Battle of Kadesh
Relief depicting king Ramesses II smiting his Hittite foes, ca. 1274 BC, detail of a wall carving inside his Great Temple at Abu Simbel, Lower Nubia.
That’s one lazy horse
This horse reminds me that it’s ok to take time out for yourself once in a while. Enjoy the food.
Blue glass palette
Blue, one side royal person, crown and uraeus, wearing short kilt. Left hand grasps hair of 3 enemies, right a weapon. Above the king, head of lion or lioness. Reverse, man carrying ducks over shoulder.
From Sheikh Abd el-Qurna, West Thebes. New Kingdom, ca. 1550-1070 BC. Now in the Oriental Institute of Chicago.
To have time was at once the most magnificent and the most dangerous of experiments. Idleness is fatal only to the mediocre.
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| — | Albert Camus, A Happy Death (via philosophybits) |
