It’s Angie 🧚🏻

stormdistrict:
Illustration by from Around The Year (Floris Books)
by Elsa Beskow

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prisperegrine:
“It’s money that makes the world go around… or is that love?”

The Curse of the Kings
Genre(s) : Historical Fiction, Romantic Suspense, Classic, Victorian Era.

The Curse Of The Kings is a Classic Novel by Victoria Holt. I highly recommend this book to anyone who loves archeology related novels and gothic novels. This book is divided into ‘past occurrence’ or a 'flashback’ which occurs in London and the 'present’ which is set in Egypt. It clearly shows the culture and places in Egypt along with some of thier terminologies and delicacies such as Esh es Seraya and Khosaf.
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Overview

Judith, with her unfulfilled needs and doubts of his workaholic husband, experienced a lot of unexpected turn of events that happened in a site in Egypt, Where the tombs of the Pharaoh’s were believed to be hidden. This, however, didn’t stop her husband from locating what his father might have been discovered. A disastrous event happen, this might be the curse of the pharaohs as what everyone is talking about or they’re about to discover something that’s been locked up in ages.

dark-but-just-a-game:
These covers….🩵🩵🩵

sybil–vain:
The Sandalwood Fan by Katherine Wigmore Eyre
Dell Publishing Co, 1968
From My Collection
I love to read this genre. 🩵

nature-travel-photography:
Blue Mountains, NSW, Australia [OC] [1080x1350] - Author: steven_sandner

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The Battersea shield

britishmuseum:
This magnificent shield was found in the River Thames in 1857, where Battersea Bridge stands today. It dates to the Iron Age, between 350 and 50 BC. The Battersea shield is not actually a complete shield, but only the facing – a metal cover that was attached to the front of wooden shield.
The Battersea shield does not show signs of having been damaged in combat, but this does not necessarily mean that it was not used in warfare. Flamboyant display seems to have been an important part of Iron Age battles, and both weapons and armour are often highly decorative. This decoration is sometimes hidden. Even the handle of the Battersea shield was very ornate. Perhaps the swirling designs were believed to hold magical or protective properties which empowered the warriors who fought with these objects. The highly polished bronze and glinting red glass on the shield would certainly have made for a great spectacle. Ultimately, though, it was thrown or placed in the River Thames, where many weapons were offered as sacrifices in the Bronze and Iron Ages.
Iron Age shields are not commonly found. Those shields excavated from Iron Age burials were made of wood, sometimes covered with leather. They have very few metal parts. The Battersea shield is made from different parts of sheet bronze, held together with bronze rivets and enclosed in a binding strip. All the rivets are hidden by overlaps between different components where the panels and roundels were originally attached to the organic backing.
All of the decoration is concentrated in the three roundels. A high domed boss in the middle of the central roundel is over where the handle was underneath. The La Tène-style decoration is made using the repoussé technique, emphasised with engraving and stippling. The overall design is highlighted with 27 framed studs of red enamel (opaque red glass) in four different sizes, the largest set at the centre of the boss.