Cool Pictures 12: "Every picture tells a story!"

[Chicken Pizza]

Gin Rummy.

 

[Birdjaguar]

Gin Rummy.

welcome to off topic!

 

[Samson]

Archaeologists have discovered the world’s oldest known cave painting: a life-sized picture of a wild pig that was made at least 45,500 years ago in Indonesia.
Measuring 136 by 54 centimetres (53 by 21 inches) the Sulawesi warty pig was painted using dark red ochre pigment and has a short crest of upright hair, as well as a pair of horn-like facial warts characteristic of the species’ adult males.

Spoiler The cave where it was found looks quite cool too :

The Leang Tedongnge cave is located in a remote valley enclosed by sheer limestone cliffs, about an hour’s walk from the nearest road

 

[Birdjaguar]

If you put the head of the critter at the other end, it looks like a bird pecking the ground. That’s what I first saw. It may be the first pig pic, but it also may be the first optical illusion picture too!

 

[Kyriakos]

Archaeologists have discovered the world’s oldest known cave painting: a life-sized picture of a wild pig that was made at least 45,500 years ago in Indonesia.
Measuring 136 by 54 centimetres (53 by 21 inches) the Sulawesi warty pig was painted using dark red ochre pigment and has a short crest of upright hair, as well as a pair of horn-like facial warts characteristic of the species’ adult males.

Spoiler The cave where it was found looks quite cool too :

The Leang Tedongnge cave is located in a remote valley enclosed by sheer limestone cliffs, about an hour’s walk from the nearest road

The boar Celebes still looks more realistic than the Elephant Celebes:

 

[Ferocitus]

4pm: Buy dinner ingredients, and one of those herb vape thingies.
Time and an impeachment bill passed.
2am: Alien Baked Potato Invasion! (The one-eyed guy at the far left is Colonel Tigh.)

 

[Birdjaguar]

The one in the center has a mote in his eye.

 

[shadowplay]

 

[Birdjaguar]

 

[tjs282]

Paging @hobbsyoyo ...

 

[Kyriakos]

Not sure what is being whispered to the ear of the byzantine dragon by Austria-Hungary.

 

[Kyriakos]

Here's Dionysos too:

 

[Samson]

Are those mosaics? Beautiful either way, incredible if they are.

 

[Kyriakos]

Are those mosaics? Beautiful either way, incredible if they are.

Yes, and afaik the first one is byzantine, the second hellenistic.

 

[Samson]

So that leopard is made of little bits of stone stuck together to make a floor more than 2000 years ago. Incredible doesn't quite do it justice.

 

[Sommerswerd]

Here's Dionysos too:

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Where's his wine? I was promised he always packed wine.

 

[Arakhor]

Dionysus once seized control of a ship simply by summoning vines to wrap around the masts and drug the air with the soporific scent of strong wine. He didn't need to pack wine.

 

[Cutlass]

The one in the center has a mote in his eye.

Is he god?

 

[Ferocitus]

The one in the center has a mote in his eye.

That's Crazy Eddie.

 

[Kyriakos]

Are those mosaics? Beautiful either way, incredible if they are.

Various mosaics of Dionysos with tigers/mandrakes/androphagoi are cool.

At Dion (the "Delphoi" of northern Greece)

Certainly looks like a god there


This is a famous one, found at Pella (royal Macedonian tomb)