Ancient Greek helmets from the classical period kept in the storeroom of the Archaeological Museum of Olympia in Greece. Via @historys_mysteries3.14
instagram.comAncient Greek helmets from the classical period kept in the storeroom of the Archaeological Museum of Olympia in Greece. Via @historys_mysteries3.14
Excavations of Swedish jewellers’ workshops have revealed caches of garnets, imported as raw material from India and Sri Lanka. Elephant ivory perhaps travelled along a similar path, either through the Persian Gulf and then overland on the caravan routes or via the Red Sea to the Mediterranean ports. Roman jewellery and glass, as well as Byzantine
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the Modern West has bred new strains of iconoclasm. It did, after all, give rise to the museum, which arguably attenuates images’ political force. Pivotal in this history was the transformation of the Louvre Palace into a museum for housing political and religious artifacts of the old regime as objects of formal value.8 Just so, the museum both pro
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