by Art of Counting | Tacky Tourists
Our ongoing series of tourists doing or wearing, shall we say…interesting things. Some will make you guffaw, some will make you a touch ill, and some will make you want to wander around with a crop and smack some of these people. This particular lady was...
by Art of Counting | Results
What different messages were intended by the color choices of pharaoh’s various lappet wigs? These distinctive wigs, which appear in numerous variations, were adorned with a spectrum of colors–not only black, like the wigs worn by the king’s...
by Art of Counting | Methods
New analysis of the ‘mystery’ equis found in 2004 at Pompeii reveals that the initial data was corrupted. The find and the subsequent DNA analysis generated much excitement about a previously unknown extinct breed of horse, but upon reexamination it was...
by Art of Counting | Tacky Tourists
Our ongoing series of tourists wearing or doing, shall we say…interesting things. Some will make you titter, some will give you a jarring shock, and others will encourage you to go around putting guardrails around everything, since those unambiguous indicators...
by Art of Counting | Tacky Tourists
Our ongoing series of tourists wearing or doing, shall we say…interesting things. Some will make you snicker, some will make you wail, and others will just frustrate you with their short-sighted and insensitive nature. This one may not seem so bad when you...
by Art of Counting | Results
While we may know what a lappet wig is, what does it mean? Among the headgear worn by the pharaohs of the New Kingdom is a particular wig that is short in the back and longer at the sides. This wig appears in a variety of configurations and shapes; some have long...
by Art of Counting | Inspiration
Check out this bunch of awesome and horrifying images found in art through the ages, collected on the Chicago Art blog. Just the thing to get you into the Halloween...
by Art of Counting | Tacky Tourists
Our ongoing series of tourists doing or wearing, shall we say…interesting things. Some will horrify you, some will elicit a belly laugh, and some will make you roll your eyes and wish you had control over who can gain access to ancient sites. This one shows a...
by Art of Counting | Cross Training
A collaborative effort by military scientists and entomologists has uncovered the reason(s) behind the mysterious and troubling disappearance of honeybee colonies. Since 2006, 20 to 40 percent of the bee colonies in the United States alone have suffered “colony...
by Art of Counting | Methods
A number of people have responded to the red looped sash discussion with a very important question: how, and why, did I choose the looped sash to investigate? The answer is quite simple: the data led me there. This is the fundamental principle of the Art of Counting...
