They even had strippers and horus.
Posted on 12/30/2022 7:45:46 PM PST by SunkenCiv
The art in question is part of a series discovered at the Amarna site on the east bank of the Nile, in modern day Minya. Excavations conducted in 1924 revealed a palace featuring several lavishly decorated rooms that include numerous plaster panels illustrated with natural scenes in stunning detail...
Here the team looked at artwork in what's known as the Green Room, a place most likely used for rest and relaxation, if not occasional socializing and music playing.
Some birds, including the pigeons and kingfishers, had already been identified, but the researchers were able to expand on the catalogue of known animals by using high-quality copies of the artwork and modern ornithological records. Shrikes and wagtails were among the new birds identified in this analysis.
The study also notes that migrant birds were marked with a triangle, perhaps a clue for ancient birdwatchers and suggesting the artwork depicts a particular season. The researchers are hoping that their findings provoke further discussions of the art...
The researchers argue the ambiguity artistic license can introduce warrant caution in interpretation. It's possible that the birds were attracted to the area by human activity, as happens in urban areas today. Yet there are no actual people in the scene, so it may be that the rock pigeons were introduced to make the painting seem wilder and more untamed.
"While the artwork of the Green Room is an exemplar of naturalistic execution, it should not be regarded as a dedicated ornithological treatise," the authors note.
(Excerpt) Read more at sciencealert.com ...
I’m not saying it was aliens.
They even had strippers and horus.
Artists making artistic embellishments? Oh the horrors!
That’s an interesting observation. I had not thought about it like that before. Thanks.
Is such a thing even possible? Yes, it is.
A Devian Tart?
:^) Thanks POF.
Even back then, travel brochures exaggerated the truth. They also showed five-star accommodations when you got a stone bed and a rock pillow, at best.
So do they offer a Senior discount?
back when I was partying like it was 1999 they begged me to stay and offered me a week and 10k for room service and incidentals, but I don't do black pyramids anymore.
I still have nightmares about the alien Osiran Sutekh who I had though destroyed.
Artistic license? Whodathunk?
“Say da woid ya get da boid...” Groucho I, 2nd dynasty.
Huh.
Some birds are attracted by human activity, but there’s no humans in the painting, therefore the artist made it all up?
True, and some Roman era wall paintings and murals show stunning creativity and realism that was definitely lost during the Middle Ages and would not be seen again until the Renaissance............
I think there have been a lot of reassessment of the Middle Ages in recent years. They weren’t as ‘dark’ as we have often thought:
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