I hit 3,000-year-old art with a hammer
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I hit 3,000-year-old art with a hammer
Hunter-gatherers made these handprints about 9,000 years ago in the ‘Hands Cave’, in Argentina. It looks as if these long-dead hands are reaching towards us from within the rock. This is one of the most moving relics of the ancient forager world – but nobody knows what it means.
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History of the World in 1,000 Objects
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A Sculpture Gallery in Rome at the Time of Augustus, 1867…
This painting is a painting of time travel. Made in 1867, it depicts an Ancient Roman sculpture gallery during the time of Augustus; the weird thing to me is how the central statue-the Roman God, Vulcan-seems so three-dimensional. He's made of bronze, but his lighting is hyper-realistic, an
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Humans making fake cave art to save real cave art may feel like Peak Anthropocene absurdity, but I confess I find it overwhelmingly hopeful that four kids and a dog named Robot discovered a cave containing seventeen-thousand-year-old handprints, that the two teenagers who could stay devoted themselves to the cave’s protection, and that when humans
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