Archeology
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Have you ever seen a larnax made of 24-carat gold, weighing 11 kilograms? Wreaths made of gold? Golden bees and acorns? Especially a larnax containing the ashes of a king? One tha...
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...
Thread 🧵: - Historical proof for the divine origin of the Qurʾān - The Qurʾān and the use of Silver in Ancient Egypt 1/8 https://t.co/O8eLPksAWh
Tamil Nadu History Book 11th and 12th All Maps Compilations A Thread 🧵 https://t.co/B1zpbx07fc
“The research is helping to pin down where the Tocharians were located in the period between 3,500 BC, when they may have left their ancestral home, and their first written history...
10 Ancient Shivalinga found across the World... 1. Vietnam https://t.co/sR82nqX1Aw
Gayatri Asokan, famous mollywood (malayalam cinema industry) playback singer belongs to the Thiyya community. Thiyyas are just bronze age Indus Valley or Harappan people living am...
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
Ralph Glidden was an amateur archaeologist who uncovered ancient burial sites on Catalina Island from 1919 to 1928. Ralph claimed that he had uncovered a secret history of Catalina...
Sadly the regions to the south of Lake Chad aren't well studies https://t.co/b7TQlXqJEA https://t.co/ybuO6rF9RQ
The method of embalming when the ancient Egyptians Recently discovered the method of mummification and discovered its materials and methods. The ancient Egyptians discovered mummif...
feel like i should just report some anecdotal evidence that a girl from central europe is staying at my house and told me a family friend in the mountains there dug under his house...
These huge "keyholes" in the city of Sakai, Japan, are actually tombs built for the Emperor Nintoku over 1,500 years ago. Since the dawn of civilisation humans have been building...
1 In 1956, Soviet archaeologists made an amazing discovery in the Dayr-Asan region of Tajikistan. They found a mysterious rock inscription which was later deciphered to be the olde...
Before the Bratsk Reservoir in Russia was flooded 6 silver jugs were found on an island that went under. Only 2 of them survive. At the bottom of 1 of them is an interesting inscri...
Was Qutub Minar really built by Qutub and Iltushmish ? An account from the Report for the Year 1871-72: Delhi, & Agra by Alexander Cunningham , J. D. Beglar, A. C . L. Carlieyle s...
The lost library of Gilgit. In 1931, shepherds in the village of Naupur, 2 miles west of Gilgit, accidentally discovered a manuscript in a wooden box. Later in 1938, during excava...
Inner Eurasia ~ 565-580 CE: The most remarkable is that little-known culture in the Kama river region. Far up north several silver bowls have been found that contain images of the...
Chapter 7: The Sword of The Ancient Age https://t.co/sq0agnGwxY
As promised, here is a detailed thread on the Kalyanapuravardhisvara Chalukyas of Sangameshvar. Although the Chalukya clan had many offshoots all over Maharashtra and northern pa...
Ancient Egyptians originated from the mesolithic cultures of Egypt. The earliest Cultures were in the north in Merimde Beni Salama, Maadi and Fayum then later on in the middle of E...
The faces of Egyptians who lived 2000 years ago. https://t.co/pGfcz2fSJZ
[THREAD: WHEN GREECE RULED INDIA] 1/89 Some time in the 7th century AD, Sanskrit writer Bāṇabhaṭṭa did a biography on his patron, emperor Harshavardhana. It was titled Harṣacarīta...
This was a fantastic thread about modern Chinese historiography, archeological finds & its effect on the formation of "Chinese identity" from a smart Indian fella who is no longer...
