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.
Monday, February 13, 2023
Gold helmet of King Meskalamdug, a Sumerian king of the First Dynasty of Ur. Date: c. 2600 BC. Discovered in the Royal cᴇмᴇтᴇʀʏ of Ur in modern-day Iraq
Bummer. The leather edge-lining and chin laces seem to have rotted away.
ReplyDeleteBut courtesy of the royal engraver, now we know the fashionable royal hairstyle from over 4½ millennia ago.
"Archers! Aim for the ear hole!"
ReplyDeleteHow come you never see armored cups?
ReplyDeleteYou’d think that might be important!
I wonder what it would be worth on Ebay?
ReplyDelete10-20 years for art theft. :)
DeleteArt? Dug up from a cemetary.
DeleteArchaeology is simply grave robbery, after a sufficient interval of time has passed.
DeleteAnd a 4600-year-old handmade gold helmet dug up from same is beyond any question an object d'art of immense cultural and national significance.
Just imagine the 2600 B.C. version of Burt Reynolds using it in the chariot prequel version of Hooper.
I thought we weren't supposed to metal detect graveyards.
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