And what country can preserve its liberties if their rulers are not warned from time to time that their people preserve the spirit of resistance? Let them take arms. The remedy is to set them right as to facts, pardon and pacify them. What signify a few lives lost in a century or two? The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants.
Sunday, December 4, 2022
A granite sphinx of King Amenemhat III, with the rarer lion’s mane, replacing the usual striped Nemes cloth headdress. 12th dynasty, c1820 BC.
Excellent political propaganda/marketing on the part of the Egyptian elite.
Before the iron age. Carving granite with bronze?
ReplyDeleteHey, it's what They told us in school. I remember being confused, but I shrugged and accepted it. For decades. Finally it hit me.
ReplyDeleteThe disconect between what is, and what we know, grows.
ReplyDeletesome old civilizations were more equal than other old civilizations.
ReplyDeletedesecrated with nose&beard damage- work of conquerors.
ReplyDeleteLooks like they had Furries even then.
ReplyDeleteGimme those ears baby.
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