It has a human mouth, a human chin and human ears, and the whole face is pretty flat
to me it's clearly a sphinx
[editline]d[/editline]
unless they're suggesting it was re-carved, as the first image implies?
doesn't make a lot of sense to me
[editline]d[/editline]
Also I thought an Anubis had a human body? That would mean they just made a giant jackal for some reason
[QUOTE=Alxnotorious;46670391]Maybe they built an Anubis statue, the thing fell apart, and so they reconfigured it as a sphinx?[/QUOTE]
that's a good theory. another scenario is that a pharaoh could have asked to make the statue to his liking, after all we all know those dudes were more eccentric than rockstars.
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[QUOTE=Winstonn;46670514]It has a human mouth, a human chin and human ears, and the whole face is pretty flat
to me it's clearly a sphinx
[editline]d[/editline]
unless they're suggesting it was re-carved, as the first image implies?
doesn't make a lot of sense to me
[editline]d[/editline]
Also I thought an Anubis had a human body? That would mean they just made a giant jackal for some reason[/QUOTE]
the egyptian gods were very commonly depicted in entire animal forms. see this:
[URL]http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anubis_Shrine[/URL]
or here, where horus is a huge bird:
[URL]http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Temple_of_Edfu#mediaviewer/File:GD-EG-Edfou015.JPG[/URL]
there are many other examples but you should get the catch.
also yes the theory is that the sphinx was originally built as a statue of anubis, but changed into a sphinx afterwards. as alxnotorious pointed out, this could have been done because of deterioration of the original statue. one of the key factors presented by this theory is that the head of the sphinx is terribly disproportionate to its body (and everyone knows the egyptians had a tight relation with body proportion & fidelity to representation because of their religious beliefs).
[QUOTE=booster;46667061][img]http://th05.deviantart.net/fs70/PRE/f/2014/244/f/7/the_streets___chapter_3___by_danluvisiart-d7xlvfk.jpg[/img]
[img]http://th00.deviantart.net/fs71/PRE/f/2014/247/c/c/the_streets___chapter_4___the_gigglers_by_danluvisiart-d7xydj7.png[/img][/QUOTE]
These images, plus the other ones by the same artist make me want a GTA game with this Sesame Street-esque art style.
there are many cool things to be read about the egyptians and their ancient marvels. the great pyramids for example. they were surfaced with white limestone and had a golden tip. they used to look like this:
[IMG]http://www.carlsguides.com/strategy/civilization5/pic/worldwonders/portraits/pyramids.gif[/IMG]
[IMG]http://unmuseum.mus.pa.us/giza_complex.jpg[/IMG]
here's a cool diagram that shows how the casing stones were assembled into the pyramids:
[IMG]http://www.ancientegypt.co.uk/pyramids/story/images/pyramid.jpg[/IMG]
it's a known fact that the white finish wore off after multiple earthquakes, throughout thousands of years. however, some of the casing stones still stand:
[IMG]http://members.ozemail.com.au/~googong/casing.jpg[/IMG]
the smaller pyramids got to preserve most of their white limestone:
[t]http://i.imgur.com/kEQi6XW.jpg[/t]
i guess the coolest thing about the egyptians is that they were at their apex 5000 years ago. five thousand years. to put this in perspective, [U]the romans were chronologically as far away from ancient egypt as they are from us.[/U] and this is crazy.
[quote]This Week in Spaceflight[/quote]
[IMG]http://i.imgur.com/nZdLe9K.gif[/IMG]
3 Dec Hayabusa 2
5 Dec Orion EFT-1
6 Dec DirecTV14/GSAT16
7 Dec CBERS-4
[QUOTE=SeneorGoat;46670654]These images, plus the other ones by the same artist make me want a GTA game with this Sesame Street-esque art style.[/QUOTE]
"One shot dead, ha ha ha!"
"Two shot dead, ha ha ha!"
"Three shot dead, [B]ha ha ha![/B]"
Speaking of anubis, here's some basque mythology:
[t]http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/35/Laminak-Pont.jpg/640px-Laminak-Pont.jpg[/t]
[QUOTE]Lamiak or laminak, a type of nymph with bird-feet that dwelt in rivers and springs.
They are very beautiful, and stay at the shore combing their long hair with a golden comb; they easily charm men. They have duck feet.
In coastal areas, some believed that there were itsaslamiak in the sea, who had fish tails - a kind of mermaid.
Lamiak help those who give them presents by providing them with help at work; if a farmer left them food at the river shore, they would eat it at night and in exchange would finish a field he had left unploughed. In some places, bridges were believed to have been built by lamiak: Ebrain (Bidarray, Lower Navarre), Azalain (Andoain, Gipuzkoa), Urkulu (Leintz-Gatzaga, Gipuzkoa), Liginaga-Astüe, (Labourd) bridges were built at night.[/QUOTE]
[t]http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/cc/Tartaloren_irudikapena.jpg/640px-Tartaloren_irudikapena.jpg[/t]
[QUOTE]Tartalo: the Basque version of the Greco-Roman Cyclops.[/QUOTE]
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If laminaks would exist they would be really cool to hang around
[QUOTE] People believed that laminas had left a river if a stone of the bridge was missing. Most lamias disappeared when men built small churches in the forest.
A lamina is at the other side of the rainbow combing her hair. When the sun lights her hair, the rainbow opens.
In some places male lamias also exist; they are strong and have built [URL="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dolmen"]dolmens[/URL] at night. Sometimes they can enter a house when its inhabitants are sleeping.[/QUOTE]
[QUOTE=PC_Paul;46670786][IMG]http://i.imgur.com/nZdLe9K.gif[/IMG]
3 Dec Hayabusa 2
5 Dec Orion EFT-1
6 Dec DirecTV14/GSAT16
7 Dec CBERS-4[/QUOTE]
Best part - they're all from different countries, and use a different design.
Hayabusa 2 launched on a Japanese H-IIA, which uses a LH2+LOX staged-combustion engine with solid boosters, a perfectly reasonable design. Very hard to do right, but the Japanese seem to have done a great job with it.
Orion launched on an American Delta IV Heavy, which uses a trio of LH2+LOX staged-combustion engines, no boosters (the normal Delta IV uses one of those engines plus SRBs). It's a lazy way to make a heavy rocket, but I guess it works. Pure LH2 on the first stage is still a dumb idea though.
DirecTV14/GSAT16 were on a European Ariane 5, which uses a LH2+LOX gas-generator engine, with solid boosters. I'm not really sure why they combined the two - the gas-generator cycle is used for simple engines that don't need much efficiency, while LH2 gives you a ton of headaches, engineering problems and cost to get more high-altitude efficiency. I think it might be the only LH2 gas-gen engine - normally you see LH2 staged-combustion and RP1 gas-generator. I guess they wanted the reliability, maybe?
CBERS-4 was on a Chinese Long March, which runs UDMH+N2O4 on what I'm guessing is a gas-generator cycle (saying "staged combustion of nitrous oxide and hydrazine" is a good way to give a rocket engineer a heart attack). That and, from the fuel alone, you can tell it's derived from a weapon system, because no civilian would ever use those fuels willingly (at least in the first stage). But hey, at least you aren't going to have ignition problems.
and speaking of pyramids:
[t]http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/f/fe/Pyramidion_of_the_Pyramid_of_Amenemhet_III_at_Dahshur.jpg[/t]
[t]http://i.imgur.com/b6tOeu0.jpg[/t]
[QUOTE]
Green serpentine mask found at the base of Pyramid of the Sun, ca 50 A.D., Teotihuacán, Mexico[/QUOTE]
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[t]http://i.imgur.com/beiSmu0.jpg[/t]
[QUOTE]
Bison sculpted from mammoth ivory. Found at Zaraysk, Russia. About 20,000 years old[/QUOTE]
[t]http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/9/94/Crusader_Graffiti_in_the_Church_of_the_holy_supulchure_Jerusalem_Victor_2011_-1-21.jpg[/t]
[QUOTE]
Crusaders graffiti in the Church of the Holy Sepulchre. 11-13th century AD. Israel[/QUOTE]
[QUOTE=MenteR;46670749]there are many cool things to be read about the egyptians and their ancient marvels. the great pyramids for example. they were surfaced with white limestone and had a golden tip. they used to look like this:
picture
picture
here's a cool diagram that shows how the casing stones were assembled into the pyramids:
picture
it's a known fact that the white finish wore off after multiple earthquakes, throughout thousands of years. however, some of the casing stones still stand:
picture
the smaller pyramids got to preserve most of their white limestone:
picture
i guess the coolest thing about the egyptians is that they were at their apex 5000 years ago. five thousand years. to put this in perspective, [U]the romans were chronologically as far away from ancient egypt as they are from us.[/U] and this is crazy.[/QUOTE]
Such a damn shame we don't know more about bronze age civilizations.
[t]https://farm3.staticflickr.com/2183/2215540532_dc6bbd0642_o.jpg[/t]
[QUOTE]Mycenaean bronze and gold sword, 16th-century BC[/QUOTE]
[t]http://i.imgur.com/dA2amVz.jpg[/t]
[QUOTE]
Eros (god of love) riding a dolphin. House of the Dolphins. Delos, Greece. 1st-2nd cent BCE. [/QUOTE]
[t]http://i.imgur.com/J6VwDxv.jpg[/t]
[QUOTE]
Axe with intact shaft uncovered at Rødbyhavn, Denmark. Dates to the Stone Age, about 5,500 years ago.[/QUOTE]
[t]http://i.imgur.com/qVlCNTA.jpg[/t]
[QUOTE]
Still-functioning roman lead pipes in Bath, England. 1st-2nd century AD[/QUOTE]
[t]https://farm8.staticflickr.com/7457/9618142634_783ff65882_k.jpg[/t]
[QUOTE]Gladiator's helmet[/QUOTE]
[t]http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/8/80/Hagia-sofia-viking.jpg[/t]
[QUOTE]
Viking's graffiti made in Hagia Sofia, Instanbul, Turkey in 10th century AD.[/QUOTE]
That's the most interesting pictures I've seen in a long time, thank you.
[QUOTE=Alxnotorious;46670391]Maybe they built an Anubis statue, the thing fell apart, and so they reconfigured it as a sphinx?[/QUOTE]
This actually seems like it'd be very likely considering how much of the face would be essentially free floating looking at the pic MenteR posted.
[QUOTE=Winstonn;46670514]unless they're suggesting it was re-carved, as the first image implies?
doesn't make a lot of sense to me[/QUOTE]
Why? One of the most common theories about the Sphinx is that the face was changed at some point.
[QUOTE=godfatherk;46671471][t]https://farm3.staticflickr.com/2183/2215540532_dc6bbd0642_o.jpg[/t]
[/QUOTE]
whoever owned this was clearly a baller
[QUOTE=godfatherk;46671471]
[t]http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/8/80/Hagia-sofia-viking.jpg[/t][/QUOTE]
I've always found this sort of thing fascinating. Who was Halvdan? What was his life like? What were his family and friends like? We talk about these old societies like they're all one homogeneous group a lot of the time, but they were all individual people with their own names, experiences, joys, pains, and lives. Maybe this just feels like me stating the obvious, but seeing the name of one of these ancient men makes me very thoughtful.
[QUOTE=Starlight 456;46673232]I've always found this sort of thing fascinating. Who was Halvdan? What was his life like? What were his family and friends like? We talk about these old societies like they're all one homogeneous group a lot of the time, but they were all individual people with their own names, experiences, joys, pains, and lives. Maybe this just feels like me stating the obvious, but seeing the name of one of these ancient men makes me very thoughtful.[/QUOTE]
Reminds me of ancient graffiti found in Pompeii.
[url]http://www.pompeiana.org/resources/ancient/graffiti%20from%20pompeii.htm[/url]
I.2.20 (Bar/Brothel of Innulus and Papilio); 3932: [B]Weep, you girls. My penis has given you up. Now it penetrates men’s behinds. Goodbye, wondrous femininity![/B]
I.10.2-3 (Bar of Prima); 8258, 8259: The story of Successus, Severus and Iris is played out on the walls of a bar: [Severus]: “[B]Successus, a weaver, loves the innkeeper’s slave girl named Iris. She, however, does not love him. Still, he begs her to have pity on him. His rival wrote this. Goodbye.[/B]”. [Answer by Successus]: “[B]Envious one, why do you get in the way. Submit to a handsomer man and one who is being treated very wrongly and good looking.[/B]” [Answer by Severus]: “[B]I have spoken. I have written all there is to say. You love Iris, but she does not love you.[/B]”
"I'm a nice guy, why doesn't she like me!?" - turns out it's not a new thing by any meaning :v:
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II.2.3 (Bar of Athictus; right of the door); 8442: [B]I screwed the barmaid[/B]
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II.7 (gladiator barracks); 8792: [B]On April 19th, I made bread[/B]
What a madman.
[QUOTE=MenteR;46670749]there are many cool things to be read about the egyptians and their ancient marvels. the great pyramids for example. they were surfaced with white limestone and had a golden tip. they used to look like this:
[IMG]http://www.carlsguides.com/strategy/civilization5/pic/worldwonders/portraits/pyramids.gif[/IMG]
[IMG]http://unmuseum.mus.pa.us/giza_complex.jpg[/IMG]
here's a cool diagram that shows how the casing stones were assembled into the pyramids:
[IMG]http://www.ancientegypt.co.uk/pyramids/story/images/pyramid.jpg[/IMG]
it's a known fact that the white finish wore off after multiple earthquakes, throughout thousands of years. however, some of the casing stones still stand:
[IMG]http://members.ozemail.com.au/~googong/casing.jpg[/IMG]
the smaller pyramids got to preserve most of their white limestone:
[t]http://i.imgur.com/kEQi6XW.jpg[/t]
i guess the coolest thing about the egyptians is that they were at their apex 5000 years ago. five thousand years. to put this in perspective, [U]the romans were chronologically as far away from ancient egypt as they are from us.[/U] and this is crazy.[/QUOTE]
Never knew that, thanks.
[i]Mecca in 1951. Note the Kaaba in the square.[/i]
[t]http://media2.policymic.com/aa7ab90dbc70349c60b63efad27d914b.jpg[/t]
[i]Mecca today. That black speck in the middle of the square is also the Kaaba.[/i]
[t]http://media2.policymic.com/f61f1e807c21c39867b544eb55afe83e.jpg[/t]
That fucking clocktower dominates the landscape. It's really hard to grasp how massive it is. 601 meters. That's over 50 meters taller than the CN tower.
[t]http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/d/d4/AbrajAlBaitin2011Makkah.JPG[/t]
[QUOTE=Spor;46673852]
II.7 (gladiator barracks); 8792: [B]On April 19th, I made bread[/B]
What a madman.[/QUOTE]
Prior to writing, the man thought, "Let me write something about human nature that stand the test of time on these very walls"
:v:
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[QUOTE=Starlight 456;46673232]I've always found this sort of thing fascinating. Who was Halvdan? What was his life like? What were his family and friends like? We talk about these old societies like they're all one homogeneous group a lot of the time, but they were all individual people with their own names, experiences, joys, pains, and lives. Maybe this just feels like me stating the obvious, but seeing the name of one of these ancient men makes me very thoughtful.[/QUOTE]
Given that he's a Norseman in Istanbul, his life at the very least was adventurous, with travelling all that way.
[QUOTE=MenteR;46670749][t]http://i.imgur.com/kEQi6XW.jpg[/t][/QUOTE]
I like this pyramid, they started building it at the wrong angle so they had to change half way up
[QUOTE=pentium;46674215][i]Mecca in 1951. Note the Kaaba in the square.[/i]
[t]http://media2.policymic.com/aa7ab90dbc70349c60b63efad27d914b.jpg[/t]
[i]Mecca today. That black speck in the middle of the square is also the Kaaba.[/i]
[t]http://media2.policymic.com/f61f1e807c21c39867b544eb55afe83e.jpg[/t]
That fucking clocktower dominates the landscape. It's really hard to grasp how massive it is. 601 meters. That's over 50 meters taller than the CN tower.
[t]http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/d/d4/AbrajAlBaitin2011Makkah.JPG[/t][/QUOTE]
And all those historic buildings they razed to build said clocktower.
Every time I've seen that clocktower I can't fathom it's size.
Like it's dimensions are so weird, it looks like a 80m clocktower.
[QUOTE=Spor;46673852]
II.7 (gladiator barracks); 8792: [B]On April 19th, I made bread[/B]
What a madman.[/QUOTE]
Maybe it was his first time making bread successfully?
First time I saw that clock tower I thought it was some engineers crazy rendering of a concept that will never happen.
then I found out it already exists
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I'd honestly like to visit Mecca/Saudi Arabia even though I think it's illegal because of my nationality/religious belief. I want to visit the Saudi portion of the Red Sea.
[QUOTE=Spor;46673852]
[url]http://www.pompeiana.org/resources/ancient/graffiti%20from%20pompeii.htm[/url]
[/QUOTE]
this is awesome:
VIII.2 (in the basilica); 1811: [b]A small problem gets larger if you ignore it.[/b]
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[QUOTE=booster;46676121]Every time I've seen that clocktower I can't fathom it's size.
Like it's dimensions are so weird, it looks like a 80m clocktower.[/QUOTE]
so you like shit that looks disproportionately huge?
[img]https://38.media.tumblr.com/6e9cc2b49973cb250fa4dcb5f45e927b/tumblr_nanw5jWG6l1rdredko1_r1_1280.jpg[/img]
this is a 3200 year old tree named "the president". it lives in the sequoia national park, in cali.
[t]http://cdn.theatlantic.com/static/infocus/yip120814/s_y37_39783669.jpg[/t]
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[t]http://i.imgur.com/xgZD7lo.gif[/t]
[QUOTE=godfatherk;46677439]
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[t]http://i.imgur.com/xgZD7lo.gif[/t][/QUOTE]
This reminds me, how do I make gifs less shitty?
[t]http://i.imgur.com/3nUKliL.gif[/t]
I'm not sure how to stabilize it, and loop it properly.
Frenchman holding a Eagle-Owl
[img]http://www.independent.co.uk/incoming/article9579428.ece/alternates/w1024/051_owltrench.jpg[/img]
WWI
[QUOTE=Emperor Scorpious II;46674584]Prior to writing, the man thought, "Let me write something about human nature that stand the test of time on these very walls"
:v:
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Given that he's a Norseman in Istanbul, his life at the very least was adventurous, with travelling all that way.[/QUOTE]
Would've been called Constantinople back in the 9th century.
My guess is on Varangian mercenary.
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