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19 Dec, 3 tweets, 2 min read
At winter solstice, the shortest day of the year in the northern hemisphere, the sun shines down this 5,000 year old passage and hits the back wall. The Neolithic chambered mound lies about 500m off the Brittany coast, on the small island of Gavr'inis.
These beautifully carved stone slabs support a 17-tonne stone slab acting as the roof of the tomb. At the time of its construction, c. 3500 B.C., the island was still connected with the mainland, and is today only accessible by boat.

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Cairn De Gavrinis.
île de Gavrinis – Larmor-Baden.

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Archaeologists have unearthed the world’s oldest and most complete set of Roman body armour yet on a battlefield. The entire cuirass was found at Kalkriese in northwestern Germany 
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17 Sep
In honor of #RoshHashanah5781 I am sharing this shofar (ram’s horn), made in the forced labor camp Skarżysko-Kamienna (belonged to German HASAG concern), in southeastern Poland, during World War II.
c. 25,000-30,000 Jews were brought here and between 18,000-23,000 perished. Image
Rabbi Yitzhak Finkler, the Grand Rebbe of Radoszyce, asked Moshe Winterter, also an inmate in the camp, to make a shofar for the holy observance of Rosh Hashana in 1943 (5704). In spite of the danger to his own life, Moshe created one. Image
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Moshe Winterter (photo) survived the Holocaust. You can see his shofar at Yad Vashem in Jerusalem. He managed to keep the shofar with him, but when he was sent to Buchenwald, it was left behind Image
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30 Aug
A wildfire has broken out near the ruins of the bronze age stronghold of Mycenae in Greece, prompting the evacuation of visitors to the archaeological site.
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28 Aug
This exquisite mosaic, showing six female musicians, with two small boys dressed as cupids, on a wooden stage, once decorated the floor of an apsidal room of a Roman house at Mariamin, near Hama in Syria.
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The women dressed in tunics long mantles, decorated with clavus, stones or gold colored parts, perform with clappers, an organ, a double flute, metal sounding bows, a cithara and castanets.

At the Hama Museum in Syria.
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15 May
I'm fascinated with the shape and details of this ca. 4,200 year old dress, discovered in a tomb at Giza in Egypt. The beads were strung together on a net and were (probably) worn over a linen dress. Image
Although believed that ancient Egyptian women wore such dresses in daily life, most examples have been found in a burial context.
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To learn more about the use of beads to enhance the appearance of a garment.
R. Hall. 1982. Garments in the Petrie Museum of Egyptian Archaeology. Textile History, 131.
M. Jick. 1988. Bead-net dress. In Mummies and Magic (eds. S. D' Auria, P. Lacovara and C. Roehrig). Boston MFA
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