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From Ancient Graffiti to Modern Street Art: Our Need for Self Expression Through Time
Update! This post was originally published on December 12, 2012. The post below explores humanity’s fascinating obsession with leaving our mark. Graffiti has been with us since before recorded history. It provides an incredible wealth of information about who we … Continue reading
Posted in Art, Blog, Communications, Culture, Public Life
Tagged ancient graffiti, ancient history, AntiquityNOW, communication, graffiti, history, Maeshowe, Pompeii, social media, Viking graffiti
Graffiti From Ancient to Modern Times: Memorialization, Human Expression and the Art That Will Not Die
Graffiti has been around since time immemorial. From ancient caves to carved mountainsides to splendiferous murals, pictures have been splashed and carved on walls and surfaces throughout time and across cultures. Self-expression, political agitation, vendettas, advertisements—all reasons for some to … Continue reading
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Tagged ancient graffiti, ancient history, Ancient Origins, AntiquityNOW, education, Lincolnshire, medieval graffiti
Ancient Graffiti: From Pompeii to Smyrna
We’ve talked a lot about ancient graffiti in our blog posts and it has always been about the ancient Roman city of Pompeii. In “Wall Posts: Putting Pompeii’s Political Graffiti in a Modern Context” we discussed how politicians campaigned using graffiti … Continue reading
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Tagged agora, ancient history, AntiquityNOW, graffiti, Greek, Izmir, Pompeii, Smyrna
Wall Posts: Putting Pompeii’s Political Graffiti in a Modern Context
Do you instantly share your amazing dinner on Instagram? Post about your political opinion on Facebook? Find a liked-minded community through LinkedIn? Perhaps our ancestors had similar feelings about their social networking systems. While part of online social networking is creating … Continue reading
Posted in Art, Blog, Communications, Culture, Politics, Public Life
Tagged ancient history, AntiquityNOW, graffiti, history, politics, Pompeii, social media
Summer Reading Recap: Greece
For those of you returning to school this September, today we’re bringing you up to speed on ancient Greece. Make sure you’re the first one to raise your hand this year when the teacher says, “Where is the birthplace of … Continue reading
Posted in Blog, Education, Public Life
Tagged Ancient Greece, ancient history, AntiquityNOW, back to school, Greek history, social studies, summer reading
Summer Reading Recap: Rome
Summer is winding down and kids are heading back to school. There are supplies to organize, bags to pack and school clothes to buy. But you also want to make sure they are ready to reboot from a long summer. … Continue reading
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Tagged ancient history, ancient recipes, Ancient Rome, AntiquityNOW, back to school, history, Roman Empire, Roman history, Rome, social studies, summer reading
How Advertising Helped Write History, Part 1
Imagine standing in the dead center of Times Square. Aggressive flashing lights, pulses, and neon words play tug-o-war for your attention. Inviting music oozes from the glare of what seems like a thousand restaurants as errant street vendors grapple to … Continue reading
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Tagged ancient advertising, ancient history, ancient marketing, AntiquityNOW, Common Sense, New World, Thomas Paine
Strata: Portraits of Humanity, Episode 5, “Archaeology in 12 Minutes” and “Photographing the Invisible”
Episode 5 of the new documentary series Strata: Portraits of Humanity, produced by AntiquityNOW’s partner, Archaeological Legacy Institute, is a two-part episode 1) illustrating the history of archaeology and 2) demonstrating one of the technologies used today to recover the … Continue reading
Posted in Architecture, Art, Blog, Computer Technology, Culture, Education, Public Life, Science and Technology, Strata Curricula
Tagged ancient history, AntiquityNOW, Archaeological Legacy Institute, archaeology and photography, archaeology curricula, free lesson plan, Strata Portraits of Humanity, The Archaeology Channel
Picture This! Ten Mysterious Examples of Rock Art from the Ancient World
More than 6,000 years ago people were telling stories, but not with words. They captured their lives in pictures on the walls of caves and other rock surfaces. This was a preliterate time of human existence, or a time before … Continue reading
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Tagged ancient communications, ancient history, Ancient Origins, AntiquityNOW, pictograms, pictorgraphs, rock art, social studies
KIDS’ BLOG! Picture This: Pictograms and Petroglyphs and the Stories They Tell
Update! This post was originally published on July 23rd, 2013. In the post below we explore the ancient history of rock art and how we’re still using pictograms to communicate today. Recently, ancient petroglyphs have been back in the news … Continue reading
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