Thursday, August 09, 2012

2500 year old Persian Painting resembles Hastings Tapestry

Browsing the internet, I came across an article, that showed Persian-empire wall paintings from 470 BC, that I immediately noticed bore a striking resemblance to the Bayeux tapestry .

A quote from the article:

"LONDON, (CAIS) -- the Achaemenid tomb chamber, one of the finest examples of the ancient Iranian art of wood painting that survived to the present day, was on show ...This magnificent work of Iranian art offers important insights into the life styles and beliefs of the Persian Anatolia during the Achaemenid Dynasty in 5th century B.C.E. The unique tomb chamber built around 470 B.C.E. for a Persian noble-warrior has remained intact for nearly twenty five centuries (http://www.cais-soas.com/News/2010/december2010/04-12.htm).

Some links to photos of the paintings:
http://www.cais-soas.com/CAIS/Images2/Achaemenid/Painting/Reconstructed_Achaemenid_painting_beam3WM.png

http://www.cais-soas.com/CAIS/Images2/Achaemenid/Painting/Reconstructed_Achaemenid_painting_beam1WM.png
http://www.cais-soas.com/CAIS/Images2/Achaemenid/Painting/Reconstructed_Achaemenid_painting_beamWM.jpg
The dimensions of the timber-lined tomb chamber are reported to be 2.50 m x 2 m in length and width and 1.85 m in height...the beam with the battle frieze is 221 cm long (7' 2") and 32 cm (12") high... [length 7.2 x height]

( http://books.google.com/books?id=FNLsjZuatMsC&pg=PA4&lpg=PA4&dq=tatarli+paintings+dimensions&source=bl&ots=uzIQ2HiQj0&sig=O6cecUStW6T-gmccfx8uO2gv1wU&hl=en&sa=X&ei=v5sjUIX3L4Tm0QHhzID4CQ&ved=0CFAQ6AEwBQ#v=onepage&q=tatarli%20paintings%20dimensions&f=false )

The Bayeux tapestry is also long and narrow like a roll of film: "68.38 metres long and 0.5 metres wide (224.3 × 1.6 ft) [length 140 x height] -- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bayeux_Tapestry

The Persian Achaemenid Empire is the greatest empire of all time, in terms of percent of world's population subjugated (they got 45%; in terms of today's world population, they would be ruling over 3.1 billion people). The British empire is the greatest empire of all time, in terms of land area (like a box 3.6K miles high and 3.6K miles wide).

Empires of All-Time By percent of world population:

1 Achaemenid Empire 44.5% (50.0 million out of 112.4 million in 480 BC)
2 Mauryan 43.30% (68.0 million out of 150 million in the 2nd century BC)
3 quing 36.60% (381.0 million out of 1.041 billion in 1820)...
? British 20.00% (458 million out of 2.295 billion in 1938)

Empires of All-Time By By land area
1 British empire, 13 million sq miles,
...15 achaemenid 3.1 mill square miles,

See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_largest_empires

The London Olympics over the past week have been like a battle between the Persians and the British empire.

Poem noting such to be the case

-- David Virgil

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