#24 Antiquity for Modern Viewing
The Gems of the Ancient World that you should seek out...
By Alex Ness
June 9, 2024
While it is it true, deeply so, that I am a believer in a far greater ancient past than we are aware, I am also fascinated by the ruins, trade routes, monuments, cultures, and artifacts recovered over time.
Couldn't we all could use images from the past, and ask ourselves, what have we lost?
The Pyramids of the world, and they are by no means the only ones, just the easiest to have become seen and explored. They exist in Asia. They exist in Africa. They perhaps exist in Europe, but most are not original, being built in homage to others. And probably not in Bosnia, despite a cottage industry that suggests so. They exist in South and Central America. And perhaps there are some in realms now covered in water, from continental shift and catastrophic events of nature.
Ancient Temples from across the world. These represent more than a symbolic monument, such as some of the pyramids. They are buildings designed as memorials and stations of worship for the queen, king, or personage that led, represented greatness of the culture, or saved the country in time of war. Those shown here are in Egypt, Cambodia and Greece.
And if you get an opportunity to see artifacts, relics or even beautiful recreations of known gems of the past, take it. I missed the King Tut appearance at Charlotte North Carolina's Mint Museum. It wasn't due to being lazy or doing something else better. It happened at a time where we had very little money, and to go to the exhibit, I'd get nothing for two months in spending money. So I had to make a choice. I regret it, but, sometimes, we haven't the resources to do all we wish to do.
In the image below, you see a Sumerian text telling the epic of Gilgamesh. It deals with how death was challenged, how various peoples entered the world of the Sumerians. There is a Mayan sundial, and calendar. It is amazingly accurate, for the era, and technology and knowledge of the stars, planets, stars, and our solar system's chief source of light, heat, power and gravity. Next, King Tutankhamen's death mask, beautiful, but more so, amazing that a relatively unimportant king, (not truly unimportant, as he seems to have been the son of Akhenaten, the first monotheist and had an opportunity to extend the rebellion against polytheism or reject it and return to tradition.) The final piece is from Japan, and some see it as a potential piece of evidence of newcomers to earth, if not Asia. But over all it is called a Jomon and it is thought to be alien, but perhaps a being from a different realm, (such as hell or heaven) or dimension, or reminiscent of even the Yukai, the spirit kin of Japan.
Lastly, there are amazing events, such as wars, rebellions, or natural disasters, but also, discoveries of things such as the worker housing near a pyramid, rumors of a great library under the sphinx's paw, and finding there is an empty area in just such a place.
More remains to be found, much more. There is so much to find, how can it not interest people?
Lastly, an image from a book that might not be public domain, so my use is as fair use, but if told otherwise I will gladly remove it.
3300 BCE The Battle of Meggido, led by Thutmose III near Har Meggido, the mountain after which the wars of Armageddon will be fought.
