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Originally posted on Living Textiles of Mexico:
Returning to Chiapas after two years, a NEW world class textile museum was waiting to be explored. The Centro de Textiles del Mundo Maya is located in the Convento Santo Domingo in San Cristobal…
Originally posted on Ertegun House:
Preserved by the dry desert sands of Egypt, innumerable manuscript fragments written on parchment and papyrus have been discovered by archaeologists since the eighteenth century. Largely recovered from the rubbish heaps, these ancient documents provide…
Originally posted on Aliens in This World:
This is the sort of book that I’d really really like to get my hands on. Unfortunately, it’s a bit expensive (40 bucks even in paperback), so I’ll have to look around to…
Originally posted on Sol Ascendans – The Website of Alex Sumner:
Line-drawing of a recently re-discovered Defixion or curse tablet. A slow day on Planet Sumner today, which is why I was forced into reading the Daily Mail, where lo…
Found in a jar along with an inscribed tablet, this Curse Doll is now at the Louvre. Voodoo dolls were around even in ancient Greece. Above is an example of a Curse Doll. Called by the Greeks, the arms and legs … Continue reading
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