Il Baarde

[DaVinci @BiancoDavinci]

Sniffing Art

[DaVinci @BiancoDavinci]

when salvador dali made surrealist jewelry.

[DaVinci @BiancoDavinci]

Old traditional clothing worn by women in the Azores.

These garments were worn until the 1930s by women living on the Azores, Portuguese islands in the middle of the Atlantic Ocean.

[James Lucas @JamesLucasIT]

For more than a hundred years, the best codebreakers in the world have tried to read this book.

Not one of them has deciphered a single word of it...

It is called the Voynich Manuscript, and it sits today in the Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library at Yale. It is about 240 pages of calfskin vellum, written in a script that runs left to right across the page. A script that appears in no other document anywhere on earth, and that no one has ever been able to translate.

The first instinct is to assume it is a hoax, but the evidence makes that hard to believe. In 2009, the University of Arizona carbon-dated the vellum to between 1404 and 1438. Analysis of the inks and pigments confirmed they were materials genuinely in use at that time. This is not a modern forgery. Someone really did sit down six hundred years ago and fill these pages, by hand, in a language that has never been identified.

And the writing behaves like a real language. Computer analysis has shown that the text follows consistent internal rules: certain words appear far more often than others, symbols cluster in regular patterns, and the structure shows the statistical fingerprints of natural human language rather than random scribbling. Whoever wrote it was following a system. We simply have no idea what the system means...

The illustrations only deepen the mystery. The pages are full of drawings of plants that match no known species on earth, astronomical and astrological charts, and strange diagrams of naked women bathing in interconnected green pools. It looks like a manual for a world that does not exist.

The people who have failed to crack it are not amateurs. Professional cryptographers have tried for over a century. So did expert codebreakers of the United States military, the same kind of minds that broke enemy ciphers in two world wars. The manuscript defeated all of them. To this day, not one sentence, not one word, has been definitively read.

We can date the ink. We can name the pigments. We can map the patterns in the text with a computer. We have done everything to this book except the one thing it was made for: we cannot read it.

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[Archaeology & Art @archaeologyart]

A group of Tibetan herders play a game of billiards as a flock of goats and horses graze on the pasture above them near Xiangpi mountain, China, 1999 - by Natalie Behring, American

[Fred @hustle_fred]

stuck under 100 followers for months?...

I was there too, posting into the void

so I made an app that analyzes what's working in your niche and drafts posts with your voice and context

growing consistently now

[El Club del Arte 🎨📷📚🖼🕍🎼 @Arteymas_]

Así se ve el mercado navideño de la Piazza Navona de Roma, visto desde una ventana al atardecer.

El tiovivo gira y los puestos se iluminan.

Un tradición de cientos de años…

[𝔻𝕆ℝ𝕀𝔸ℕ 𝔾ℝ𝔸𝕐 ™🇮🇹 𝕏 🧱🗿 ✠ @FantomasRitorna]

Tantissimi buoni motivi per non votare la sinistra marcia

[Muse @xmuse_]

This Madrid antique café is a visual fever dream. James Tweed 🇪🇸

[Muse @xmuse_]

Oh WOW! This is a whole new level!!

What looks like delicate Murano glass is actually pure edible magic!

Blown isomalt sugar crafted by the insanely talented French sugar artist Arnaud Filbet.

Just... wow!!

Who else thought it was real glass at first?

[Sophia @SophiaFioren]

Dagger (Jambiya) with Sheath, Yemen, 1800.

[Ugo Ramella @RamellaUgo]

"...voce senza parole canta il mare L'uomo è lontano qui dove tu canti"
Salvatore Quasimodo
Buonanotte

[Ceramichecaltagirone @ceramicacaltag]

Testa di Moro Ceramica Siciliana Caltagirone Donna
Finitura Foglia Oro
Dimensioni: L 25 cm x H 50 cm
Firmato a fuoco
790,00 €

Moorish Head Sicilian Ceramics Caltagirone Lady
Decoration: Teal Green
Gold leaf finish
Dimensions: L 25 cm x H 50 cTesta di Moro Ceramica Siciliana Caltagirone Donna
Finitura Foglia Oro
Dimensioni: L 25 cm x H 50 cm
Firmato a fuoco
790,00 €

Moorish Head Sicilian Ceramics Caltagirone Lady
Decoration: Teal Green
Gold leaf finish
Dimensions: L 25 cm x H 50 cTesta di Moro Ceramica Siciliana Caltagirone Donna
Finitura Foglia Oro
Dimensioni: L 25 cm x H 50 cm
Firmato a fuoco
790,00 €

Moorish Head Sicilian Ceramics Caltagirone Lady
Decoration: Teal Green
Gold leaf finish
Dimensions: L 25 cm x H 50 cTesta di Moro Ceramica Siciliana Caltagirone Donna
Finitura Foglia Oro
Dimensioni: L 25 cm x H 50 cm
Firmato a fuoco
790,00 €

Moorish Head Sicilian Ceramics Caltagirone Lady
Decoration: Teal Green
Gold leaf finish
Dimensions: L 25 cm x H 50 cm

[Il Baarde @desimonem]

Erri De Luca, il sionismo e la minaccia di bruciare i suoi libri, Concia: “La sinistra italiana non ammette il dissenso, la gente è assetata di odio” https://t.co/siNCqi7iKx

[Il Baarde @desimonem]

Motore a idrogeno tedesco oltre il 60% di efficienza: ecco perché batte il diesel sul suo terreno https://t.co/Qoxgyq1YrJ

[Il Baarde @desimonem]

Brado Carbon Buggy, il ritorno della guida analogica made in Italy https://t.co/t9xjEwdeLJ

[Il Baarde @desimonem]

Hanno insultato l'Italia e ho detto: "Se non vi va bene tornate al vostro Paese". Ecco chi è “Nonna Patria”, 82enne che ha sfidato i Pro Pal https://t.co/uNYS7wDmp4

[The Late Greats Club @lategreatsclub]

Another book about Caesar! Three of us ruled Rome as the First Triumvirate: Caesar, Pompey, and me. I was the richest, and my money paid the debts that made him. He took the glory, Pompey the statues, and I a grave in the Parthian sand. They made his name mean "emperor." But I was the one who paid for it.

Marcus Licinius Crassus, member since 53 BC

[Muse @xmuse_]

🚨 Hidden gem alert

Chapel of Agios Stefanos, carved straight into the cliffs of Galissas, Syros.

One of my favorite chapels in Greece.

Tiny and absolutely magical 🇬🇷

[Il Baarde @desimonem]

Da miliardario a sacerdote, la parabola di Scott Borba: «Provavo a trasformare tutti in una piccola Kardashian, mi pento. Dio ci rende belli» https://t.co/JWkjp3jg2I