Archaeology
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In fairness, I am using the most extreme example to make my case for "colonial theft": Ancient Mesopotamia was consigned to near total physical and cultural oblivion, with an uncar...
A firsthand account from British Assyriologist Archibald Sayce. Did 19th-century Western archaeologists "steal" artifacts from Ottoman lands? Did anyone regard it as stealing or tr...
What I was taking aim at in my archaeology thread: If the Ishtar Gate was part of Iraqi "heritage", Iraqis certainly had no idea—not until German scholars discovered and reconstruc...
Thread on Anthony's "Horse wheel and language" Introduction: Anthony lays out his central thesis: Combine the Proto-Indo-European vocabulary with archaeological remains may move b...
6000-Year-old Shri Ram and Hanuman carvings in Sumerian (Modern day Iraq) Kingdom discovered by Leonard Woolley in 1922. https://t.co/JW28OpAcAK
When early cuneiform scholars proposed that the script—and thus Mesopotamian civilization itself—had originated with a theretofore unknown people who spoke an agglutinative languag...
Wrt "British Museum" discourse, it cannot be emphasized enough that, with few exceptions, the ancient civilizations of the Near East played no role at all in the culture or identit...
The new ASI dig at Rakhigarhi is throwing up some amazing finds from early, mature and late Harappan periods. Some are multi-storey buildings. These are just from a small area; the...
🇷🇺⛏️🇺🇦 Russia announced a great archeological discovery near Mariupol. A marvel of mechanical engineering by Kiyv's primitive tribes, once thought to be too primitive to achieve an...
In my series on Kakatiyas, today I look at the fall of Orugallu, their capital city, which was raided thrice in 1310, 1318 and 1323, it’s immense riches looted, including the fable...
Three Surya Vigrahas from three different centuries, unearthed in Bengal and artistic evolution of the image. Pic 1: From 3rd Century CE, this earliest rock-engraving was excav...
Lost Kingdoms of Northwest India (A Thread) https://t.co/OBULFwJu5X
Thread on the only real descendants of Imperial Mauryas The 96 Kulin #Maurya/Moré Marathas of Deccan https://t.co/DTH9yQw2Qh
Did you know that in the 1970s & 1980s, Israel looted one of the most important Canaanite sites in Gaza, which also was linked to ancient Egypt? The following thread tells the stor...
After Claudius's successful invasion in 42 AD, Britain became colony of the Roman empire. They haven't relinquished their control there after Roman Londonium; notice the Mithras...
Alert! Alert! ⚠️ New #paper published! 😱 Join me in this thread 🧵👇 where I will tell you the latest we have published on interpersonal #violence ⚔️in #Prehistory. Let's talk abo...
One deeply ahistorical aspect of most films and shows set during the Middle Ages is their extreme sanitization of combat which reduces it to child's play and thus fails to approxim...
Had the opportunity to visit the ancient Jain beds at Tirupparankundram. Though ASI had put the guardrails, it was not easy to climb & was wondering how the Jain monks claimed the...
Recently two temples belonging to the Badami Chalukya period were unearthed in Mudimanikyam village, located on the banks of the Krishna River. Let's look at some important points...
Hanel et al. 2020 - Skin/eye color and ancestry Modern subcontinental populations (Indians, Sri Lankans, Bangladeshis, Pakistanis) are all majority CHG-like or Neolithic Iranian (...
Since Central Asian nations opened up in the 1990s, they became sources of new archaeological discoveries. Buddhist discoveries were expected, but few expected a strong Hindu influ...
𝑂𝑛 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑜𝑟𝑖𝑔𝑖𝑛𝑠 𝑜𝑓 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝐸𝑡𝑟𝑢𝑠𝑐𝑎𝑛𝑠: https://t.co/Zy3SpVpHr6
1/ Mycenae was the political, economic and religious center of the Mycenaean world throughout the palatial period, probably even earlier. The violent destruction of the Citadel at...
The Pyramids of Giza are enigmas that may never be solved. We've found thousands of hieroglyphs across Egypt - not one mentions how they were built or how the ancients cut stone....
