ajal:

Norwegian Bride

Photograph by Per Braaten, 1935. (via w5ran)

wasbella102:

Vintage 1920’s Toaster

allmesopotamia:

Never ending beauty of Ur

ex-bearbot:

The Ishtar Gate from Ancient Babylon (in its reconstructed state at the Berlin Museum) from the 6th century BCE, one of the great feats of world architecture and one of the original Seven Wonders. Nowhere to be found on Tumblr, which is sad, so I thought I’d rectify that.

(Source: yourownpersonaljesus, via allmesopotamia)

allmesopotamia:

An inscribed tablet (which mentions curses against anyone disturbing the tomb) found in ancient city of Nimrud.

Cool!

(via allmesopotamia)

allmesopotamia:

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grrlandog:

The Grizzly Bear Chair apparently was a gift for American president Andrew Johnson in 1865 by a hunter and frontiersman named Seth Kinman. — he also made a fiddle out of the skull of his favorite mule and gave it to Abraham Lincoln.

theancientworld:

Hafted axe with dragons

ca. 1300-1200 B.C.E.

Unidentified, Chinese
Late Shang dynasty
Early Anyang period

Bronze with turquoise inlay and jade (nephrite) blade
Anyang, China

Smithsonian Museums

allmesopotamia:

Uruk from space

mothernaturenetwork:

At 4,841 years old, this ancient bristlecone pine is the oldest known non-clonal organism on Earth. Located in the White Mountains of California, in Inyo National Forest, Methuselah’s exact location is kept a close secret in order to protect it from the public. (An older specimen named Prometheus, which was more than 5,000 years old, was cut down by a U.S. Forest Service graduate student in 1964.) Today you can visit the grove where Methuselah hides, but you’ll have to guess at which tree it is. Could this one be it?
The world’s 10 oldest living trees

toscanoirriverente:

theconstantbuzz:

Nikita Khrushchev in front of the Lincoln Memorial.