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11 Oct, 9 tweets, 3 min read

Before Alexander:
The Palace Walls of Darius I
Susa/Elam, Iran
c500 BCE

Before Alexander:
The Palace Walls of Darius I
Susa/Elam, Iran
c500 BCE

Before Alexander:
The Palace Walls of Darius I
Susa/Elam, Iran
c500 BCE

Before Alexander:
The Palace Walls of Darius I
Susa/Elam, Iran
c500 BCE

Before Alexander:
The Palace Walls of Darius I
Susa/Elam, Iran
c500 BCE

Before Alexander:
The Palace Walls of Darius I
Susa/Elam, Iran
c500 BCE

Before Alexander:
The Palace Walls of Darius I
Susa/Elam, Iran
c500 BCE

Before Alexander:
The Palace of Darius I
Susa/Elam, Iran
c500 BCE

Before Alexander:
The Palace Walls of Darius I
Susa/Elam, Iran
c500 BCE

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12 Oct

The Life of the Buddha:

Early Gandharan Stupa Narrative Panels 1st-3rdC CE
From the collection of the Humboldt Forum

1. The Birth of the Buddha

2. The Great Departure

3. Bidding Farewell to the horse & servant

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11 Oct

Faces of Ancient Afghanistan
100-500CE
from the collection of the Humboldt Forum

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100-500CE
from the collection of the Humboldt Forum

Faces of Ancient Afghanistan
100-500CE
from the collection of the Humboldt Forum

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9 Oct

The Bagram Ivories
Spectacular 1stC CE Sanchi-style carvings on ivory, originally probably part of a throne, found in the storeroom of a Kushan palace under the current Bagram airbase.

Scholars believe they were probably carved nearby by itinerant Indian craftsmen working for the Kushans.

Sanchi has an inscription referring to a donation by the ivory carvers of nearby Vidisha. This is quite possibly their work.

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9 Oct

Indian deities in Khmer form
Masterpieces of Cambodian sculpture 8th-11thC
Now in the Guimet

Indian deities in Khmer form
Masterpieces of Cambodian sculpture 8th-11thC
Now in the Guimet

Indian deities in Khmer form
Masterpieces of Cambodian sculpture 8th-11thC
Now in the Guimet

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8 Oct

Masterpieces from Hadda

6thC Gandharan Jallalabad brought to life in Buddhist terracottas and sculptures showing Indian, Greek, Roman and Chinese influence.

Excavated by DAFA in the 30's; now in the Guimet.

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7 Sep

My beautiful Anglo-Bengali great great grandmother, Sophia Pattle. She had quite a life: born in Chandernagar, educated in Versailles and married in Calcutta, she brought up her children in Little Holland House in Kensington, then a village outside London.

In Little Holland House she lived with her sister, Sarah, Sarah's husband Henry Prinsep, a Sanskritist who opposed Macaulay's Anglicising reforms & wrote the first English-language history of the Sikhs.

Also living in Little Holland House was the painter GM Watts, then known as 'England's Michelangelo' who came to lunch and stayed for 35 years.

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