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The Tomb of Bibi Jawindi, built in the 15th century in Pakistan for the great granddaughter of a famed Sufi saint. Over time, the tomb has severely deteriorated, and is under the stewardship of various conservation groups.
The Athenian Treasury at Delphi was constructed by the Athenians to house dedications made by their city and citizens to the sanctuary of Apollo. The entire treasury, including its sculptural decoration, is built of Parian marble; its date of construction is disputed, scholarly opinion ranging from 510 to 480 BCE. Pausanias mentions the building in his account of the sanctuary, claiming that it was dedicated from the spoils of the Battle of Marathon, fought in 490 BCE.
The Snake Charmer is an oil-on-canvas painting by French artist Jean-Léon Gérôme produced around 1879.
Gérôme made the painting on a visit to Constantinople in 1875, and his observations informed details of the painting. The inscriptions on the walls cannot easily be read, but parts are in Arabic Calligraphy. Despite apparent errors in writing, one section in the larger text on top can be identified as a verse from the Koran (2:256) condemning coercion towards Islamic monotheism. The other inscriptions are a dedication to a sultan. The blue tiles are inspired by İznik panels in the Altinyol and Baghdad Kiosk of Topkapi palace.
> for the great granddaughter of a famed Sufi saint.
Their descendants would be known as the Bukhari family.
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This is the Rani ki vav (Queen's Stepwell). It was built as a memorial to the 11th century AD king Bhimdev by his widowed queen, Udayamati, of the Chaulukya dynasty. .
It has about a length of seven storeys with each storey being carved with (at the very least) 500 sculptures. Most of the sculptures represent humans, kings, demons and gods with the main theme circling around the ten incarnations of Vishnu.
A pic to show how incredibly detailed it is.
Built between 480 and 470 BCE in the Corinthian colony of Silinus, the temple measured around 40 x 16 metres and had six columns on the façade with 14 along the sides. It was possibly dedicated to Artemis or Lethe. The interior flooring contains a mosaic depicting the Punic goddess of fertility Tanit. Areas of southern Britain are also named after the goddess and the Thames river itself is thought to be named after Tanit.
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Veeky Forums as fuck, but Maximilian skipped leg day...
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A leader of the peasant army gets executed after the German peasants' war of 1524/25
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I never got why this picture got so popular, it's so bland and motionless
I think it's cool...
She looks like Constantine
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thats pretty fucked
A selection of the main Thracian weapons with the exception of the Rhomphaia
Yes, the victorious nobility wanted to set an example that a rebellion like this wouldn't happen again. Just look at the peasants' losses.
Knights that had joined the peasants and fought with them were usually executed brutally.
>The Black Company was falsely informed of victory at Frankenhausen, and ambushed outside of Ingolstadt. They managed to regroup, retreat, and fortify the town's castle and cathedral. The cathedral was burned with no survivors, and the castle was taken after three assaults. A portion of the Black Company broke free, only to be encircled again in nearby woodlands. If Geyer had been leading Black Company through the Battle of Ingolstadt, he barely escaped with his life.
>Whether or not Geyer was at Ingolstadt, he was one of the last survivors of Müntzer's army. (...) While traveling together, they stabbed Geyer to death in the Gramschatz Forest near Würzburg.
*they (who stabbed him) were servants of his brother-in-law, who betrayed him (the brother-in-law was another nobleman).
en.wikipedia.org
pic unrelated, just Albert Einstein and Nils Bohr walking together.
The ruins of Bukelon fortress. In the valleys not far from the fortress on the 14 April 1205 the Latin Empire got fucked for the first time and never really recovered. This very keep is where the capture emperor Baldwin I of Flanders got locked up at first.
It looks Byzantine what is it?
Excuse the autism, but you can easily do an image search, it seems many people don't know that (see pic).
Apparently it is late Roman (not Byzantine), this one was found in Serbia.
Life must have sucked as an average bloke for 99% of history.
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Just let it die already