Archaeology
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Have you ever heard about Arikamedu? This ancient Indo-Roman trading port was once a thriving center of global commerce, connecting India to the Mediterranean. Today, it’s a ruin...
A startling number of new archaeological finds support the Bible story. Here's a thread of discoveries that rewrote history. Starting with something astonishing found in this sma...
The History of the Arabia : How Neolithic Arabia Influenced Modern World History. #part1 #Khaled_homoud_AlShareef https://t.co/EPuwRydAUj
Barbarikon: a lost Roman-era port city in modern-day Pakistan - a thread: https://t.co/RNCwWGU5Yw
The Indus and Saraswati river valleys of Bharatvarsha (present India and Pakistan) were the home to the ancient civilization of Indus-Saraswati. 1/5 https://t.co/09rl54kDnm
#Thread Horse rock art from Chaturbhuj Nala caves Bhanpura, Pahadpur caves, Panchmadhi caves and caves from other parts of India. The caves conservatively dates between 20,000-4000...
[PART TWO] THE CASE OF OPEN-AIR SETTLEMENT OF MAROULAS IN KYTHNOS AND ITS IMPORTANCE FOR THE INTERPRETATION OF THE AEGEAN MESOLITHIC. https://t.co/PdUCPM5IZE
“Much native scholarly output on Dacia during the communist period was rooted in the thesis whereby somehow, the Dacians were an ancient super-race that actually gave the Romans th...
9 th century Ganesh and Shiva temple found in Candi Kimpulan, Indonesia. The temple is combination of twin platforms called primary and secondary. #Archaeology #1 https://t.co/rF6...
[PART ONE] FROM THE UPPER PALAEOLITHIC TO THE MESOLITHIC: FIRST INDICATIONS OF THE APPROPRIATION OF HABITATION SITES AND PRE-DOMESTICATION OF WILD ANIMALS - THE CASES OF FRANCHTHI...
1 Any Hindu visiting Khwaja Moinuddin Chisti’s Dargah at Ajmer is actually celebrating the desecration & destruction of an ancient Mahadeva temple. Not just the tomb, but in fact t...
1/Our story begins shortly after the famous battle of Qadesh, when the Hittite Great King Muwatalli II dies leaving the throne, at his will, to his son, Urhi-Teshub, who adopted th...
⚜️Everyone now knows that the Moorthis of Ramlala and Janaki Mata in the Ayodhya Ram Mandir will be carved from the Shaligram stone, for which two Shila (Rocks) weighing 14 and 26...
Researchers offered new insight into the Hittite collapse in Anatolia, with an examination of trees alive at the time showing three consecutive years of severe drought that may hav...
Lanka or Sri Lanka? The historical geography of the Ramayana text is extremely problematic. Most historians and archaeologists believe that mythical Lanka and Sri Lanka are two dif...
The Okunevo had a rather complex ancestry for their time with the IE Afanasievo from Yamnaya, the Baikal Early neolithic type, another Altai contribution with ANE& Paleosiberian. T...
The Murugan Temple at Saluvankuppam, Tamil Nadu, India, was exposed in 2005 tsunami. It consists of two layers: a brick temple constructed during the Sangam period (the 3rd century...
Coin of Barha Tegin, also known as Sri Ranasrikari, founder of the Turk Shahi dyansty. After the Arab conquest of Kabul, Barha Tegin, who was the ruler of Zabulistan, allied with t...
Statue of Darius the Great Carved in Egypt, later erected near the Great Gate of the royal palace in Susa, discovered in 1972 ⤵️ https://t.co/IaNOWasMwQ
10 Ancient Shivlinga found across the World 1. Vietnam https://t.co/10DCyGDI4E
The late Littauer had remarked in her landmark review of chariot petroglyphs: "One cannot help wondering if, no matter what other ends it may eventually have served, this type of r...
I want to talk a bit about this excellent essay by @BelovedOfOizys (https://t.co/UtKEMkomta) which is focused on some of the problem of classics and archaeology public engagement b...
1 of the enduring mysteries of Bronze Age Mongolia is the Bayan Olgy complex with humanoid figures with insect antennae & wings(?) While its genetics emains unknown to me Sintashta...
Parthenon's many lives https://t.co/tTX4kmFKtb