Heracleion Gold

Gold jewelry recovered from the Heracleion dives. Square knot design, Heracleion. "2,300 years ago the Egyptian city of Heracleion was a busy port on the Mediterranean. At the mouth of the Nile, it would have seen all the traffic in and out of Egypt. The legendary Paris and Helen of Troy were believed to have taken refuge there. Legends were all that was left to history until recently, because around 1,200 years ago the city sank to the bottom of the sea. It wasn’t rediscovered until the year 2000, by an archaeological expedition searching for Napoleonic shipwrecks. The ruins and artifacts featured the many ships and anchors, and the remains of a massive temple with stone sculptures. There is no certainty about how this city ended up 150 feet below water. Here it is depicted as a rapid event, such as an earthquake leading to a dislodged shelf." Before this, Heracleion was only legendary. Bronze statue. This statue is very tall. Heracleion.

Heraklion Alexandria Egypt - Elephant Chariot

Ptolemy with the elephants. "Gold plaque (11 x 5 cm) engraved with a Greek text of five and a half lines found during preliminary exploration of the southern sector of Heracleion. It is an example of the plaques added to foundation deposits as dedications from donators, here king, Ptolemy III (246–222 BC), who commissioned the building." A diver who is searching for the secrets of Cleopatra at Heraklion. Sunken city treasure. Dedication of the Sarapeum. Minoans in Alexandria - sunken city treasure. From Canopus, Byzantine and Islamic coins.

Merovingian Brooches 6th - 7th c. A.D. Frankish

Copper alloy. Early Medieval jewelry.

Tower of Babel Slates and the Utah Semiramis

Michigan relics clay tablet depicting the Tower of Babel - the artist has used glyphs as a part of the composition. A recurring theme of the Michigan slates, the Flood of Noah and the Tower of Babel at the bottom. It is said that Nimrod built the Tower of Babel - Semiramis was his queen. The Utah Semiramis is connected in this way to this popular theme. The Utah Semiramis, her name is written in cuneiform around the edge of this portrait. Another reference to the Tower of Nimrod, a winged bull found in Ecuador. It is a part of the Padre Crespi collection. Assyrian inspired pieces from the Crespi collection. Assyrian eagles from the Crespi collection, are they a reference to the Tower of Babel? Gnostic serpents from the Crespi collection. Semiramis. Semiramis. The Mystic Symbol on a stone from Manti cave in Utah, it is similar to the Burrows cave artifacts. Michigan slates amulet, is that the Sidicus bird from the Tower of Babel legend? After the languages were confused at the Tower of Babel, the Sidicus bird was the only one who recalled how to speak! This bird is a very popular subject of the slates.

Animal Parables - The Aberdeen Bestiary

The Crested Hoopoe. Medieval bestiary ostrich. Blue leopard. Tiger, the knight has her cub. "Now, with new high-resolution images of each page of the 12th-century manuscript, scientists have found that it was likely seized from a monastic library by scouts of King Henry VIII during the dissolution of monasteries in the 1500s. As such, the book was likely used as a tool for teaching rather than as a treasure for a royal elite, like one of the king's ancestors, the researchers said." This older picture shows the improvement in high-resolution photography! Bestiary gold lion. The wolf and the shepherd.

The Aberdeen Bestiary - Gold Leaf

IKONOGRAFIA IKONOLOGIA - Aberdeen Bestiary. Bees and hives. Cherubim. Mosaic face of a cherubim.