Archaeology
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10 Ancient Shivlinga found across the World 1. Vietnam https://t.co/7As0OmBljr
The general Sittas was slain in 539 by Artabanes of the Arsacid family, an Armenian who had a remarkable career. In an odd twist of fate, Artabanes later took Sittas' old job in th...
HYPERDIFFUSIONISM: The Common Origin of Civilization🧵 Understanding the spread of megalithic cultures from Egypt to the Americas. https://t.co/hIce7bkPEI
I’m currently working on trying to gain understanding of the ‘double ax/labrys’ as possible omni-directional antenna. Ancient images may have been attempting to show its 3d shape...
Constantinople made a huge impression on the Varangians. In the Morkinskinna, an Old Norse saga, there is a description of the Hippodrome. They were impressed by the visual spectac...
#OnThisDay July 15th, 1799 - A remarkable discovery of a single slab of stone changed our understanding of human history! It was the finding of the 'Rosetta Stone' by Napoleon's a...
1/ Lycia: rugged with hard-to-reach mountain masses, which form fertile valleys and with a steep coastline that nevertheless has several sheltered bays. The morphology of the land...
THREAD - The Drowning of Doggerland (1) Cities may be burnt & forgotten, distant islands lost & found. It is rare that an entire landmass is erased, only to be rediscovered millen...
Today we're thinking about archaeological forgeries, fakes and hoaxes. Some do it for the money, to prove their theory correct or to boost their reputation, for others it seems com...
The arms & armour of the Normans • 11th-12th centuries AD • [Thread] https://t.co/pd6MmeuJmu
10 Ancient Shivlinga found across the World 1. Vietnam https://t.co/BngkAKxldT
Alright, Twitter, this video recapitulates something in the public-facing Roman/Italic military equipment talk that has been bugging me for a while, so we're going to talk about th...
Today I bring a long thread to introduce you to the mysterious ancient past of the Iberian Peninsula before Bronze, around a river that saw the birth of prosperous civilizations. S...
'Why is Chinese civilisation more like the Mayan than Mesopotamian?" - some thoughts on the development of Chinese culture over time from the archaeologist K.C Chang. https://t.co/...
KAMBOJ FOOT-PRINTS IN ANCIENT BENGAL? @Gandaberunda4 @Gaudeshwar Indian & foreign evidence attest tht from earlier times, people of Kamboj hd interacted with NE regions of ancient...
When it comes to material evidence of past human societies people greatly underestimate how much lost or destroyed in a 1000 years. Let alone in 10,000 or 100,000 years. We have t...
1/ In 1250/40 BC constitutes a turning point for the Mycenaean world, as it gradually enters an endless instability, which culminates at the turn of the 13th cent BC with the viole...
1 There is conclusive archaeological proof that Nalanda was very much a Hindu university as "Brahmanical" images were discovered there by Dr. G.K. Lama of BHU who excavated in & ar...
THE PHRYGIANS (1) According to Herodotus (VII 73), the Phrygians, according to the Macedonians, would have been called Βµύγες as long as they cohabited with them and lived in Euro...
1/7 Jars, like this Iraqi jar, were used daily by people living in the Umayyad & Early Abbasid eras. Archeologists call them “𝐭𝐨𝐫𝐩𝐞𝐝𝐨 𝐣𝐚𝐫𝐬” but what did the Arabic speakers who use...
1/n The Prayagraj pillar, now standing at the fort of Prayagraj is a tapering Ashokan pillar, having four inscriptions; of Ashoka, Samudragupta, Jahangir and Raja Birbal. It has...
AI facial reconstruction of a Guanche mummy from the Canary Islands. Known for their blonde hair, blue eyes, and strong physiques, this lost stone age sun-worshiping culture liv...
Braće ! This is the earliest known Chakravyuh (labyrinth) dating more than 5000 years (MBH) Usgalimal, Goa. #Archaeology https://t.co/A9ipzpCusd
THE SPHINX thread… 🧵 https://t.co/sEADlLnTf8
