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Poisonous Mushrooms, Victorian Botanical Illustration

Very Rare, Beautifully Illustrated Antique Engraved Victorian Botanical Illustration of Poisonous Mushrooms: Plate 9, from The Book of Practical Botany in Word and Image (Lehrbuch der praktischen Pflanzenkunde in Wort und Bild), Published in 1886. Copyright has expired on this artwork. Digitally restored

© Craig McCausland

Pandora opens the box - Greek mythology

Pandora was the first human female created by the Greek gods. She was intensely curious about the contents of a box (or storage jar, depending on the translation) and when she opened it, greed, envy, hatred, pain, disease, hunger, poverty, war and death escaped, causing misery and chaos. All that was left was hope

© Digitally restored by Linda Steward - Linda Steward

Ancient egyptian hieroglyph of major goddess Isis

Ancient egyptian hieroglyph of major goddess Isis
Isis was a major goddess in ancient Egyptian religion whose worship spread throughout the Greco-Roman world. She was believed to help the dead enter the afterlife as she had helped Osiris, and she was considered the divine mother of the pharaoh, who was likened to Horus.
Original edition from my own archives
Source : Bilder-Atlas - Ikonographische Encyklopadie 1870

© Ralf Hettler