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may your ka live,
and may you achieve millions of years,
you who love thebes,
sitting with your face to the north wind,
and your eyes seeing happiness.
-- the wishing cup of tutankhamun

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In 1873 Dr. Edward Clarke of Harvard College published a small volume called Sex in Education, in which he argued that higher education was destroying the reproductive functions of American women, by overworking them at a critical time in their physiological development.

Victorian Women and Menstruation, Showalter and Showalter.

[Image: a photo of a letterbox that has a small copy of the “Cave Canem” mosaic from Pompeii showing a black dog with “Beware of the Dog” in Latin underneath.]

Hands down the most awesome letterbox I’ve ever seen.

There’s willies — big willies — everywhere.

Mary Beard, Pompeii: Life and Death in a Roman Town

And think of the smell of the shit!

Mary Beard, Pompeii: Life and Death in a Roman Town

[Pompeii] was like a cross between Las Vegas and Brighton.

Mary Beard, Pompeii: Life and Death in a Roman Town

signs I need to stop: I was disappointed that the TV Tropes page for “Achaea” did not mention Ancient Greece.

As soon as [Gandhi] adopts the garb of a Hindu peasant, he becomes something Indian Muslims are not.

William Dalrymple. I hadn’t thought of it like that — which also leads on to Nehru, and how he is blind to his own Hindu-ness because he’s atheist and thinks that absolves him of being a cultural Hindu (and a Brahmin at that!). Hooray for docos helping things.

He thought India had to earn home rule by becoming a more morally pure nation.

Is this setting off ‘do not want’ bells for anyone else? No alarms? Okay.

Gandhi decided to travel in third class. What he saw horrified him: the trains were overcrowded, the food covered in flies, the lavatories were horrifying and the tea was undrinkable.

Mishal Husain

sometimes I think of that scene in Meet the Romans where Mary Beard shows us a ring that has “I don’t love you enough” inscribed on it (in Latin, obvs) and explains that the sentiment is probably “I don’t love you as much as you should be loved because no one could” and ow, roman feels.

Archaeologists don’t seem to have much of an imagination.

At Pompeii and Herculaneum:

House of the Carbonised Furniture

House of the Trellis

~~House of the Slightly Crooked Doorframe~~

If the descriptions of Amun’s rituals of re-creation are to be believed, Hatshepsut was responsible for sexually exciting the god himself, presumably in his statue form. One of her priestess titles was actually “God’s Hand.” If we are to take the agenda of this title literally Hatshepsut was essentially responsible for facilitating the masturbatory act of the god in his holy shrine, instigating a sacred sexual release that allowed for the re-creation of the god, and his entire store of creative potential. As god’s wife, Hatshepsut used her feminine sexuality to enable the god’s continued renewal of the universe itself—it didn’t hurt that the position of god’s wife of Amun came with lands, servants, and palaces. It was a lot of power for a ten-year-old girl to take in.

hahaha I am so immature but hahahahahaha

Speculation that, in 1547–8, Queen Catherine Parr, widow of Henry VIII, and her fourth husband Thomas Seymour were involved in a ménage with the future Queen Elizabeth, is probably exaggerated, although there were well attested episodes of sexually charged horseplay involving the three.

This is my new favourite Wikipedia sentence ever. Sexually charge horseplay??? (edit: okay, so horseplay does not involve horses. Less amusing.)

emma laughs alone with history books

The wife of the last gay viceroy of India, Lord Mountbatten…

This quote (from some dodgy, probably machine-translated website) will never fail to amuse me — apart from the fact that Mounbatten was probably bi, I like how it’s implying that there were several gay viceroys of India.

emma laughs alone with history books

This record is sealed by a lentoid depicting a central octopus surrounded by dolphins ( CMS I, 312); the seal may have belonged to an important individual: An octopus is painted on the ﬂoor directly in front of the throne, and dolphins are painted on ﬂoors in the “Queen’s Megaron” suite.

John Younger.

Have you ever considered a career as an English teacher? Sometimes I look at the suggestions historians make and I remember we’re flying blind, here, and somewhere in the afterlife (assuming the Mycenaeans had one — which they probably did, given the grave offerings), the Mycenaeans are laughing at us. ”Dolphins represent power? Well, whaddaya know. I just liked the look of ‘em.”