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[EGYPT 29550] 'Good wind from the South at Dendera.' Representing the south wind, a ram-headed creature with double outstretched wings, holding a little sail and the 'ankh' sign of life, can be found on the astronomical ceiling in the outer hypostyle hall of the Hathor Temple at Dendera. The ceiling consists of seven separate strips but here we are looking at the southern end of the upper register of the SECOND STRIP EAST from centre. A caption near the head of the wind figure proclaims...

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Neolithic Pictish orb discovered in northeast Scotland

Special Stone Artifacts, Skara Brae, Orkney, Scotland (c.3100-2300 B.C.) - these carved stone balls and maceheads were not workaday utilitarian artefacts and may have had a special, ceremonial, significance as symbols of power during the Mid to Late Neolithic.

Pictish Symbol Stone, Aberlemno, Angus, Scotland by Ljotulfson, via Flickr

Dun Carloway Broch, Shots, Scotland. @historicscotland.

Menhir du Champ-Dolent, Dol-de-Bretagne, France. Over 200,000 pounds it measures nearly 10 meters high above ground and about 5 meters below ground placed on bedrock. Age: Neolithic Period. Thousands of these megalithic structures have been placed all around the world and many still stand.

Gold-band mosaic glass alabastron (perfume bottle) Hellenistic, 1st century B.C. Greek, Eastern Mediterranean