The 30,000-Year-Old Cave That Descends Into Hell
There’s a cave in France where no humans have been in 26,000 years. The walls are full of fantastic, perfectly-preserved paintings of animals, ending in a chamber full of monsters 1312-feet underground, where CO2 and radon gas concentrations provoke hallucinations.
It’s called the the Chauvet-Pont-d’Arc Cave, a really weird and mysterious place. The walls contain hundreds of animals—like the typical Paleolithic horses and bisons—but some of them are not supposed to be there, like lions, panthers, rhinos and hyenas.
A few are not even supposed to exist, like weird butterflyish animals or chimerical figures half bison half woman. These may be linked to the hallucinations. The trip is such that some archeologists think that it had a ritual nature, with people transcending into a new state as they descended into the final room.
In fact, the paintings themselves are of such sophistication—some even have three-dimensional relief—that is hard to believe they were made back then. However, radiocarbon dating shows that these paintings are indeed prehistoric: A group was made around 27,000-26,000 years ago and the other at 32,000-30,000 years ago.
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A Dormouse appears to be laughing as it sits on top of a yarrow flower. The amusing photograph, taken by Italian photographer Andrea Zampatti, in Italy, shows how the heat had a strange effect on this little critter. Photograph: Andrea Zampatti/HotSpot Media
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Totentanz (Dance of Death), illustration by Michael Wolgemut from Liber Chronicarum, known as the Nuremberg Chronicle by Hartmann Schedel 1493
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“If sweet, sweet God loves you so, then I will make you worthy of his love.”
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I’m so bored and tired! And I still have so many works to do! D: SAVE MEEE!!!
Still elves they were and remain, and that is Good People
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John Atkinson Grimshaw (1836-1893) was a Victorian-era painter, notable for his moonlit scenes and landscapes.
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Why I think my dad’s a hunter
He “works” with guys named Sam, Dean and Crowley
He has a really huge “hockey bag” that we’re not allowed to look in
We have an outrageous amount of salt in the basement
(that’s just the start, there’s more in the garage)
He also really likes his leather jacket.
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