“Death blowing bubbles,” 18th century. The bubbles symbolize life's fragility. This plaster work appears on the ceiling of Holy Grave Chapel in Michaelsberg Abbey, Bamberg, Germany. After the monastery’s dissolution in 1803, the buildings were used as the city's hospital.
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Israeli Archaeologists Find First Whole Sentence Written in Canaanite. On a Lice Comb - Archaeology - https://www.haaretz.com/archaeology/2022-11-09/ty-article/israeli-archaeologists-find-first-whole-sentence-written-in-canaanite-on-a-lice-comb/00000184-56c1-dc83-a7fd-fef3777f0000
'This one bears the earliest sentence ever found in Israel, seven words in the world’s first alphabet, archaic proto-Canaanite: “May this tusk root out the lice of the hair and the beard.”'