#Trajan

For #MuseumsUnlocked Day 81, we'd like to take you on a tour of the Tropaeum Traiani, a #Roman military tropaeum located in our backyard in south-eastern #Romania Why is a
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Today is Remembrance Day/Veterans Day/Armistice Day, called varying things in different countries. In some places it is an official holiday. But 11th of November has an older meaning that pre-dates
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Some very #BadAncient here from @guardian @guardianart: 'Egypt and Greece were civilisations. Assyria was not.'Let's take a brief look at this then https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/jonathanjonesblog/2014/mar/27/british-m
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The Mighty Roman Empire which started with 19 years old Gaius Octavius (The Grand Nephew of Gaius Caeser) in 27 BC, who assumed the title of Augustus (The Venerable) after
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Thread: Y “Bronze Age?” Is conquering spirit the main attribute admired by @bronzeagemantis? Bronze Age on equal or lesser footing with Roman, Crusader, & Mongols as conquerors...no. Bronze Age has
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Dear Twitter, I have spent a lot of time in the past two years working on this thing called my 'dissertation.'What is Christopher doing, you may wonder? In this thread
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3rd-4th century mosaic. The Sun God Sol. He is holding the sphere of the heavens in his hand. What makes this notable is that this is from a Jewish synagogue.
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Time for another #MoneyAtoZ thread. A series of tweetorials based on my @iubHistory @IUCollege History of Money course (HIST-W 330).A is for Ancient EconomyB is for BitcoinC is for Cowriesd
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I am starting a thread below to link together all of the naval & military history, as well as modern war and security writing, that I find interesting and which
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