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Nahum Goldmann, father of Guido, was a founder of the World Jewish Congress and its president. He was also president of the World Zionist Organization. In 1916–18, Goldmann worked...
A quick overview of "𝙻'𝙰𝚕𝚌ú𝚍𝚒𝚊" 🇪🇸archaeological site: Iberians, Romans, Visigoths & Byzantines. Place of discovery of the "Lady of Elche" 🧵⬇️
Meet Rebecca Redfern (BA, MSc, PhD, FSA) lol. She is a senior curator of Archaeology at the Museum of London. She is dead set on making sure everyone knows Britain was as diverse 2...
**#Ratnagiri Petroglyph at Rundhe Tali** This site presents: - A remarkable 12000 years old petroglyph, measuring around 45-50 feet in dimension around - A giant central figure a...
A Land Before Time 🧵 The Ancient Roots of "Bhārata" We can start with the first seedlings of India’s civilization. The Indus-Saraswati Civilization was spread across North and We...
🚨NEW ARTICLE ALERT🚨 Did Proto-Indo-European borrow words from Proto-Semitic? Short answer: No Long answer: https://t.co/VAXVuGSytI Medium length answer: thread 🧵👇 https://t.co/ceWI...
On 19th of September 1991, in the Ötztal Alps, the natural mummy of a man who lived between 3350 and 3105 BC was found. According to researchers, Ötzi, also called the Iceman, was...
𝑂𝑛 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑜𝑟𝑖𝑔𝑖𝑛𝑠 𝑜𝑓 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝐸𝑡𝑟𝑢𝑠𝑐𝑎𝑛𝑠: https://t.co/EdGEKyoAiJ
In 2014, a Roman road and three human skeletons were found under a McDonald's in Frattocchie, Italy. The three bodies are believed to have been buried there in the 3rd century. A...
Bond and Hempsell studied a Sumerian star chart tablet, where one half described the position of the planets and the other half described a "stone bowl" moving across the sky. Boom...
In the #Roman necropolis at Wehringen, Bavaria, a physician was buried with a set of surgical instruments, a stone palette, and a bronze medicine box with a sliding lid and separat...
Three Inca children found mummified atop a 20,000-foot volcano in South America consumed increasing amounts of coca leaf and corn beer for up to a year before they were sacrificed,...
On the left is the oldest statue ever discovered. Found in Germany and known as the Lion Man, it is more than 40,000 years old. On the right are two major films released in 2023....
1/5 Eight Arms form of Lord Vishnu An inscribed conch shell from around 2nd – 3rd century AD was recovered from Nagarjuna Konda. On which भगवतो अठभुज सामि was written in Brahmi scr...
1/2 Inscription of Kadamba ruler of 3rd century AD, four Vedas mentioned on the fifth line of the inscription. Which is called by the word Chatuvejjan. Chatuvijja – Chaturvidya (Fo...
What comes to your mind when you hear ‘A 550-year-old Mummy’? People think of Egypt & ancient Pyramids. But did you know: India has discovered its own mysterious "Mummy"? And it...
Ten times Herodotus was proved right. Despite being called a liar, the Father of History was right more often than not, even if archaeology and science has taken a while to catch...
1/ In the last few days I have been asked by several people: "When did the Israelites appear in Palestine? Are they indigenous or did they come from somewhere else?". The answer...
Weirdest looking guy ever becomes Pharaoh, says there's only one God, and upon his death his capital is immediately abandoned and he's stricken from the historical record for 3,200...
Why didn't Mesoamericans make practical use of the wheel?... Or did they? While recently the notion that the Americas did not know of this tech has been displaced by the recogniti...
Geneticists have had access to ancient DNA whole genome sequences from Canaanites, Israelites, Judahites for some time now. First genetic distances to modern people below. I will...
The beginnings of Elam and its geographical setting: the core area of the civilization was southern Iran, stretching from Mesopotamia to the edge of the Makran coast, with corrid...
Ignored for too long, but one if the most important ‘bridge’ civilisations in history, it is time to delve into the world of Elam today. https://t.co/ZF7aGelYj8
10 Ancient Shivling found across the World 1. Vietnam (The largest stone Shivling in South East Asia) https://t.co/fIQ2TtjrNh
