This was just discovered in 2020! The canvas is the wall of a cliff.

So, who tried to see theirs by lifting their pinky?

Wow, that's an amazing ring!

...I need time to process ALL those facts. Mammoth, mammoth bones, 149 mammoth bones, 15000 years old, constructed by pre-historic men. Okay, just processing it.

Now that's what you call a real MAN CAVE!!!!

But but but the Earth is only 10000 years old! These were made by an evil group of scientists who work for the devil. Before you go nuts on me know it’s a joke people.

Jean Auel (Clan of the Cave Bear etc...) must have known this in writing her books.

ice age material :)

Wow! Imagine the energy needed to bring down a mammoth of that size using the primitive tools at the time

It's Flintstones AF

Prehistoric humans, perhaps?

Love the door frame! Looks very sturdy too.

Back when they made things to last! Imagine all the stories it could tell!

Poor mammoths 🥺

Perhaps a regeneration of mammoth bones would enhance today's bui8lders.

another reason the ice age animals went extinct... humans helping them right along.. as now..

Mammoths have more than one bone.

That's the kind of hut my man would've built for me 😁

Game of Thrones AF

Engineering genius

My kingdom for some Febreeze

And women.

I wonder if they use anything to 'plug' the gaps the bones must have

Prehistoric man 15000 yes agovrealized arches were the strongest structures. Interesting

wow...

Hard worker... I like how he's non-specific about the kind of woman he's looking for. I think he might have done it. Hope he found himself a lovely "person of the female persuasion" to spend his life with.

Is there a sculptor alive today that could create something like this? Using the same tools??..

With the helmet it looks like an alien

That's extremely impressive!!!!

What about Salisbury Cathedral! Made in 1386 and still ticking!

Makes me feel puny.... I mean, build something good, with natural materials, with a simple good function, and it outlives many...

They were experts at skull surgery, lots of successful trepanning examples as well (well-healed edges to the hole in the skull, proving that the patient lived long after the procedure).

wow, how on earth has this survived so well?

I can’t understand how people can be that skilled

Beautiful!

Nike could never!

This is for the people who pretend to be educated while complaining about “diversity” in media or books set in the past. We used to travel much more than we think and while we weren’t as diverse as now, things were not as simple as old media portrays. For example there were black citizens in medieval- renaissance Europe, mostly ex slaves or their descendants from AlAndalus (Arabian country in the Iberian peninsula). Some quite successful, Like Juan de Pareja (Velazquez’s servant and later apprentice).

Cerberus est canis @the house of the tragic poet, one of the many amazing mosaics at that home.

Even Japanese of old, loved hentai! 🐙

Of course the British Museum would have it... oof

Googled it: The researchers report in this week's Nature that the two major components, each making up about 40% of the total, were starch and animal fat, which probably came from the carcass of a cow or goat. They think the starch was added to reduce the greasy feeling of fat on the skin. It is still used for the same purpose today in body lotions and hand creams. The remaining ingredient was synthetic tin oxide (or cassiterite). Although it is greyish in its natural state, it would have coloured the cream white"

interlocking stones make for a stronger structure

That is the sassiest skeleton I have ever seen. It’s giving me full on Nightmare Before Christmas fabulousness.

Not a nice topic but incredible skill in sculpting.

Incredible detail