#Ancient

Dr. Joshua R. Hall

JoshuaRHall3

Hi All! Josh here with another plea to help some students and ECRs!This is a thread, and I encourage you to read it, please, and share if you feel appropriate.

Karnnnnnnnnnn

theflyingclaw

The first great war of Aryavrata or Bharat. Wait it's not Mahabharata. It took place before Mahabharata. One of the greatest war of vedic era about which many people still

Dr Emlyn Dodd

emlynkd

Can we *please* STOP saying that #ancient #wine was far more alcoholic than modern wine, and that’s why it was watered down A #thread why... 1/ While variable, most modern

Corey Quinn

QuinnyPig

Ancient sysadmin wisdom: don’t use ‘>’ as part of your shell prompt. You’re one copy/paste error away from truncating a file. There’s a reason root’s ‘#’ prompt gets interpreted as

Joel Baden

JoelBaden

#Exodus 20:12The fifth commandmentHonor your father and mother. What could be more straightforward than that? Well...I’m of the belief that this commandment refers primarily to post-mortem care (and feeding! probably),

The Broken Tusk ௐ 卐

TheBrokenTusk

Lmao, their "code" involved cannibalism & sacrificing children.Archaeologist Joyce Marcus notes:"We also have good evidence for human sacrifice in the archaeological record.Immediate sacrifice of victims taken in raids wa

Joyous Cosplayer Emotional Bargaining Chip

AlasdairStuart

So here’s a thing. Are you a creative? Maybe a freelancer? Are you on winter break?You scared yet?Because I fucking have been. Relaxation, the idea of going entirely tools down,

Matthew Willis

NavalAirHistory

I see a lot of comments that the swastika had nothing to do with anything negative before the NSDAP adopted it in 1920. Largely, but not *quite* the case. There

Tristan D Rutland

TristanRutland7

Pathological medical history quiz time! #pathtwitter #medicalhistory1/ During the black plague, doctors use to think it was transmitted by: 2/ Verrucous carcinoma is a variant of Squamous Cell Carcinoma. Previous

Professor ChemeX

SproBeforeBros

So here's a little thread about a rabbit hole I went down a few years ago as I was attempting to figure out a history of various coffee preparation methods

Kelly Holob

KellyHolob

I didn’t start learning Greek until I was 21 (I’m almost 29 now). If ancient studies wants to be accessible to more people it’s going to need to take into

Nikhil Nayak

nayaknikhil007

Development of zero as a mathematical concept may have been inspired by India’s long philosophical tradition and a culture that is quite happy to conceive of the void (Shunya- symbol

Joe Bassey

Joe__Bassey

The Wolof (aka Jolof or Djolof) Empire was a state on the coast of West Africa, located between the Senegal and Gambia rivers, which Ancient civilization thrived from the mid-14th to mid-16th

Robert P. George

McCormickProf

1/ In 1834, the German poet Heinrich Heine, whose books would later be burned by the Nazis because of his Jewish heritage, made a prophecy. A great insight is at

Joe Bassey

Joe__Bassey

Aksum was the original capital of the Kingdom of Aksum, a naval and trading power that ruled the region from about 400 BCE to the 10th century.The stelae were large

Michael Anenburg

manenbu

Let's do a bit of armchair geology, ok?I was on Google Earth looking for something, and then I saw this dark green line in the desert. I wonder what it

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