deconversionmovement:

Big Idea Bring Ancient Voices Back to Life

Rebuilding the vocal tracts of extinct creatures could let us hear long-lost sounds: an ancient whale song, the cries of our ancestors.

The call of the wild has just gotten wilder. Along with bellowing lions and honking geese, you can now hear woolly mammoths that died out 14,000 years ago, the mating call of a now-extinct Hawaiian bird, and even a 3-million-year-old human ancestor, Lucy. Using three-dimensional imaging and a burgeoning knowledge of ancient anatomies, 
scientists can now rebuild ancient creatures’ vocal tracts and re-create their sounds.

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ancientart:

The Ancient Egyptian death mask Pharaoh Tutankhamun. Currently at the Egyptian Museum, Cairo. 1323 BC

ancientart:

Ancient Greek sculpture Laocoön and His Sons, 25 BC, White marble, currently located at the Vatican Museums, Rome. 

Michelangelo was called to the site of the unearthing of the statue immediately after its discovery, and seeing it served as one of his main inspirations in his art and sculpturing.

cambridgenoir:

Not everyone in the museum was delighted with their new quarters.

openaccessarchaeology:

New Open Access Article- Sydney B.J. Skertchly and the Early History of Pleistocene Archaeology at the Queensland Museum

http://www.archaeologybulletin.org/article/view/bha.22114/549

thelastsupperafterparty:

Akhtamar Island on Lake Van with the Armenian Cathedral of the Holy Cross

peroculi:

Sevanavank / Սեւանավանք at Lake Sevan, Armenia (by frans.sellies)

archtravels:

Khachkars (also spelled Khatchkar) of the Noratus cemetery.  After the destruction of the khachkars in Old Julfa by the Azerbaijani government in the 1990’s, it is is the oldest and largest remaining khachkar field. The oldest khachkars here date back to the 10th century.

archtravels:

Hayravank Monastery, which is currently undergoing renovations 

jtotheizzoe:

DNA from Cavemen Bones Unlock Pieces of Oldest Human Genome to Date

About 7,000 years ago, high in Spain’s northern Cantabrian mountains, a pair of weary hunters took refuge in a deep cavern, never to emerge again. Until 2006, that is, when these early humans were uncovered by cave explorers.

Dating from pre-agricultural Europe, these remains predate Ötzi the Iceman by nearly two millenia. Recently, scientists were able to piece together about 1% of each caveman’s genome, using techniques right out of CSI: Iceman. 

The DNA of these early Iberians does not appear related to modern Spanish and Portuguese, but rather more closely related to Northern Europeans. Certain parts of their DNA show that early Europeans from Poland and Lithuania were brethren of those as far away as Spain … truly nomadic hunter-gatherers!

These represent the earliest genome sequences of modern humans. The percentage of the genome that they sequence should go up as the team continues its work, and we’ll know even more about how the earliest humans in Europe contributed to the world we see today.

(↬ LiveScience)

(Source: ass-yrian)

hipnerd63:

Book of Hours of Jeanne d’Evreux