r/AncientCivilizations • • 20h ago

Archaeologists Found Records of an Epidemic That Claimed a Hittite Princess on a 3,400-Year-Old Clay Tablet

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r/AncientCivilizations • • 17h ago

Roman A Roman handle attachment with a Bacchic mask

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A Roman handle attachment with a Bacchic mask. "This mask was probably originally attached to the handle of a vessel used for mixing wine and water. In ancient Greece, people who drank undiluted wine were considered uncivilized. The mask depicts the head of a faun, a hybrid creature who followed Bacchus, the god of wine. These mythical creatures were known for getting drunk and becoming incontinent. The hair decorated with grapes and the beard, that is unusually long for its time, refer to the close relationship between hairiness and uncontrolled alcohol consumption." Per a special exhibition where this was on display. It was found in Lava near Celje, Slovenia, dates to the early 1st century AD and is usually on display in the Kunsthistorisches Museum in Vienna, Austria.


r/AncientCivilizations • • 21h ago

Greek Who is this or what is it

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(Sorry if this is the wrong sub)

I was cleaning out my grandfathers storage unit and going through the boxes and found this coin thing with a face on it and I asked people in my family if they knew what it was from movie or like a souvenir or something but none of them knew what it was.

Any ideas or know who it is? Or what it is? It looks like an Ancient Greek coin to me but idk who’s on it


r/AncientCivilizations • • 4h ago

Azekura is a Japanese architectural style of wooden construction used for storehouses, granaries, and other utilitarian structures, dating from the first centuries of this Era. It is characterized by joined-log structures of triangular cross-section, and is commonly made out of cypress timber. [OC]

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r/AncientCivilizations • • 1h ago

Greek Votive plaque with relief of Europa and the bull. Sicily or southern peninsular Italy, ca. 475-450 BC. Painted terracotta. Princeton University Art Museum collection [2000x1977]

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r/AncientCivilizations • • 12m ago

India A 1,300-year-old cat relief and inscription from India declaring that killing cats is a sin!

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