There are 45 unique symbols, comprising a “message” of 241 symbols. It was discovered in 1908 in Crete, and dates from around 1500BC. Okay, so kinda cool. But what makes it more interesting is that no one knows what it says. Despite a century of study, the disc remain unreadable. Scientists think it was meant to be read from the outside spiraling in. There are some other marks that may represent paragraph breaks, and it seems it was edited which all lead to people to believe that it is indeed writing and not just decoration. And a votive axe found in 1934, the Arkalochori Axe, shares some of the symbols. But scholars concluded the symbols on the axe were carved by an illiterate and were just strung together for looks. But, one of the most interesting aspects of the disc is that it was made using movable type. Meaning, the symbols weren't carved by hand, they were pressed into the clay using stamps. Which means it beats the invention of movable type by close to 1500 years! Bam! Take that, printing press!
The Initiates of the Flame by M.P. Hall
“Cybele’s themes are love, health, humor, victory, strength and relationships. Her symbols are pine, meteorite stones and keys. A black stone that personified this Roman earth Goddess…
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A classical Greco-Roman rhetorical tradition survives in Christian iconography
Make-Believe & Reality. Depicted by R. (Richard) André. London, Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge. New York, E. & J.B. Young & Co., 1884. First edition. This is the story of a group of...
1947 Lithograph Domus Roman House Vestibulum Atrium Peristylum Genevieve XHD7
No need for your reading glasses on this one, but perhaps some knowledge of 18th century Spanish might be useful. This is one of a collection of twelve giant books made in 1715 by a priest in New Spain (as in Spanish colonial Mexico), currently being preserved by the library of the National Autonomo
Les mégalithes employés à des fins cultuelles ou astronomiques diffèrent selon les lieux et les époques. Pierres brutes ou dégauchies dolmens et pierres levées en occident Bretagne - France Lande granitique de Bodmin Moor - les cornouailles - UK Stonehenge...
