#Parthian

El Pregoner del Metallpregonermetall
2025-04-21
ƧƿѦςɛ♏ѦਹѤʞspacemagick
2025-02-06

@mzedp
They look remarkably similar to this...
ancientart.tumblr.com/post/981
I'm pretty sure I've also seen similar looking ('modern') versions come up on Antiques Roadshow.

2024-07-06

The visual landscape of rock art in Qeydu Valley in Teymare in the Central Iranian Plateau [pdf 31pp] #RockArt #petroglyphs #chalcolithic #Parthian #Sassanid #Islamic sciencedirect.com/science/arti

nemo™ 🇺🇦nemo@mas.to
2024-04-13

The Strange(awesome 😋😋😋) Flavor of #Parthian #Chicken from Ancient #Rome

youtube.com/watch?v=6LynenQ5h2

#history #cuisine #cooking #food

2024-03-06

2000-Year-Old Marvel: The Mystery of the Parthian Battery.

The Parthian Battery is believed to be about 2000 years old (from the Parthian period, roughly 250 BCE to CE 250).

arkeonews.net/2000-year-old-ma #batteries #history #Parthian

Parthian battery
2022-11-16

Looking for something else, I just came across a cute description by Ammianus Marcellinus of the Chinese making silk (he lived in the 4th c CE). #Romans had access to Chinese silks but there was no direct trade. Instead it was conducted by #Parthian and #Kushan intermediaries. So the Romans were a little bit vague on the 'Seres' #LateAntiquity

67. The Seres themselves live a peaceful life, for ever unacquainted with arms and warfare; and since to gentle and quiet folk ease is pleasurable, they are troublesome to none of their neighbours. Their climate is agreeable and healthful, the sky is clear, the winds gentle and very pleasant. There is an abundance of well-lighted woods, the trees of which produce a substance which they work with frequent sprinkling, like a kind of fleece; then from the wool-like material, mixed with water, they draw out very fine threads, spin the yarn, and make sericum,1 formerly for the use of the nobility, but nowadays available even to the lowest without any distinction.

68. The Seres themselves are frugal beyond all others, live a quiet life, and avoid intercourse with the rest of mortals. And when strangers, in order to buy threads or anything else, cross the river, their wares are laid out and with no exchange of words their value is estimated by the eye alone;2 and they are so abstemious, that they hand over their own products without themselves getting any foreign ware in return.

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