BORN/DEAD

touba:“Pillars of a Sabaean moon-god temple near Marib, Yemen loom beyond a broken slab. In the inscription, fathers petition for divine protection of their sons, contemporaries of Jesus.” Photograph by Steve Raymer for the August 1979 issue of National Geographic.

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vasuki:HATHOR

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crashinglybeautiful:Tourist, interested in cuneiform writing, is copying Egyptian hieroglyphs from the walls of old Egyptian monuments. 1927. (from: ratak-monodosico, oldchum via: Nationaal Archief’s photostream.)

crashinglybeautiful:Francis Frith, “Karnak” [mid-1850s] (from invisiblestories)