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Tag Archives: ancient

2013-08-30

ancient, crafts, pottery.

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Ancient “native American” pottery-head text-mode style. White Mountain Redware, made between year 1000 and 1500. All pics from rarepottery.info.

2013-08-21

ancient, croatia, glagolitic.

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The Baska Tablet, ca 1100. Two meters long, and 800 kg. Written in Croatian Glagolitic. Read more here. Pic via.

2013-08-14

1000s, 1500s, ancient, architecture, tiles.

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The Basel Minster in Switzerland (1019 – 1500). Pics by Maya

2013-08-13

ancient, peru, textile.

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Ancient patterns, mostly from Peru. via

2013-08-05

1600s, ancient, croatia, glagolitic.

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Music in Croatian glagolitic, 1600s. More pics & info here.

2013-07-29

800s, ancient, glagolitic.

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Slavic Glagolitic character, thanks to Submarine ‏@sinkdeep for pointing it out! The Glagolitic alphabet is the oldest known Slavic alphabet from the 9th century.

2013-07-28

1200s, ancient, usa.

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Text-mode style petroglyphs, made 600-800 years ago in the so-called Petrified Forest. via

2013-07-24

ancient, textile.

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Celtic knots were used already in the 3rd century Roman Empire. It’s mostly known as a Christian decoration style. Pics from here & here.

2013-07-09

1400s, ancient, architecture, labyrinth, tiles.

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Church of Saint Quentin. Began in 1195 and completed after 300 years; labyrinth dates from 1495.

2013-07-06

1300s, ancient, architecture, kufic, square kufic, tiles.

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Sheikh Safi al-Din Khānegāh and Shrine Ensemble (1345, Iran)