Stone cooking supports used to grill skewers of meat by Minoans on Santorini, circa 3600 years old. The line of holes in the base supplied coals with oxygen. Many consider modern "souvlaki" street kebabs a direct descendant of this portable food system. Museum of Prehistoric Thera, Greece. More: https://thetravelbible.com/museum-of-artifacts/
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~ Circus cup decorated with flowers and birds
Place of origin: Varpelev, Denmark
Period: Roman
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Bronze hand used in the worship of Sabazios. Hands decorated with religious symbols were designed to stand in sanctuaries or, like this one, were attached to poles for processional use.
Date: Roman 1st–2nd century AD.
Collection: British Museum.
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Roman period Head of Apollo
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Owen Wilson AKA chaotic gay southern middle-aged man just trying to score dammit.
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Mold-blown glass flask with janiform decoration
Roman, 1st century A.D.
J. Paul Getty Museum
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This is about Night at the Museum btw 💀
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Dionysos
Hadrian's Villa, Tivoli
2nd century CE
Medelhavsmuseet, Stockholm
Stockholm, November 2023
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An 18th century CE ivory dildo complete with contrivance for simulating ejaculation and its own discreet cloth bag. The didlo was hidden in the seat of a Louis XV armchair found in a convent near Paris. Now housed at the Science Museum in London
More: https://thetravelbible.com/mysterious-archaeological-finds/
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~ Pair of Architectural Reliefs with Elephants.
Date: A.D. 80–100
Culture: Roman
Place of origin: Western Roman Empire
Medium: Italian marble
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