Ancient Civilizations
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Kingdom of Dongola/Makuria (Nubia) 590 – 1314 AD The Kingdom of Dongola was located within the present day southern Egypt and northern Sudan, the dominion was best referred to as...
Romans, generally speaking. Parthians will also work in a pinch. https://t.co/8stCDN34So
My guides: We will now reveal the biggest secret of the Atlantean (ancient Egyptian) pyramids. As explained in our previous threads, a pyramid crystal can serve as an infinite pass...
NINE: The Ennead 🧵 Nine is the Unsurpassable Limit, the utmost bound, the ultimate extension to which the archetypal principles of number can reach and manifest themselves in the...
The Roman Army in the Second to Fourth Centuries! https://t.co/bv5frXAZzs
1/ One of the first communities to recover after the Mycenaean collapse was Lefkandi in the southern Euboean Gulf, restoring trade relations with other parts of the Aegean and Cypr...
I'll start with documented history. Ptolemy XV was born in 47 BCE to Greco-Egyptian Pharoah Cleopatra and Roman dictator Julius Caesar. After the assassination of Julius, Cleopatra...
Read a great Reddit thread putting historical dates in perspective. Here are 8 gems. 1/ The moon landing was only 66 years after the Wright Brothers first flight (1903-1969). W...
Know Your Ancient Chinese Battles, Part 2: The Battle of Yao Hills (627 BC) Why is it important? For hundreds of years it was the quintessential example of strategic overreach di...
The dual triumphs of the Greeks at Himera in Sicily and Salamis in Greece in 480 BC checked Carthage & Persia. The rest of the century saw the Greeks of Syracuse breaking Etruscan...
Vimanas Flying Machines In the Hindu texts Vimanika Shastra where it is stated that the Hindu Vimanas had the capacity to fly with a great speed through the terrestrial atmosphere...
Why did Carthage deserve to be burned to the ground you may ask? Why were their men killed, their women sold to the far corners from f the republic in slavery, and their texts burn...
Opening the Way: the beginning of the journey into the Underworld. [THREAD] https://t.co/zwFLnbNFij
8 Great Warrior Kings and their Dynasties of Ancient Bharat everyone must know about ! 1. Ajatasatru (512-461 BCE) Haryanka Emperor https://t.co/bsyKhGK2lK
Five of the most important techniques found in ancient Egyptian texts through which magic was applied were: - Invoking the First Time - Identifying with Gods - Confronting Demons/i...
1/ One of the most interesting themes of the LBA in the Eastern Mediterranean is the relations of the Mycenaean Aegean with the Hittites. Hittite texts provide us with some interes...
On Nun, the primordial watery abyss of unrealized potentiality for existence. [THREAD] As one Pyramid Text puts it, Nun exists “before the sky existed, before the earth existed, b...
"Many ancient peoples, notably the Hindus & Scandinavians, regarded the Macrocosm or Grand Universe, as a divine tree growing from a single seed sown in space. The Greeks, Persians...
1/The Ancient Greeks were distinguished according to the dialect they spoke into four important tribes: the Aeolians, the Ionians, the Arcadocypriots (Achaeans) and the Dorians,whi...
What do you think about when you envision the largest naval battles in history? Battleships? Aircraft carriers? What if I told you one of the largest naval battles in history by...
1/ The polity of tyranny was a particularly widespread phenomenon within the ancient Greek world, especially during the Archaic Era, being an exclusively local creation, without an...
Was the Byzantine Empire really just the Roman Empire? In a word, yes. In this thread, I explore some arguments for and against that answer, as well as alternatives to the use of t...
Pitris, Pater, Padre, Father, OH MY! (A 🧵) The Universal Æther was not, in the eyes of the ancients, simply a tenantless something, stretching throughout the expanse of heaven; it...
Built 12,000 years ago in the Age of Leo, the Era that Plato dates as the destruction of Atlantis Sea Levels rapidly rose as the North American ice cap suddenly melted Gobekli Te...
