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allthingseurope · 2 months

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Tallinn, Estonia (by Julia)

#tallinn #estonia #europe #travel #travel blog #vertical #architecture #old town #baltics

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leeenuu · 8 months

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#fck it this is my new pinned #baltics #estonia #latvia #lithuania #basically r*ssians are pissed that they cannot enter into our countries with their cars #and one girlie went further and qrt our minister of foreign affairs #whining abt how we are hurting regular r*ssians and not ppl close to putin #and she brought our pm’s husband into the mess as well #we can take care of our shameful scandals ok?#we dont need ur fckn input #shut tf up #u aint doing shit in ur own country #and now u come lecture us how we should run our country #get fucked

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mapsontheweb · 6 months

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Languages in the Baltics 🇪🇪🇱🇻🇱🇹

by geomapas.gr

#maps #geomapas.gr #igsourced #baltics #languages

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unhonestlymirror · 4 days

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Rūdolfs Priede "Senču Cīņa" ("Battle of the Ancestors") from the collection funds of the Liepāja Museum

#Latvia #Latvian art #whimsipagan #baltic #baltics #paganism #pagan #idk what leaves me speechless more: the cat hat or the metal tiddies

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flagwars · 2 months

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Flag Wars Bonus Round

#polls #flags #vexillology #flag wars #estonia #latvia #lithuania #baltics #baltic states

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soracities · 2 years

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August 2nd. Something wants to be said but the words don't agree.

Tomas Tranströmer, from “Baltics”, The Great Enigma: New Collected Poems (trans. Robin Fulton)

#q #lit #quotes #august #tomas tranströmer #baltics #the great enigma #die grenzen meiner sprache--die grenzen meiner welt #the book #reading #swedish lit #m #x

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songs-of-the-east · 7 months

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Folk Costumes from Aukštaitija in North-East Lithuania

#Lithuania #Baltics #Baltic #Lithuanian #Lietuvos

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peashooter85 · 2 years

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The Grottarossa Mummy and International Trade in Ancient Rome

On February 5th, 1964 a group of workmen where working on a construction job in Grottarossa, which is located in the outskirts of Rome. The men had loaded a haul of rubble into a dump truck with an excavator, but while unloading had noticed something unusual, an intricately carved marble sarcophagus which contained a small mummified corpse. As happens often in Italy, the construction workers had made an extremely important archaeological discovery.

Only two mummies from the ancient Roman period have ever been discovered in Rome itself. The ancient Romans were not big on the burial of bodies until after the rise of Christianity (cremation was popular) and mummification was not widely practiced outside of Egypt. The mummy was of an eight year old girl who had died in the 2nd century AD, most likely due to pulmonary fibrosis, although she also suffered from infections and malnutrition. Obviously, she was a very sick child before her death. Her body had been wrapped in linen coated with a resin which may have contributed to the preservation of her corpse. What is most interesting, at least to me, were the grave goods that were found on her. She was dressed in a fine silk dress, the silk coming from China. She had a doll made from ivory, the ivory most likely originating from Africa, various items made from Baltic amber, and a sapphire necklace, the sapphires coming from Sri Lanka.

Obviously the family of the girl was fairly wealthy to be able to afford an assortment of goods which came from all over the known world, not to mention the marble sarcophagus. More importantly the Grottarossa mummy shows how international trade was a vibrant and thriving aspect of life in ancient times as so many items from far flung places was found belonging to one single little Roman girl.