#Assyrian

Ancient Scythian; Scytho-Siberian (Aldy-Bel; Kamensk and Pazyryk cultures); Sarmatian; Cimmerian; Maeotian and Sakā tigraxaudā Warriors.Art by Evgeny Kray.All credit goes to the artist.Scythian, Kelermesskoye kurgan, Adygea, VIIth C. BCPa
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Excited (and nervous) to give a Zoom lecture today to a 5th-grade class about astronomy in ancient Mesopotamia and its legacy! It’s impossible to talk about any aspect of scholarship
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1/ Today on #Archaeology_Online, a story that you dont hear every day, combining archeology of the Ancient Near East and modern history in a way that doesn't happen much. This
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On February 6th, the Armenian Church celebrates the feast of St. Sahak Partev Catholicos. Born in Caesarea in 348 AD into the family of St. Nerses, St. Sahak Partev became
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If you’re someone like me who sometimes has a difficult time picturing ancient history, here are some of my favorite and accurate artistic representations/photos of ancient Mesopotamia This drawing is
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Five years ago today, Islamic State beheaded the Syrian archaeologist Khaled al-Asaad in Palmyra. The jhadis had conquered the city a few weeks before and were setting about their own
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Carl Sagan was a brilliant astronomer, author, and professor.He's well known for being the presenter of the popular PBS series "Cosmos."Here are some of my favorite thoughts on books from
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Thank you so much to the incredible @gregjenner and his team for having me on "You're Dead to Me" and to @kaekurd for being so hilarious and bringing Gilgamesh the
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Thread documenting Iraqi culture by me: https://twitter.com/MidEastWitness/status/1082518665520664576 https://twitter.com/MidEastWitness/status/1108056769501319168 https://twitter.com/MidEastWitness/status/1105162704619216899 https://twitte
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1. #Turkey is a completely unhinged nation with an unhinged government. Turkey is a threat to humanity, to the civilization. Turkey will be the cause of #WW3 — we are
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After seeing that bot account post lies suggesting that being Christian is somehow punishable by death in Iran, I want to clarify some things:First of all, no. It's not. There
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[ Thread ]Short and easy falsification of the silliest post ever.#BlackHistoryMonth https://twitter.com/amnesty/status/1356291978225459202 [ American History ]A) Indians trade 90-lb packs of furs at a Hudson's Bay Company trading
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People who ought to be canonized—a thread. Don Christopher da Gama (son of Vasco da Gama) led an expeditionary force of 400 Portuguese musketeers into Ethiopia, saving her from conquest
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Hello from my brain, which has been thinking about the carving and castration and replacement of the testicles on Oscar Wilde's tomb in Paris' Père Lachaise cemetery. Here's a short
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Addressing this murtad.[Thread]https://twitter.com/amethystlyy/status/1287374579397083141 Before I begin, someone else has a fantastic thread and I definitely recommend you to check it out. With that out of the way, let's begin.https://
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[THREAD]1/19Long, long ago there was a people that lived someplace in the steppes of Eurasia who spoke a language linguists call, quite unimaginatively, the Proto-Indo-European tongue or PIE. Here, we're
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