Al Pastor

@inari

I met a traveller from an antique land
Who said: Two vast and trunkless legs of stone
Stand in the desert. Near them, on the sand,
Half sunk, a shattered visage lies, whose frown,
And wrinkled lip, and sneer of cold command,
Tell that its sculptor well those passions read
Which yet survive, stamped on these lifeless things,
The hand that mocked them and the heart that fed:
And on the pedestal these words appear:
“My name is Ozymandias, king of kings:
Look on my works, ye Mighty, and despair!”
Nothing beside remains. Round the decay
Of that colossal wreck, boundless and bare
The lone and level sands stretch far away.

https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/46565/ozymandias

#Ozymandias
#hubris

https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/46565/ozymandias

@HellsBelle my favorite take so far:

https://mastodon.green/@davidallengreen/115853216882810941

It is fascinating to think that this was likely in Boudicca’s army(s).

@KentNavalesi @archaeology the Cambridge paper is a fascinating read, especially the second half, where they get past the science and technology of the discovery and discuss the context.

“The churches in Africa were powerhouses of early-medieval Christendom, and the African Abbot Hadrian who joined Archbishop Theodore in Canterbury in the later seventh century played a fundamental role in the practical establishment of Christianity in England (Lapidge 2004).”

Wow

@KentNavalesi @archaeology @medievodons @histodons the haaretz URL is returning an error, but here’s the original report:

https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/antiquity/article/west-african-ancestry-in-seventhcentury-england-two-individuals-from-kent-and-dorset/F00D6E3182A79B643ADC8994F2EA5818

This is wild, thanks for sharing it.

#humans #archaeology #Britain #genetics