An Olmec Jadeite Mask from 900-500 BCE
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A Big Collection of Bog Bodies by Gabe Paoletti
In many cases, you’re staring at the face of someone who lived centuries ago. That was their hair, their nose, their eye-lashes, their sleep. Very few things are more fascinating than this.
An Annoyed, Shivering, Nude Woman with Large Lapis Lazuli Glasses
Carved by someone in Ancient Egypt between 3700–3500 BCE.
[…] most of them represent nude females with their feminine attributes emphasised by carving and careful drilling. With their slim figures, narrow waists and full hips they present an ideal of the female body that will change little over the course of Ancient Egyptian civilization. Their enduring concept of beauty also included a full head of hair (the bald ones may have had wigs) as well as large and alluring eyes.
White Statues
Vox on the history of plain-white Roman statues and how historians attempt plaster reconstructions with the original colors. Like this one:
