Ancient Buddha Statue Emerges In E. China Reservoir

NGC 7129

Ивтересно

PEOPLE OF THE ANCIENT WORLD: Lucius Verus (Marcus Aurelius’ Co-Emperor) 

LUCIUS Verus (161-169 CE) was Marcus Aurelius’ adopted brother and co-emperor, a man whose time on the throne is overshadowed by the reign of the last of the Five Good Emperors.

 In the final years of the Pax Romana, a period of almost two centuries of relative peace and stability following the rule of Augustus, a young Stoic philosopher, Marcus Aurelius, came to the throne in 161 CE, and for the first time in the empire’s short history he chose to have someone rule at his side; his adopted brother Lucius Verus.

The future emperor Lucius Ceionius Commodus was born in 130 CE and raised in Rome, the eldest son of the one-time consul Lucius Aelius Caesar.

Read More 

Article by Donald L. Wasson on AHE

Rue Mosnier decorated with Flags by Edouard Manet

Medium: oil on canvas

Fright Night, The Witches Hour & The Darkest Hour by DVerissimo - Like it? Find out more and buy HERE (t-shirts, phone & laptop cases, prints, pillows, stickers, mugs, calendars, etc…)

Check this post for ACTIVE COUPONS, SPECIAL OFFERS & DISCOUNTS (daily updated) —–> https://goo.gl/jBWO6E

😊

A giant predatory lizard swam in Antarctic seas near the end of the dinosaur age http://www.geologypage.com/2016/11/giant-predatory-lizard-swam-antarctic-seas-near-end-dinosaur-age.html

😊

800-Year-Old Skeleton Yields Genome of Deadly Infection

Keep reading

😊

Archaeologists Discover Unknown Fortress Walls, Byzantine Gold Coin

Two unknown fortress walls and three unknown fortress towers as well as a 14th century Byzantine gold coin have been discovered by archaeologists during the 2016 excavations of the major medieval fortress of Rusocastro in today’s Southeast Bulgaria.

The Rusocastro Fortress is best known for the Battle of Rusocastro in 1332 AD. It was the last big military victory of the medieval Bulgarian Empire before it was conquered by the invading Ottoman Turks at the end of the 14th century.

It was also the last major battle of the seven-century-long Bulgarian-Byzantine Wars for domination of the Balkan Peninsula (lasting from the 7th until the 14th century), which ended when, weakened by their hostilities against one another, among other factors, Bulgaria and Byzantium were both conquered by the Ottoman Turkish invaders at the end of the 14th and the beginning of the 15th century. Read more.

😊

Patagonian fossil leaves reveal rapid recovery from dinosaur extinction event http://www.geologypage.com/2016/11/patagonian-fossil-leaves-reveal-rapid-recovery-dinosaur-extinction-event.html

Anahita and Ishtar: Connections to the Planet Venus

Anahita was a goddess associated with water, fertility, wisdom, warfare, and eventually the planet Venus. During the Achaemenid dynasty in Persia, she became incorporated into the Zoroastrian religion as a Yazata, a type of minor divinity. Her association with warfare and the planet Venus was not very prominent before the Achaemenid Period, leading some to conclude that her cult and persona may have become influenced by the goddess Ishtar. In becoming associated with Ishtar, she may have taken on the characteristics of a Venus god/Venus goddess, a type of god which appears to occur across cultures associated with the planet Venus.  

Read more…

Yerres, Path Through the Old Growth Woods in the Park via Gustave Caillebotte

Size: 43x31 cm Medium: oil on canvas