WorkLizard | History | Favorites https://worklizard.com/u/history/activity/favorites/ Activity feed of History's favorites. Mon, 01 Jun 2026 12:39:08 +0000 https://buddypress.org/?v= en-US 30 hourly 2 14dcf2bf81a1d3367ba6e5ff8510c680 Crystal D.S. • Museum of Artifacts: Burgonet helmet, part of the Chimera set, circa 1560-1570 https://worklizard.com/activity/p/5550/ Sun, 17 Jan 2021 10:00:58 +0000 Burgonet helmet, part of the Chimera set, circa 1560-1570

]]> 0 05c2be6147a50bacf0368ff8f487fd05 Crystal D.S. • Museum of Artifacts: A wooden sarcophagus rises from the sand in Abydos after […] https://worklizard.com/activity/p/5548/ Sat, 16 Jan 2021 17:00:22 +0000 A wooden sarcophagus rises from the sand in Abydos after thousands of years in silence, Egypt

]]> 0 4faa631abff03397da1fd485db1b1fab Crystal D.S. • Museum of Artifacts: A ceramic jar filled with thousands of bronze coins unearthed […] https://worklizard.com/activity/p/5547/ Sat, 16 Jan 2021 16:59:42 +0000 A ceramic jar filled with thousands of bronze coins unearthed at the site of a 15th-century samurai’s residence just north of Tokyo

]]> 0 a225b01a0adea69cb69a26bfbb7d3ed8 solum • Museum of Artifacts: The reconstructed Sutton Hoo Helmet #History #Saxons #AncientH […] https://worklizard.com/activity/p/5441/ Mon, 07 Dec 2020 18:12:31 +0000 The reconstructed Sutton Hoo Helmet #History #Saxons #AncientHistory

]]> 0 9162d02e2f0f65dd41c4703b8e17dd40 Jonas • Classical Music: Hicâz Mandira · Mediterraneo - Christina Pluhar ( […] https://worklizard.com/activity/p/5236/ Sun, 13 Sep 2020 12:36:23 +0000 Hicâz Mandira · Mediterraneo – Christina Pluhar (2012).

The entirety of Mediterraneo recreates the music from the Mediterranean basin, Portugal to Turkey. This particular song, Hicâz mandira, is the name of traditional fast dance in 7 beats (2-2-3) for Abdülaziz; a Sultan which ruled the Ottoman Empire from 1861-1876.

]]> 0 ee4ce317ab6fea478996168abfe546df solum • Nature: Giant Groundsels, prehistoric plants found on top of Mt […] https://worklizard.com/activity/p/5216/ Mon, 07 Sep 2020 15:07:52 +0000 Giant Groundsels, prehistoric plants found on top of Mt Kilimanjaro

]]> 0 b9244c1e6c66169bf4de454bed644956 Jonas • Museum of Artifacts: A cover of a circular imperial boxe depicting five […] https://worklizard.com/activity/p/5212/ Thu, 03 Sep 2020 20:26:58 +0000 A cover of a circular imperial boxe depicting five five-clawed dragons emerging from waves. Red lacquer on wood, from the reign of Qianlong, 1736-95, part of the Royal Collection Trust. #China #QingDynasty

]]> 0 891e6c0c576a9add0637ac3b5314703a Jonas • Museum of Artifacts: Terracotta volute-krater (bowl for mixing wine and water) […] https://worklizard.com/activity/p/5211/ Thu, 03 Sep 2020 20:24:43 +0000 Terracotta volute-krater (bowl for mixing wine and water) with stand. ca. 430 B.C. Greek, Attic. #Greece #AncientHistory

]]> 0 1504a8e12d5912d0e2370db26f692980 Jonas • Nature: A baby toucan #Animals #Birds https://worklizard.com/activity/p/5205/ Sat, 29 Aug 2020 22:08:59 +0000 A baby toucan #Animals #Birds

]]> 0 5bf134d87ffe78efb92c475bd796e28c Jonas • Museum of Artifacts: Blade for a chariot wheel. China, Warring States period, 5th […] https://worklizard.com/activity/p/5204/ Sat, 29 Aug 2020 18:31:38 +0000 Blade for a chariot wheel. China, Warring States period, 5th century BC (Zhou Dynasty) #History #China #AncientHistory

This bronze blade was once attached to the axle of a chariot wheel, and is known as a wei. It was used to keep enemy foot soldiers away from the chariot. Source: Hubai Provincial Museum in Wuhan, China

]]> 0 e786443864c059146917d504988bbaca Jonas • Museum of Artifacts: One of the six known Viking Age perforated axe head with a […] https://worklizard.com/activity/p/5203/ Sat, 29 Aug 2020 18:27:34 +0000 One of the six known Viking Age perforated axe head with a cut-out cross design, dating from 950 – 1050. This specific model is from Ludvigshave, Denmark. #History #Vikings

]]> 0 09d335618e4f1a3a647f8bf825132ecd Jonas • Museum of Artifacts: A silver Tetradrachm showing Alexander the Great. 306-281 […] https://worklizard.com/activity/p/5202/ Sat, 29 Aug 2020 18:25:29 +0000 A silver Tetradrachm showing Alexander the Great. 306-281 B.C. Minted by: King Lysimachus of Thrace #History #AncientHistory

]]> 0 b2e05383a49bb06fd2114327c63ad5a7 Jonas • Museum of Artifacts: A Relief Panel depicting an Assyrian sage with purifying […] https://worklizard.com/activity/p/5201/ Sat, 29 Aug 2020 18:24:05 +0000 A Relief Panel depicting an Assyrian sage with purifying conifer cone and bucket from Nimrud, Iraq, ca 9th century BCE #History #AncientHistory #Assyrian

The wall panel was excavated in the Northwest Palace of Nimrud, Iraq and is now in the Metropolitan Museum.

The Urartians were a neighbor and fierce rival of the Assyrian empire, and Urartian art borrows many elements of Assyrian iconography.

In Assyrian art, sages (Akkadian apkallū) are often depicted holding a “purifier” (Akk. mullilu, some sort of conifer cone) in the right hand and a “bucket” (Akk. banduddû) in the left hand. For example, one spell describes the magical figurines necessary for the ritual.

]]> 0 deb8bc679f9283301d8c6f00a9848b55 Jonas • Museum of Artifacts: Löwenmensch figurine. The oldest known zoomorphic […] https://worklizard.com/activity/p/5200/ Sat, 29 Aug 2020 18:21:19 +0000 Löwenmensch figurine. The oldest known zoomorphic (animal-shaped) sculpture in the world, & the oldest known uncontested example of figurative art. Found in Germany 1939, carbon dating of the layer in which it was found has determined it’s age is between 35,000 – 40,000 yrs old. #History #AncientHistory

Read more about the Löwenmensch figurine (otherwise called the Lion-man of the Hohlenstein-Stadel) on Wikipedia

]]> 0 99cfa80eefcb6b05fb8b45f96166cbbf Jonas • Museum of Artifacts: The Dabous Giraffes, Aïr Mountains, Niger. Completed by an […] https://worklizard.com/activity/p/5199/ Sat, 29 Aug 2020 18:18:43 +0000 The Dabous Giraffes, Aïr Mountains, Niger. Completed by an unknown artist ca 6000-8000 years ago #History #AncientHistory

More info: British Museum

]]> 0 acfdc38f80bda2a9baa42d7f288bce5e Jonas • Museum of Artifacts: A Japanese silver incense burner in the form of an elephant. […] https://worklizard.com/activity/p/5198/ Sat, 29 Aug 2020 18:16:21 +0000 A Japanese silver incense burner in the form of an elephant. Meiji period, 1890, part of the Khalili Collection #History #Japan

A silver koro modelled as an elaborately caparisoned elephant with a richly embellished harness comprising a bejewelled saddle-cloth bearing shishi masks and minogame, supporting a coiled dragon standing on swirling clouds holding a large rock-crystal ball. The creature’s headdress in the form of a stepped base upon which stands a gold ho-o bird with its wings spread. The whole carved and applied in shakudo, shibuichi, gold, silver, and a shakudo-copper mokume alloy. Details of the caparison are inlaid in rock crystal, malachite, coral, tiger’s-eye, agate, and nephrite.

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]]> 0 696ed979814afdd38098f1b4608b1769 Jonas • Museum of Artifacts: The Gundestrup cauldron. Made of primarily silver, ca. 2100 […] https://worklizard.com/activity/p/5080/ Fri, 17 Jul 2020 13:00:55 +0000 The Gundestrup cauldron. Made of primarily silver, ca. 2100 years old. #Celts #AncientHistory

Most likely made by the Scythians in modern-day Bulgaria and decorated with Celtic iconography.

It was found dismantled, with the other pieces stacked inside the base, in 1891 in a peat bog near the hamlet of Gundestrup in the Aars parish of Himmerland, Denmark

]]> 0 e137f152857738edc84695ee203cdae7 Jonas • Museum of Artifacts: Clay tablet recording beer given to workers. Made around […] https://worklizard.com/activity/p/5078/ Fri, 17 Jul 2020 12:51:43 +0000 Clay tablet recording beer given to workers. Made around 3100–3000 BC in Mesopotamia, this clay tablet has some of the earliest writing from anywhere in the world. #AncientHistory

]]> 0 361bb4408fd1c578f4e447b407192eb9 Jonas • Museum of Artifacts: Roman Bronze Helmet. 2nd - 3rd century AD. #AncientRome #Ancie […] https://worklizard.com/activity/p/5076/ Fri, 17 Jul 2020 00:56:11 +0000 Roman Bronze Helmet. 2nd – 3rd century AD. #AncientRome #AncientHistory

Phrygian in style, cavalry helmet, terminating in the head of an eagle, decorated with an all-over scale pattern, a warrior and winged victories.

Source: Mougins Museum in Cannes, France

]]> 0 1fa6d457a4f7f7463fc00d5cd7f836a9 TopDocs wrote a new post https://worklizard.com/?p=13342 Mon, 06 Apr 2020 21:07:58 +0000 Investigate Ancient Egypt as this four-part documentary series brings to life the land of the Pharaohs at the time of the great dynasties.

Filmed in the deserts and river deltas of Egypt and Morocco, Ancient […]

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