#ancient cities

[metanoias-substack]

When you think of ancient Greece or the Roman Empire, visions of white togas, ivory temples and sand-coloured amphitheatres likely come to mind.

If so, you might be in for a surprise.

Because this off-white and eggshell-dominated palette, which inspired the pristine surfaces of Renaissance sculptures and the blank facades of Neoclassical buildings, is… a lie.

We now know the ancient world was steeped in colour. It was, perhaps, a tad too colourful for our modern sensibilities — even borderline garish at times.

Click here to learn why generations of scholars and artists believed in a monochrome Classical Antiquity and see historically accurate reconstructions of ancient statues and buildings in all their glorious peacockery.

#art #ancient art #ancient greece #ancient rome #ancient history #ancientmonuments #ancient cities #ancient civilizations #ancient sculpture #roman empire #roman art #art history #history #archeology #archaeology #colors #colours #colour #italy #greece #greek mythology #roman mythology #ancient greek #rome #rome italy #histoire #historic

[mumblesplash]

sure sculk LOOKS like cold slimy cave fungus but i think it would be more unsettling if it was soft and warm, especially near the catalysts. it wants you feel safe, it wants you to stay

#mumbling #TIME FOR 11PM SCULK THOUGHTS WOOO #just sittin here. thinkin about the ancient cities. again #you know me #but yeah what if it’s comfy #have we considered this #in its dormant state it would Very much benefit from being the kind of place where wounded animals want to die #i do think it’s still kinda slimy though #bc it’s supposed to be underwater #minecraft #sculk #ancient cities

[archaeologs]

Palmyra. Temple of Baal. Main entrance showing engaged fluted columns.

Learn more / Daha fazlası https://www.archaeologs.com/w/palmyra/

#archaeologs #archaeology #archaeological #history #dictionary #architecture #palmyra #syria #mediterranean #ancient cities #temple of baal #columns #arkeoloji #tarih #sanat #palmira #akdeniz #suriye

[sentientcitysmackdown]

ROUND 2, MATCHUP 8

[ID: An image of an Ancient City from Minecraft, the letters "VS.", and the Chicago Firefighters logo, which is the fire emoji on a red circle. End ID.]

For our final matchup of Round 2, we have two very different cities! Ancient Cities are strange, ancient, blocky, and inhabited by a sentient fungus-like thingy known as shulk (I'm not super up to date on Minecraft lore, I might be wrong, sorry.) Chicago is strange, modern-ish, windy, and inhabited by a variety of living beings, all of whom are From Chicago from the moment they set foot in Chicago, and who collectively make up all that is Chicago, which is personified in Mx. Chicago. Chicago also has a complex relationship with fire. And it's from Blaseball! (That clarification is needed because--aside from Fallen London--it's the only city with a real-life counterpart left in the competition.)

Please remember: There are no bad cities, only bad citizens! Keep trash-talk to a minimum! Despite the name, this is for fun, not fighting.

#ancient cities #chicago #blaseball #chicago firefighters #minecraft #round 2 #sentient city smackdown

[gemsofgreece]

Cool list!

#greece #ancient greece #europe #ancient cities #places #facts #history facts #greek history #link #greek facts

[finalfantasytrivia]

Samarkand

Zanarkand (top image) was originally meant to be called “Registan”, which was an important part of the ancient city of Samarkand (bottom image), located in present-day Uzbekistan. It was later decided to be named after Samarkand itself, but with slight alteration. The city was a wealthy trading center.

Info and image source:

#square enix #squaresoft #gaming #final fantasy x #final fantasy 10 #ffx #ff10 #zanarkand #samarkand #registan #uzbekistan #video game trivia #video game #video game design #ancient architecture #ancient cities

[nudeartpluspoetry]

Ephesus, Turkey

#ephesus #ancient cities

[autumn-oceanopromises]

(994) ancient cities

there are so many me's that i've forgotten sunken ancient soul cities underneath the jungle-stress of worrying thick thorn vines dug into every alveoli choking on my own shortness of breaths the ashes left behind, a personal pompeii the burning rainfall preserving, a forgotten tears burning dry into blepharitous oil my head pounds and my mind fogs venom-trapped behind my eyes which are failing a part of my past, all these automatons pushing the risks to the future which is now --threw the knucklebones and flipped the denarii, riches for charon, i'm paying the built up debts in compound interest inwards, this beautiful melancholy - a faintest taste of lethe under my tongue otherwise erased by ashes and time and looking forward forgetting the anguished corpses lamenting i left behind husks of my former selves all looking forward always looking forward into a future that i live today still crystallized into work-ettiquette-coffin-columbariums - work, home, work, home, dreaming of volcano heat in the cold night and the quiet night in the scalding day - so ungrateful. im so grateful i get to breathe, to live, to be go anywhere, spend on what i like, work hard and burn out like the candle. poof. how many worlds left i spent near-a-decade running faster and faster to stop from drowning in place so how does it feel so stiff every time i pick up another weight? my knees ache and my airway is clogged my lungs are small garbage bags i want to cry but i can't breathe anymore, i'm struggling to get enough air, i finally want to live but i'm paying off the death i rolled when i was despairing i made it, i want to tell my fifteen year old self - i want to tell you - i want to tell me how much do i have to relive and how much allowance do i have to move on and move forward lying in bed with the heat pressing in at least i can breathe when i sleep in the quiet it's drizzling ash it will fill me up with all of it i want to see the dawn

#spilled ink #poetry #staygolden #writerscreed #ancient cities #oh no the consequences of my own actions #smoking

[1332knitweardesignhouse]

27March2024

Hello! How are you? I'm not too bad. Lol. Hope your day/afternoon/evening has been the bees knees and just keeps getting better! If it has been a little, well, craptastic, know that I am sending you hugs and the hope that it gets better....((HUGS))

Finally got the next to the last part of the Cary started! After this, I have to sew it together and do the finish work. But, I am sooooo looking forwards to getting it finished. Sadly, though, I am playing yarn chicken with this stripe, so I may not get very far today. But, I have told the nameless one to stop and grab me the required color to finish the sleeve.

In a very good turn of events, I was able to camp out in my easy chair yesterday with a playlist of ancient peoples docs. The hooligans weren't happy, but they got over it. However, today, Mom has been relegated to the desk, so it looks like Ancient Cities and gaming while I knit, while they indulge in PBS Kids.

Anyway, hope you are well!

Much Love!

Huge Hugs!

Happy Knitting!

Ana

#1332 knit #1332knitweardesignhouse.com #1332 original pattern #knitting #knitwear #ancient cities #ancient cities game #knitblr

[matcha-mix]

So we all agree that the warden and ancient cities are connected some way to soul fire right?

#minecraft headcanon #mineblr #dream smp #minecraft worldbuilding #ancient city #ancient cities #warden #minecraft sculk #like what if the people of the past used to live in ancient cities but then moved to the nether because of the warden bringing soul fire #idk #like headcannon soulfire and all the soul stuff is not native to the nether #minecraft

[convexicalcrow]

(source one) (source two)

oooo Spook Me art prompts let's go :D

I reckon I can do something awesome with both of those tbh. skulk vex Cub, ORRRRR SPIRITS OF THE DECKED OUT DUNGEON MAYBE?????, ancient city destruction, OR WHAT ABOUT THE BLACK MINES WHAT IF I DID BLACK MINES LORE OR

#hermitcraft #fanfic #spook me halloween ficathon #decked out 2 #cubfan135 #skulk cub #vex cub #ancient cities #minecraft lore #i'm gonna have so much fun with these >:D #woe horror fic tiem be upon ye

[mumblesplash]

*in a reporter voice* Topsy Mumblesplash, World's Leading Expert on the Deep Dark, what thoughts do you have on the fact that villages frequently spawn over/beside/falling into cave entrances in relation to your knowledge of the Deep Dark? I randomly thought about it two seconds too long and was interested to see what you might have to say on the matte

oh i didn’t actually know they did that!

i have to admit i don’t exactly have thoughts on the spawning locations of *villages* in relation to the deep dark. i do however have thoughts about woodland mansions, those thoughts being mainly that i think the frequency with which deep darks spawn under dark forests is related in some way to the pillagers’ later discovery and investigation of the ancient cities. (as evidenced by things such as their hallmark building style appearing sporadically throughout the cities in apparent attempts to repair parts of them, and the identically colored piles of wool that can be found in both mansions and ancient city camps)

now *personally* as i’ve mentioned in other posts i’m a bit annoyed about the evidence of the pillagers’ presence in the cities. partly because they could have taken things from the chests, meaning the mystery of why there are zero weapons in the loot chests has an obvious and somewhat boring answer, and partly because the slow decline implied by the varying quality of the city’s repairs is so much more horrifying if you assume they were all done by the original citizens and the wool in the camps was scavenged from dead people’s clothes for more soundproofing materials.

in any case, i think the ancient cities were empty ruins for a long, long time before any villagers OR pillagers could have possibly found them. also i haven’t given it much thought atp but i am definitely interested by the possibility that the pillagers who found the cities weren’t pillagers before they went down there

#the sculk told them to do unethical experiments on their fellow man #the lack of sun is why their skin looks like that #you see the vision #splashasks #amaraudermind #minecraft #ancient cities

[archaeologs]

The Oval Forum of Gerasa (Jerash). Illustration by Joseph Ramon Casals. Learn more / Daha fazlası https://www.archaeologs.com/w/gerasa/

#archaeologs #archaeology #archaeological #history #dictionary #gerasa #jerash #jordan #ancient cities #oval forum #forum of jerash #illustration #roman architecture #arkeoloji #tarih #sanat #antik kentler

[jlb1982]

Nan Madol was the ceremonial and political seat of the Saudeleur Dynasty, which united Pohnpei's estimated population of 25,000 people until about 1628.[3] Set apart between the main island of Pohnpei and Temwen Island, it was a scene of human activity as early as the first or second century AD. By the 8th or 9th century, islet construction had started, with construction of the distinctive megalithic architecture beginning 1180–1200 AD.[13]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nan_Madol

#nan madol #polynesia #ancient cities #history #map

[sentientcitysmackdown]

ROUND 1, MATCHUP 15

[ID: A map of an Ancient City from Minecraft and the cover of the video game Sid Meier's Alpha Centauri, with the letters "VS." between them. End ID.]

We're in the home stretch now, folks! Ancient Cities: Ancient, mysterious, spooky, Minecraft, and inhabited by the fungus-like growth of shulk, which is what lends it that sentient bit! The Self-Aware Colony from the rather confusingly named Sid Meier's Alpha Centauri: Well, I mean, it's....it's in the name. It's right there in the name. It's also spooky, I think!

#ancient cities #minecraft #self-aware colony #sid meier's alpha centauri #sentient city smackdown #round 1

[illwilledomen]

Me listening to Ancestry by Lena Raine:

#lena > c418 btw u can’t change my mind #minecraft #mineblr #shitpost #warden #ancient cities #1.19