“Nineteenth century” artefacts found in Poland actually from ancient Egypt and Rome | Notes From Poland

Bronze figurines of the Egyptian and Roman deities Osiris and Bacchus that were discovered in eastern Poland last year, and which were initially believed to be from the 19th century, have now been dated back to ancient Egypt and Rome.

The heritage conservator for Lublin province has confirmed that the figure of Osiris is an original from the 1st millennium BC, while the depiction of Bacchus is from the 1st century AD.

The finds were made in May 2022 in the grounds of a stately home that belonged to the Kleniewski family, local landowners. That led to initial speculation that the figures were part of their interior decoration from when the home was built in the 19th century.

However, the unprecedented nature of the discovery meant there were always doubts about this theory and now experts from the National Museum in Lublin and the University of Warsaw’s archaeology department have confirmed that the objects are in fact originals from antiquity. Read More »

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Olafur Eliasson, The mediated motion, 2001
 Kunsthaus Bregenz, Austria

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theperksofbeingalibrarian:

library-lessons:

At the library…

Little known fact: 90% of librarians are just overgrown children.

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artist sundaekids

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