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Apr 6

The Antikythera mechanism. An ancient Greek hand-powered orrery, described as the oldest example of an analogue computer used to predict astronomical positions and eclipses decades in advance.
~150 BC to 70 BC, Greece
📍National Archaeological Museum, Athens/Greece

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"We've had to rethink the history of technology completely as a result of this single object"

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Apr 5

Entering an ancient Greek sanctuary what you would have seen? Dismantled body parts made of clay was undoubtedly something common and expected..heads, arms, legs, genitalia. Everything.
Small #Thread about this very interesting Greek practice
#Archaeology #Ancientgreeece

People in ancient Greece they’d go to temples/sanctuaries associated with a healing deity. Asclepius was the most important of those and his sanctuaries were the equivalent of our idea of a hospital or medical center.

"After Asclepius “cured” them in exchange for an offering or a fee, grateful supplicants dedicated votives in the shape of the body part he healed. It’s believed such carvings either commemorated successful healings or were requests to get him to pay attention to ailing limbs"

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Apr 4

The Byzantine mosaics of Hosios Loukas are some of the best available anywhere today for the character of a church interior in the first centuries after the end of Iconoclasm that had ravaged the Roman state (8th & 9th c.).
~Mosaic of Saint Paul, 11th c., Greece
#MosaicMonday

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Feb 12

An incredible artifact...
This device, consisting of a sundial and geared mechanical calendar, is the second oldest known of its kind. The earliest known example is the #AntikytheraMechanism.
It dates around 400-600 BCE, Byzantine Empire.

"16 locations are inscribed in Greek on the sundial plate, translated as: Constantinople, Syene, Thebaid, Africa, Alexandria, Antioch, Rhodes, Athens, Sicily, Thessalonika, Rome, Dalmatia, Doclea, Caesarea Sratonis, Palestine, and Ascalon."

"The owner of this device would have been able to use it as a sundial to tell the time in 16 locations across the ancient world and would have been able to predict the positions of the Sun and Moon in the zodiac and the lunar phases."

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Feb 12

The stadium of ancient Olympia.
It was the location of many of the sporting events at the Ancient Olympic Games and the Heraean games for women 🏃💨

Pausanias wrote for the female athletes: "their hair hangs down, a tunic reaches to a little above the knee, and they bare the right shoulder as far as the breast"

Pausanias also describes the Heraean Games as "archaia" (old/ancient). According to mythology the games were introduced by the wife of Pelops, the legendary Hippodameia.

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