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🔍 Delving into ancient digital hieroglyphs, our intrepid archaeologist discovers that pixelated #squiggles from 1985 are still "cool," thereby proving that #nostalgia clouds judgment with a rosy haze. 🤯 Who needs modern art when you can squint at 18,000 indistinguishable blobs? Let's track down these artists and ask them why they didn’t pursue real careers. 🎨🙄
blog.decryption.net.au/posts/m #ancientart #digitalart #archaeology #pixelart #HackerNews #ngated

decryption's blog · MacPaint Art From The Mid-80s Still Looks Great Today40 years later and the art people painstaking made in MacPaint on their little Macs still amazes me.

I don't work on ancient sculptural #polychromy (or ancient art at all for that matter), so it's not surprising if I'm clueless on scholarly discussion of the problem @yora points out in this post: mastodon.gamedev.place/@yora/1

But maybe somebody in my network is?
To paraphrase Yora: given the coloristic(?) sophistication of e.g., surviving wall painting from Pompeii and Roman-era mummy portraits from Egypt and much else ancient art, aren't modern reconstructions of sculptural polychromy wildly simplistic and is that partly because we're only able to sample, when anything of the pigment remains at all, the initial undercoat?

Gamedev MastodonYora (@yora@mastodon.gamedev.place)Attached: 1 image Attempts at replicating the paint jobs on ancient marble statues always looking pretty crap might be because the traces of pigments that can be recovered from the surface of authentic statues are only from the very first coat of paint. Given that we have plenty of mosaics, and actual paintings on wood from Roman-period Egypt that have a lot of detail and shading, it seems almost certain that the final paint job on the statues would have been much more elaborate as well. #archaeology #history

Paris exhibition showcases Gaza’s endangered archaeological treasures saved from destruction

An exhibition opened this month at Paris’s Institut du Monde Arabe (IMA) that offers a glimpse of Gaza’s archaeological heritage against the background of relentless warfare and destruction in the region...

More information: archaeologymag.com/2025/04/par

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Sitting quietly in its museum space, this stone throne speaks volumes without saying a word. Thrones with this distinctive U-shape are found everywhere in South America. There are a symbol of power. This specific one is from the Manteño-Huancavilca culture, from the West coast of Ecuador.

#ManteñoHuancavilca #Ecuador #WestEcuador #SouthAmerica #preColumbian #precolonial #ancient #throne #archaeology #indigenous #culture #stone #stoneCarving #civilisation #artefact #ancientArt #ceremonial #museum #treasure #nativeCulture #preHispanic #ancestralWisdom #indigenousArt #photography #photo #fotografia #foto #pixelfed #travel #trip #art #arte