🏺🪨 Before modern artillery, soldiers used lead sling bullets to defend cities like Antiochia Hippos.

This recently discovered projectile is unique because it features a mocking command – mathou – telling the target to "learn their lesson."

👉 https://www.popsci.com/science/ancient-sling-bullet-insult/

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✨Cyrene ✨

This #MosaicMonday we celebrate the princess Cyrene who leant her name to the Greek colony in Libya. In myth she is known as the daughter of Hypseus, king of the Lapiths and the Naiad Chlidanope. Her sons by Apollo were Aristaeus and Idmon. Aristaeus sounds like the kind of god we’d love to met as he was the god of animal husbandry, bee-keeping and cheese making. Idmon became a famed seer. Cyrene herself was famous as a huntress, and reputedly called ‘lionkiller’, and was at times a companion of Artemis.

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