Old European culture

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Mosaic of Farming Activities from Julia Caesarea, Algeria.

A small lapis lazuli disc, 2100-1900 BC, Trans-Elamite period, Southeastern Iran.

A ceramic fragment, found in Mehrgarh, Indus Valley, Pakistan.

An Ancient Egyptian wall painting depicting a man kneeling under a date palm tree full of ripe fruits, and (seemingly) drinking water (from a river?)...

Phoenician dish (?)

A map from "Tičnice iz naravoverja: zanesljivi kažipoti v slovensko prazgodovino" [Bird-hills from Natural Religion: Reliable Waymarks of Slovene Prehistory] self published book by Leopold Sever in 2013.

Cup with zoomorphic handle in a shape of an Ibex, wild goat.

Coin minted in the 3rd century BC on the Greek Island of Kea depicting Dog Star Sirius...

Wow...Mortars and pestles from an Early Natufian settlement Wadi Hammeh in Pella, Jordan, dated to about 14,500 to 14,000 BP...These are amazing...

A folk tale from Solčava, Slovenija: "When Adam and Eve had to leave Paradise God gave them a hoe and said they're only allowed to cultivate as much soil as they can reach with a hoe without moving from the spot they're standing on.

This is the end of the "bent" silver rhyton which was found in Urartian site Arin-Berd (Ancient Erebuni, today Yerevan) in Armenia, and which was dated to the Achaemenid period...

60BC-20BC, Celtic Atrebates/Regni gold coin, found in 1873 in Selsey, East Wittering, England, currently in the British Museum.

This is an Elk-head staffs found in a grave in the Yuzhniy Oleniy Ostrov cemetery, one of the largest Early Holocene cemeteries in northern Eurasia, located in Karelia, northwest Russia...

Babylonian baked clay tablet found in Iraq and dated to 2000-1600 BC.

About (one of two) earliest animal calendar markers for the grain harvest season: snake, depicted here on the pillar 22 from enclosure D, found in PPN site Göbekli Tepe, Turkey, and dated to 11th - 10th c.

Depiction of a "mythical composite animal" on a plaster plaque from the 10,000BC Pre-Pottery Neolithic A layers of the archaeological site Körtik Tepe, located in the Diyarbakır district of Turkey.

Stone relief dated ca 50-150 AD from Croy Hill, Scotland.

This map shows surnames in different languages which mean "smith".

Late Sassanian depiction of a deity on a column capital now held in Taqe Bostan , which @persiaantiqua identified as Mehr (Mithra) based on the fact that he is surrounded by blooming lotuses...

Oh this is amazing.

Two Sassanian wall relief slabs dated to the 5th-6th c.

A very strange 5th c.

A while back I came across this very interesting coin minted by Syennesis III who was king of Cilicia dated to 420-400 BC.

Whore of Babylon on the Seven-Headed Beast, Illustration for Rev. 17:3–8.