#Ancient

Mary Beard and Simon Goldhill just finished a Cambridge webinar on "Statue Wars — Controversy and Debate" comparing ancient use and abuse of statues to what's happening now. Here's some
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TerribleThe commodification of these looted antiquities goes against all archaeological ethics. Many of them are clearly illegal w/ provenance postdating the 1970 UNESCO conventionThe kicker is that doing this for
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ORIENTAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE:1). Mysore Oriental Library is a world-renowned with a collection of more than 70,000 manuscripts and 40,000 rare books . One of them is Arthashastra. Tanjanjavoor Saraboji library
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Millions have come to enjoy and love J.R.R. Tolkien's Lord of the Rings trilogy but few know that the author privately told many that these works were based on a
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Hoy he aprovechado para darme una vuelta por la recreación romántica de Leicester de #AssassinsCreedValhalla . Respeta, a muy grandes rasgos, la disposición de lo que conocemos de la
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A list of threads and articles that I’ve done on the lesser known parts of our history. Rai Dynasty.https://twitter.com/____MHN____/status/1256279832264085506 Ancient Peshawar.https://twitter.com/____mhn____/status/1251863183507193857 Ind
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A brief history of #Halabja cityHalabja is an ancient city,according to some historical sources, the modern foundation of Halabja city today goes back to the early 18th century.It was designated
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In Jan 2016, I had a coffee with @donnazuck after what had happened to her after publishing “How to be a good classicist”. I was chair then on WCC and
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A thread on #Egyptology and interdisciplinarity, or: Why #theory is too western, how Egyptologists can help, and why everyone needs to #decolonise.#academicchat #academictwitter Egyptologists and other ancient world folks will
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THREAD/Mickey Mouse/Freemasons.[They] run the world and I believe the c U e drop with the Mickey Clock is comms for [them].[Their] time is UP!Mickey Mouse has been around in ancient
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The PM is a self-confessed Hindu nationalist. What bigger idiocy than that is needed in a liberal, plural, democracy to demonstrate fatuousness? The PM in one of his earliest speeches,
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#AncientCitiesOfIndia This is a thread which has links of all my threads on Ancient and Holy cities of India.UjjainPrayagVaranasi (Kashi)PushkarDwarakaAyodhyaRameshwaramMahabalipuram(More to be added) UJJAIN - Ancient and historical city th
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Using the word p//edophile for fiction will ALWAYS be a red flag for me UNLESS said fiction is SPECIFICALLY about a character BEING one in their fictional world. For anything
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Today I will post some thoughts on Fritz Lang's "Metropolis" and how it may relate to what's happening to us today. 1/ Was a flashback in "Metropolis" showing how the
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Often Stoicism is thought of as an ancient philosophy, with no relevance to the modern world. This is simply not true. There are a host of successful people who have
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When I teach Intro to International Relations, I use no ancient texts or ancient examples.That's right. No Thucydides.Why?[THREAD] To be clear, I mean "no" ancient texts.That means no Thucydides...https://www.google.com/books/
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