!history
@fedia.io#TIL about The Grillo telephone, a 1960s flip phone telephone from Italy.
"The modern styling, compact form factor, and automatically opening clamshell design set "Grillo" apart from other telephones that were available at the time."
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grillo_telephone
via @discontinued@botsin.space
#grillo #vintage #phone #technology #history
How Sand Built the Great Pyramid - YouTube
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0GXSNNuQfX0
#History #Archeology #Egyptology #Egypt #Pyramids
The most controversial place I've ever been - YouTube
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WCAtk-2UzNg
#History #Turkey
Guardian statue found at Angkor Wat – The History Blog
http://www.thehistoryblog.com/archives/71104
"Guardian statues, known as dvarapala from the Sanskrit words for “gate” and “guard”, were protective figures located at doors and gates in Hindu and Buddhist temples as well as royal palaces throughout southeast Asia. They were depicted as armed warriors, and in Cambodia usually stood with their hands on a large club pointed downward to the ground."
#History #Archeology #Cambodia #AngkorWat
academic researchers/readers of mastodon: is there a solid historical book (books?) that documents and explores the transition from the mechanical age to the age of “modern” technology as someone like heidegger understands the term technology?
i’m imagining a book that interprets the social and cultural transformations between the late medieval and victorian periods, from older conceptions of morality and mechanism to newer ideas about individualism and automation? eg. documenting not only demographic changes, but also the ways of thinking about people that were preconditions for modern technological thought.
i realize this is a rather nebulous request covering a huge time span, but my background is in the philosophy of science and not british history literature.
#academicmastodon #history
An ewer shaped like a rooster is just one of many items visitors will find at The Art of Dining: Food Culture in the Islamic World, an exhibition that opens Sept. 22 in Detroit. Many of the objects on display are imbued with cultural meaning that might not be apparent at first glance. But the ewer, for example, was made hundreds of years ago and probably used for something that might come as a surprise. Atlas Obscura has more: https://flip.it/FGME6V
#Culture #History #Food #MiddleEast #Iran #Detroit #Islam
Viking silver bracelet hoard found on farm in Norway – The History Blog
http://www.thehistoryblog.com/archives/71088
"They were found less than eight inches under the surface so close together than they overlapped each other, so there is no question they have not been disturbed since they were buried in the 9th century."
#History #Archeology #Viking
The Lion of Venice was made in China – The History Blog
http://www.thehistoryblog.com/archives/71097
"A new metallurgic study of the bronze has discovered a large part of it originated from 8th century China and after making its way to Venice, was mixed with other parts and reconstructed in to fit the standard iconography of the winged lion, symbol of Mark the Evangelist and of Venice itself."
#History #Art #Sculpture
https://lcb.de/diplomatique/%E6%9C%80%E5%BE%8C%E7%9A%84%E5%BE%AE%E7%AC%91/?en=
Ein Haus inmitten der Literatur: Seit mehr als fünfzig Jahren ist das Literarische Colloquium Berlin tief im Berliner Literaturleben verwurzelt und strahlt zugleich weit über die Stadt hinaus.
The Emptiness of Pyramid Sarcophagi - YouTube
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oxZcaKszVuU
#History #Egyptology #Egypt #AncientEgypt