HUMANOID HISTORY

Turkish hepcats will never forget Istanbul's anti-jazz ordinance of 1984.

(Fortepan)

The Colossi of Memnon at the Necropolis of Thebes, Egypt.

(Library of Congress)

Paul Wenzel, 1961.

Bronze helmet, Corinthian style Greece, late 6th century BCE.

(Metropolitan Museum)

From the 1980 Hanna-Barbera filmstrip The Scooby-Doo Gang and the Gang in Skin Deep.

(Pop Culture Precursors)

"The Golden Man." Kelly Freas illustration for Worlds of If, April 1954.

Panel from the Star Wars Sunday comic strip by Russ Manning, 1979.

I made a readable version for Instagram.

The Colossi of Memnon, flooded by the Nile, at the Necropolis of Thebes, Egypt. 1965. Photo by Eliot Elisofon.

Behind the scenes at Motorola in Texas, February 20, 1979. Photos by Dewey G. Mears.

Mars Attacks card by Topps, 1962.

Satellite antennas for WBAP radio in Fort Worth, 1973.

High-voltage lab in Uppsala, Sweden, 1938.

Poster for Queen's News of the World, 1977. Art by Kelly Freas.

John Berkey, 1998.

Chalcidian helmet, made in southern Italan, 350-300 B.C.

(Getty)

Studying, watching TV, and generally hanging out in the the Ell Student Center Lounge at Northeastern University, 1965.