Archaeology
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Another land which appears in Akkadian inscriptions, described as a land beyond Elam, and often mentioned together with Meluhha (the Indus Valley) was Markhasi, or, Marahasi. Acc...
Excerpts from the absolutely wonderful book : https://t.co/5bgv0GB0Eo https://t.co/vHgVAeNO12
Prehistory of the Indus-Oxus Arc, takes us back almost to 3000 BC beginning with the first Proto-Elamite expansion from 3000 BC : this created the first layer of settlements on whi...
Epigraphic; numismatic refrncs of ancient Bharat's geopolitical influence in NE African littoral till Horn of Africa. Thread Barabaria by greeks; Bilad al Barbar by Arabs & Barvva...
Hyperborea is literally real by the way. Not even as an abstract concept, it actually existed. Ice Age Siberia was home to the ancestral forebears of the Indo-European, Altaic, and...
[THE STORY OF CASTE - 3: THE HARAPPANS] For this discussion, Harappan serves as an adjective for the entire Indus Valley Civilization and not just the city of Harappa. With that o...
The great pyramid of Giza was a plutonium mill. The lesser were attempts to recreate it that were unsuccessful (presumably knowledge or tooling was lost) There was a detailed hypo...
1 What we call Indus Valley Civilization today should have been named the Saraswati Valley Civilization & the core of it should have been Kalibangan NOT Harappa. Italian scholar L....
1/ "Buddhapada" are the footprints of the Buddha, embodying his teachings. They include powerful symbols like Swastika, Trident, Dharmachakra, and Conch Shell that hold deep signif...
The Tarim Mummies are a series of mummies discovered in the Tarim Basin in present-day Xinjiang, China, dating to 1800 BC. to the first centuries BC 2100 and 1700 BC. The people of...
2 Indian historians; both connected to the Panjab University; wrote breakthrough papers b/w 1960 & 1980 on the pre-emptive military strikes into Persia (under Sassanian dynasty) &...
Shunga Homeland Theories : While neither the Puranas nor Harshacharita of Bana, provide conclusive remarks about the homeland of the Shungas, there have been several theories prop...
Origin of Chinese civilization. The origin or rather origins of Chinese civilization stretch back to the Neolithic Age when agriculture have been independently developed in Yellow...
"With the support of Russian billionaire Oleg Deripaska’s Volnoe Delo Foundation, archaeologists from the Russian Academy of Science who are exploring remains from the city, have f...
1/n Important Update on Ancient #Rockart discovered in the Aravali hills of Haryana, Bharat. Thanks to @SunilHarsana for leading the fight to protect and preserve the Aravali Hills...
Shortugai: Indus Valley's Trading Outpost in the North-Western Afghanistan - A Long Thread on the Indus Valley's Rich Trade and the Trading Outpost of Shortugai https://t.co/tMT...
Montana Megaliths Megathread: What I learned after visiting the sites, talking with a Geologist, and hearing rebuttals from folks on Twitter 🧵 👇 https://t.co/aeFcdYWS0x
NEW IBERIAN COPPER AGE THREAD: A study published early last month announced the surprising discovery that the so-called "ivory man" from the only known example of individual burial...
Thread on religious life of Varendra, which once used to be Shree Kshetra. The land between two rivers Padma and Brahmaputra comprising the districts of Dinajpur Maldah Rajshahi...
Gilgit-Baltistan – The Crossroad of Asia - A long Thread on the 7000 years’ history of Gilgit-Baltistan and its enduring geo-political Significance https://t.co/XPTGgptVka https:...
Similar surveys were sanctioned by the Indian state to capture Babri Masjid. I remember reading a great paragraph by Arundhati Roy: “In Russia they say the past is unpredictable....
The Evolution Of The Pointed Stick A thread concerning humanity's greatest invention - a long stick with a sharp bit on the end. https://t.co/UxNuzqRmZE
There is a reasonable doubt that the Badrinath and Tirupati temples were originally Buddhist shrine. ASI should investigate, and every moment of the investigation should be telev...
1/37: "A New Paradigm: The African Early Iron Age (EIA) without Bantu Migrations" by John H. Robertson and Rebecca Bradley The Early Iron Age (EIA) THREAD 🧵 https://t.co/rH5zMWmURf
