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A Selection of Elaborate Keys Designed by Rudolf Hammel from MAK Collection Online. These four were fabricated by Emil Kurczak in Vienna, dating before 1903.
A farewell to the last Palestinian crocodile
The Palestinian crocodile went extinct during the British Mandate period of Palestine, it’s last traceable rhetorical circulation to 1935. Here, the crocodile represents the ecological damage of colonialism in Palestine’s indigenous wildlife, which extends to modern day occupied Palestine. [further reading].
Two skeletons, a woman clutching a child to her breast, preserved in a mudflow in Tibet for 4000 years.
Severe drought conditions at Dinosaur Valley State Park, about 60 miles southwest of Fort Worth, exposed dinosaur tracks from around 113 million years ago that were previously hidden underneath the Paluxy River, according to Stephanie Garcia, a spokeswoman for the Texas Parks and Wildlife Department. The tracks, which were discovered this month, belong to Acrocanthosaurus, which are theropods, or bipedal dinosaurs with three toes and claws on each limb.
The dinosaur would have stood 15 feet tall and weighed close to seven tons as an adult.
April Rubin for the New York Times
Skeleton Dance Costume
Date: late 19th or early 20th century
Culture: Tibet
Medium: Silk, flannel
The Met
A FRAGMENTARY ROMAN BRONZE CAVALRY PARADE HELMET MASK, CIRCA LATE 2ND CENTURY A.D.
Probably depicting an Amazon, with outlined lip and finely incised diagonally striated lower lashes and chevron-patterned upper lashes, fragmentary iris rings in the eye sockets, a tongue pattern framing the forehead and temples and centering a small shell, the hair flowing in two rows of thick wavy curls down the side.
Height 14.5 cm.; width 18.3 cm.
