golden-days-of-yore:

The unopened seal to King Tutankhamun’s tomb, 1922. [1600x1080]

(Source: in-rigor-mortis, via timetravelteam)

speciesbarocus:

Alexandri Donati - Roma vetus ac recens utriusque ædificiis illustrata (1695).

booksnbuildings:

[Pyramid of Cestius, Rome]

(Source: theshallowdepths)

t-s-k-b:

[Old Venetian courtyard, Venice, Italy]

nickkahler:

Dick Pountain and David Robins, “Timeline of Cool“ Cool Rules Anatomy of an Attitude, c. 2000

Anyone recognise or know anything about this church?

It is/was probably in Croydon, south London.

Peter Hamilton

Alastair Reynolds

Iain Banks

thekhooll:

Highway Picnic !

Car Free Sunday in connection with the oil boycott - November 4, 1973

(via floresenelatico)

centuriespast:

ROMANESQUE SCULPTOR, French
Tympanum (detail)
1125-35
Stone
Abbey Church of Sainte-Foy, Conques

3fix:

Masi Cicli Milano

(via gothamfixed)

Mensur

(Source: fuchsenzeit, via iamafencer)

todaysdocument:

“Life-Preserving Coffin, In Doubtful Cases of Actual Death”

Drawing for a Life-Preserving Coffin, 11/15/1843

The fear of being buried alive led Christian Henry Eisenbrandt to patent a “life-preserving coffin in doubtful cases of actual death.” In his application, he claimed that through a series of springs and levers, even the slightest motion of the head or hand would instantaneously open the coffin lid.

via DocsTeach

(Also fun at parties)

(via coumtransmissions)

geisterseher:

R.M. Ballantyne, The lighthouse: the story of a great fight between man and the sea (1900)

(Source: openlibrary.org, via heliocentra)

thetypologist:

Graded standardized weights. Dolomite. Indus Valley Culture (Pakistan) about 2400–1750 B.C.  Collection of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston.

alphacaeli:

The Taung Child (Australopithecus africanus).

This is a rather lovely photograph of a poignant fossil.