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John the Alchemist
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John the Alchemist
@johnlopez2nd
Alchemist, Artist, Musician and Dad.
Присоединился Ocak 2014
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Look closely at this gate.
The bodies are lion-like, the faces are human, and the whole entrance feels deliberately otherworldly.
This is Alaca Höyük’s Sphinx Gate, one of the most striking Hittite monuments in Türkiye.
Ancient walls did not only keep enemies out.
Sometimes they told visitors exactly who ruled the world inside.
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There’s the Mayan Ruins we know & then there’s the ones no one has laid their eyes upon since the jungle swallowed them whole.
Recent LiDAR scans over the dense jungle of Campeche in the heart of the Yucatan are giving our eyes sites we could have barely imagined.
These strange configurations are being analyzed & two of them look for all intense purposes to act as Geo glyphs.
Representations of some kind; important to the Maya.
Are they Mayan Gods?
Sacred Mayan Animals?
What do your eyes see?
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Pedra do Ingá feels less like a wall of symbols and more like a question left in stone.
Carved beside the Ingá River in Paraíba, Brazil, this itacoatiara is covered with repeated grooves, cups, spirals, and figure-like marks.
Look at how the rounded cup-marks cluster beside the long vertical cuts.
Archaeologists treat it as rock art, but its exact meaning remains unresolved.
What detail here looks most intentional to you?
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There are so many amazing ancient places like this in Arizona. 🙌
山田英春@lithosgraphics
アメリカ南西部の壁画サイトで、もう一度行きたいと思う所はいくつかあるが、もう行けなくなってしまった所もある。アリゾナ、ウィンズローのロックアート・ランチだ。
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The Sanctuary at Karnak ruins hide its full glory in the negative spaces.
Beneath the forest‑thick columns there’s a sense of what’s missing: the cedar roofs long vanished, the painted reliefs once vibrant with color now gone. A ceiling now replaced by sky.
What survives is only the skeleton of its original form. In its completed state you would have been closed off from the world we’re in and placed into another one.
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🚨 AUCTION ALERT: CZ 75 RAF LIMITED EDITION 🚨
We’re auctioning the third batch of the brand-new CZ 75 RAF Limited Edition, dedicated to the iconic 312 Squadron — the third of four Czechoslovak fighter units in the Royal Air Force during WWII. brnw.ch/21x2wNb
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