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[image] He does not look calm. He looks changed. Ancient Siberian and Central Asian rock and funerary art repeatedly shows strange anthropomorphic figures with rays, feathers, claws, and distorted bodies. Researchers link some of them to shamanic costume, trance, and

[video] The ancient Egyptian god of the moon If you love exploring ancient Egyptian mythology you need to see this incredible magical statue. This breathtaking artifact represents Khonsu the powerful ancient lunar deity of the legendary Theban Triad. He is beautifully carved as a

[video] Blackwater chopper t-bags a rival PMC sniper team in Iraq (2004)

[video] A fearless Yemeni soldier confronts a Saudi armored vehicle with just his personal weapon during the recent war between Yemen and Saudi Arabia... They are the brave Yemeni army 🇾🇪

[image] How to handle a national crisis in Ancient Egypt. Located on Sehel Island near Aswan, this massive stone monument is known as the Famine Stele. Dating back to the 5th Dynasty around 2350 BC, it records a terrifying period in Egyptian history. A severe famine struck the land

[image] 15 April 1664 Up and all the morning with Captain Taylor at my house talking about things of the Navy … Home and dined, and then with my wife by coach to the Duke’s house, and there saw “The German Princess” acted, by the woman herself;* but never was any thing so well done in

[image] The Stele of Callimachus: A testament to crisis management in Ptolemaic Egypt Recarved in 39 BC, this stele features decrees in both Demotic and Greek granting honors to General Callimachus for rescuing Thebes from drought. It visually merges the old and the new by retaining the

[image] Henry Knox hauling 60 tons of captured cannons over 300 miles in the winter to expel the British from Boston is not talked about enough. American Exceptionalism 🇺🇸

[image] The ancient Greek Eratosthenes of Cyrene (276–194 BC) provides the earliest reliable attestation of the Kurds. Writing sometime after 240 BCE during the early Ptolemaic Kingdom (soon after the Achaemenid collapse), when he served as chief librarian at the Library of Alexandria,

[image] Egypt's oldest known mask predates the Great Pyramid by over a thousand years. Archaeologists pulled it from an elite cemetery at Hierakonpolis with string holes still intact near the ears. We can only guess if it was worn by a priest dancing in the firelight or placed over the

[image] Friday 17 April 1663 Up by five o’clock as I have long done and to my office all the morning, at noon home to dinner with my father with us. Our dinner, it being Good Friday, was only sugarsopps and fish; the only time that we have had a Lenten dinner all this Lent. This morning

[video] Karnak Temple: Egypt’s Greatest House of the Gods

[image] Are Kurds ethnically Mede? The question itself is misleading because it assumes a clear misunderstanding of what a Mede was. In reality the Medes were not an ethnic group, but an organised tribal political group of Iranians much like the Mards, Sagartians, Persians, and many

[image] 165 years ago today — February 18, 1861 — Jefferson Davis inaugurated as Provisional President of the Confederate States of America in Montgomery, Alabama! He would later take the full oath for a six-year term on February 22, 1862. “We have entered upon the career of

[image] 15th century English Lady-at-arms

[image] New map for my setting

[image] Old world Neolithic diffusion(Aberkane 2022,Aumassip 1997,Guilaine 2011)

[image] Knight of Lycoris/Manjusaka，knight with red horse of the Apocalypse.

[image] a Garuda scholar mapping Garudas serves Empire as best scholars and bureaucrats.Thounsand years ago under the order of the champion king Chandragupta,they measured the entire land of blackbuck and made maps for every single shrine,which were used as standard in future centuries

[image] The empire that never existed: The Median empire. In Book 1 of The Histories, Herodotus devotes considerable attention to the rise of the Achaemenid Empire. He begins by describing the revolts of the Medes against the Neo-Assyrian Empire. According to his account, the Medes had

[video] The terrifying Houthi sniper Taha Najeeb, the greatest sniper in the Middle East.

[image] La Cão Selvagem a commission work based on Portuguese soldiers in Indian Ocean in 16th century

[video] The Sahara swallowed an entire Roman metropolis and kept it perfectly hidden from the world. Timgad was built from absolute scratch in 100 AD with sprawling libraries and bathhouses before being completely erased by the advancing desert. Our modern asphalt falls apart in a

[image] Sunday 19 April 1663 (Easter day). Up and this day put on my close-kneed coloured suit, which, with new stockings of the colour, with belt, and new gilt-handled sword, is very handsome. To church alone, and so to dinner … after dinner to church again, my father sitting below in

[video] Thousands of hours of meticulous gold and black artistry were poured into the burial chamber of Seti I. All of this hallucinatory detail was painted in the pitch dark, sealed away, and never meant for human eyes. It makes you wonder who the intended audience really was.

[image] Friday 3 April 1663 Waked betimes and talked half an hour with my father, and so I rose and to my office, and about 9 o’clock by water from the Old Swan to White Hall and to chappell, which being most monstrous full, I could not go into my pew, but sat among the quire. Dr.

[video] Histoire, culture et civilisation Africaines.

[image] This major upcoming publication should not be understated in terms of how important it will be for the academic study of the Kurdish languages. It will provide a comprehensive scholarly overview of what we already know, while also building on that knowledge further. Importantly,

[image] Asanwa Akstudien [German: artistic study of a person]. Cross River-Cameroons area. Alfred Mansfeld, 1908.

[image] In Ptolemaic Egypt, science and sacred belief were not opposites. This Late Period to Ptolemaic display from Saqqara reflects a world where astronomy advanced in Alexandria, while devotion to sun, moon, and cosmic power still shaped religious life. To ancient Egypt, was the sky

[image] Saturn’s rings can’t be seen with the naked eye. Yet the Dogon tribe of West Africa described Saturn as having a ring. So how did they know? they told us they were given the knowledge by the Nommo, beings who allegedly visited Earth thousands of years ago from the Sirius

[image] The young Caesar sets off for Rome

[image] Tombouctou, Mali.

[image] 𝚆𝚒𝚝𝚑 𝚏𝚛𝚎𝚎𝚍𝚘𝚖, 𝚋𝚘𝚘𝚔𝚜, 𝚏𝚕𝚘𝚠𝚎𝚛𝚜, 𝚊𝚗𝚍 𝚝𝚑𝚎 𝚖𝚘𝚘𝚗, 𝚠𝚑𝚘 𝚌𝚘𝚞𝚕𝚍 𝚗𝚘𝚝 𝚋𝚎 𝚑𝚊𝚙𝚙𝚢? — Oscar Wilde 𓂃✍︎

[image] Bronze Age traders moved lapis lazuli thousands of miles from modern Afghanistan to string it around Egyptian necks. The immense effort required to secure these specific blue stones points to a utility far beyond basic adornment. We are looking at the surviving fragments of a

[image] In the 1870s, kids in D.C. roller hard-boiled eggs down the Capitol Hill slopes on Easter Monday. It got so chaotic and destructive to the grass that in 1876, Congress passed the Turf Protection Law to ban it. The disappointed children swarmed the White House, leading

[image] The Gravehounds. Ranks defined by the number of iron bars in their visors. Horns define their jobs and specialties. Excel in close quarters combat and trench warfare. Large visors allow for immaculate night vision. Communicate by taping their helmets, each has a unique echo.

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[video] Why Does This Ancient Stone Look Like It’s Floating?

[image] Taragarh Fort, located on the peak of the Aravalli hills, is famous for its magnificent architecture, tunnels, and beautiful frescoes. Built in Bundi, this fort is completely free from Mughal influence and stands as an outstanding example of Rajput architecture.

[image] 23 February 1664 This day, by the blessing of God, I have lived thirty-one years in the world; and, by the grace of God, I find myself not only in good health in every thing, and particularly as to the stone, but only pain upon taking cold, and also in a fair way of coming to a

[image] 𝙾𝚗𝚕𝚢 𝚋𝚢 𝚜𝚎𝚕𝚏-𝚛𝚎𝚜𝚙𝚎𝚌𝚝 𝚠𝚒𝚕𝚕 𝚢𝚘𝚞 𝚌𝚘𝚖𝚙𝚎𝚕 𝚘𝚝𝚑𝚎𝚛𝚜 𝚝𝚘 𝚛𝚎𝚜𝚙𝚎𝚌𝚝 𝚢𝚘𝚞. — Fyodor Dostoevsky 𓂃✍︎

[image] Taking a dip Picture of a group of Igbo boys bathing on the Imo river, near Aba. William Fagg, 28 February 1946.

[image] I open X and I see that the Grassfields of Cameroon 🇨🇲 is going viral for our traditional architecture🛖! I’m so proud of my people for preserving these structures despite colonialism and modernization! ✊🏾 Once again, 𝐆𝐑𝐀𝐅𝐅𝐈 is GREAT 🇨🇲🔥 Here’s the interior: #Cameroon

[image] 𝚃𝙷𝙴 𝙺𝙴𝚈 𝚃𝙾 𝚈𝙾𝚄𝚁 𝙷𝙴𝙰𝚁𝚃 𝙸𝚂 𝙻𝙾𝚅𝙴, 𝚁𝙴𝚂𝙿𝙴𝙲𝚃, 𝙰𝙽𝙳 𝙺𝙸𝙽𝙳𝙽𝙴𝚂𝚂. 𝙷𝙴𝙰𝚁𝚃 𝙽𝙴𝙴𝙳𝚂 𝙽𝙾𝚃𝙷𝙸𝙽𝙶 𝙼𝙾𝚁𝙴. Have a powerful Monday 💪 𝙂𝙤𝙤𝙙 𝙈𝙤𝙧𝙣𝙞𝙣𝙜 𝙓 𝙁𝙖𝙢☕ 🩷💙 #GoodMorning

[image] 𝙸𝚝 𝚒𝚜 𝚗𝚘𝚝 𝚒𝚗 𝚝𝚑𝚎 𝚜𝚝𝚊𝚛𝚜 𝚝𝚘 𝚑𝚘𝚕𝚍 𝚘𝚞𝚛 𝚍𝚎𝚜𝚝𝚒𝚗𝚢 𝚋𝚞𝚝 𝚒𝚗 𝚘𝚞𝚛𝚜𝚎𝚕𝚟𝚎𝚜. — Shakespeare 𓂃✍︎

[image] Before Hippocrates: The Nippur Medical Tablet Excavated in modern Iraq and written in Sumerian cuneiform, this 4,100-year-old artifact contains approximately 15 distinct medical prescriptions. The text provides highly detailed instructions, including the use of alkali and oils

[image] 𝙴𝚍𝚞𝚌𝚊𝚝𝚒𝚘𝚗 𝚒𝚜 𝚊𝚗 𝚊𝚍𝚖𝚒𝚛𝚊𝚋𝚕𝚎 𝚝𝚑𝚒𝚗𝚐, 𝚋𝚞𝚝 𝚒𝚝 𝚒𝚜 𝚠𝚎𝚕𝚕 𝚝𝚘 𝚛𝚎𝚖𝚎𝚖𝚋𝚎𝚛 𝚏𝚛𝚘𝚖 𝚝𝚒𝚖𝚎 𝚝𝚘 𝚝𝚒𝚖𝚎 𝚝𝚑𝚊𝚝 𝚗𝚘𝚝𝚑𝚒𝚗𝚐 𝚝𝚑𝚊𝚝 𝚒𝚜 𝚠𝚘𝚛𝚝𝚑 𝚔𝚗𝚘𝚠𝚒𝚗𝚐 𝚌𝚊𝚗 𝚋𝚎 𝚝𝚊𝚞𝚐𝚑𝚝. — Oscar Wilde 𓂃✍︎

[image] A 2,500-year-old gold plaque from Darius the Great pure ancient Persian legacy.

[image] 𝙷𝚎 𝚒𝚜 𝚝𝚎𝚛𝚛𝚒𝚋𝚕𝚢 𝚊𝚏𝚛𝚊𝚒𝚍 𝚘𝚏 𝚍𝚢𝚒𝚗𝚐 𝚋𝚎𝚌𝚊𝚞𝚜𝚎 𝚑𝚎 𝚑𝚊𝚜𝚗'𝚝 𝚢𝚎𝚝 𝚕𝚒𝚟𝚎𝚍. — Franz Kafka 𓂃✍︎