a soft looking and somewhat worn felt swan with a big beak and trailing feathers

thinking about this 1500 year old plush swan made of reindeer wool

Amazonian royal flycatcher: #AGoodPlace

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Men’s outfits. The desert climate and a non-flying lifestyle have dressed the Harpies in more covered garments.

Women's outfits. Alongside long dresses (entari), shalwar, and sashes, the absence of turbans is striking. In the women's wardrobe, they have been replaced by a headdress called the hotoz.

Archaeologists have discovered 12,000-year-old dice – here’s what they reveal about the history of play You can compare throwing one of these ancient dice to a coin toss – although this discovery also underscores that dice are much older than coins.

📰 Prehistoric dice from North America hint at humanity's long history of play, suggesting games of chance were popular as far back as 12,000 years ago 🎲

🏺 #ArchaeologyNews via @uk.theconversation.com

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This gremlin wants to cuddle all the time!

Vatican aid convoy to southern Lebanese town forced back by bombardment - Sight Magazine Bombardment in southern Lebanon on Tuesday forced back a convoy of humanitarian aid organised by the Vatican's embassy.

Vatican aid convoy to southern Lebanese town forced back by bombardment @sightmagazine.bsky.social #Iran #Iranwar #Lebanon #Vatican #humanitarianaid #Hezbollah #Israel #Debel #ChristiansinLebanon

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Lebanon. An Israeli soldier smashing the head off a statue of Jesus.

A local page from the christian town of Debel mention that the statue belongs to them

The page remarked:

“Father, forgive them; for they know not what they do” (Luke 23:34)

A red and black dragon types on a laptop, while a red dragon threateningly holds a giant Ban Hammer over his head.

Happy birthday to Syranoth, from Entropy!

#dragon #dragonart #furryart #scalieart

Valinor 💙🤍
Sketchy Icon made for Valinor

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Open slots for sketches. Info pinned ^^

This stuff back in the 1100s would have been enough to declare a crusade 😭
It's sad stuff like this goes unpunished.
We need a new Pope Urban II.

Snakey stickers..! For @coffee.cobra.monster

#scalie

Fish..?

First Patreon reward for April~!

#scalie

I came across a peculiar slime while exploring secrets locked away in Zeskra vaults, a sudden urge to pleasure myself with it overwhelmed my senses. I gave in of course...

Open for three sketches like the examples below, $60, claim via comments and dms please

color sketch comm for @kelda.bsky.social!

try finger, but hole

Oh, on a closer look...
It seems to even show the church of Santa Reparata!!!

The cathedral was built by progressively demolishing the older church, starting from the facade.
So I imagine that's what's visible behind the half finished facade

Holy fuck, I had no idea that the unfinished facade was shown on the painting at the loggia del Bigallo!!!!
That's peak.
And I learnt something new about the loggia del Bigallo yay

And I'm happy to see museums in the past few decades give more and more importante to the context of the stuff they have on display.

Oh? I haven't seen the reply my bad!
I'll take a look 👀

And aw it's a shame you missed it.
I LOVE that those statues are not "randomly thrown in an art gallery", but they're contextualised in the recreated facade.
It's so much better

I didn't know that about Barcelona, but now i'm sad 😭
I realise that, obviously, this is part of the expression of socio-cultural ideals of the time. It's not inherently evil, or bad. It actually has its own historical value now.

But still a bit sad that original medieval stuff has been lost

Interestingly tho, for the cathedral of Florence, the coloruful architectural decorations at the sides are actually original medieval.
The facade was the only thing left unfinished (as well as 7 of the 8 sides of the dome's tambour/drum)

Interestingly, for the Cathedral's facade, we actually had it partially built in the 1300s, until it was dismantled.

Today, it survives in the "Museo dell'opera" in Florence, where with the original statues, the original facade was reassembled.

The same happened to Florence's Santa Croce church.
Late 1800s

As a Florentine myself I have absolute HATRED for what they did to my city after it became Italy's capital for a few years 😭😭

Entire medieval neighbourhoods demolished, alongside most of the city walls.

So much has been lost.
And the neo-gothic facade of the cathedral isn't the only example:

Have a birt 🐦‍⬛

Flatten the bird! Do not stop until his head practically sticks to your rear!

🎨 @mechaclank.bsky.social

Should I make an exclusively sfw account, I wonder?
Where I can yap about history and archaeology stuff too if anyone's interested?
I've been tempted to try to come out of my shyness and test the water at archaeological divulgation :D

Theri sticker !

A loose sketch of an acheroraptor, sitting on it's haunches

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