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Different angles of ancient & some medieval ruins & artifacts. Creator of The Cobra Effect Podcast. Pics 100% from my phone 📸. Descriptions in 🇬🇧 🇫🇷 🇪🇸.
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It is one of the most spectacular items in the National Archaeological Museum of Naples. Sculpted at the beginning of the 3rd century A.D., the Farnese Hercules was one of the more than 120 figures that embellished the Baths of Caracalla in Rome. A marble colossus
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@shivlestat
My favorite quote from her: "does it ever get cold in your high moral grounds?"
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🇬🇧 Housed in the Capitoline Museums, this is one of the “heavyweights” of my archive of photos. Standing up to 39 feet tall, the bronze colossus of Constantine I the Great (or maybe his son, Constantius II) must have been an awe-inspiring vision. Probably made sometime
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🇬🇧 The close-up fresco depicts a Bronze-Age Minoan warrior. It is a segment of a fresco painted somewhere before 1650 or 1550 BC found in Akrotiri, and it is currently displayed at the Museum of Prehistoric Thera in Santorini. Notice the helmet. It is a boar’s tusk helmet, and it
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@historydefined
- The Magna Charta (1215)
- The Model Parliament (1295)
- The Bill of Rights (1689)
- The Slave Trade Act (1807), The Slavery Abolition Act (1833), and the Royal Navy's role in fighting the transatlantic slave trade.
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@MemoriasPez
Cuando Mises escribió "El Socialismo" en 1922, todavía sonaban los cañones de la Guerra Civil Rusa. Sabía el austríaco que la imposibilidad del cálculo económico solo daría miseria, material y humana. Una junta de planificación central no puede decidir por millones de individuos
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@WorldIPictures
No. Señores el primer mapa no. Los romanos no llegaron por ejemplo a lo que hoy es Irlanda o Escocia o los países nórdicos. Ese mapa es un bulo que lleva rato circulando en las redes. Esa no es la Vía Apia o sus caminos adyacentes.
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Tell Cato and Scipio that we brought more elephants this time. 🐘🐘🐘
📸 at the Pantheon :)
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🇬🇧: Eagle Warriors were elite soldiers of the Aztec empire. In the Nahuatl language, they were called cuauhtli (singular) or cuauhmeh (plural). Together with the Jaguar Warriors, these special members of the army were part of a sort of knight’s order feared on the battlefield.
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@CultureExploreX
This is a great list! Let me include some women from the ancient world:
- Enheduanna
- Hatshepsut
- Tomyris
- Ennigaldi-Nanna
- Olympias of Epirus
- Boudica
- Amanirenas
- Zenobia (in the painting below)
- Agrippina the Younger
- Hypatia
- Theodora
In my opinion, Zenobia is for
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I post every two days but today I'll break my rules. Below is the Garland Bowl. Roman, late 1st century BC - early 1st century AD. I saw it at the MET earlier this month. The website description reads: "Like a rainbow pizza pie, this bowl is made of four slices of glass in
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🇬🇧: The interior courtyard of the National Archaeological Museum in Athens is full of surprises. This mosaic representing the head of Medusa is one of them. She has wings on her forehead and snakes in her hair. Ivy leaves garnish the four corners of the entire mosaic. It dates
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🇬🇧 In a similar tone to my last post, let's continue to look at how antiquity was full of color. The Museum of Prehistoric Thera is small. Yet, this jewel of Santorini allows us to glimpse and witness the Bronze Age like very few other museums worldwide. The museum's lower
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🇬🇧 English: The Maya rain god Chaac looks down sternly from the four outer walls of The Church. On the southern corner of Chichen Itza, this small rectangular building has a single room with a single entrance and is notable for its striking façade. Stepped friezes and a
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@tommyhigham
I imagine a vibe like the House of Capulet vs the House of Montague. What an exciting discovery.
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🇬🇧: The left coin is a bronze sestertius of Titus showing the Flavian Amphitheatre, better known today as the Colosseum. The right coin is also a bronze sestertius of Trajan showing the Circus Maximus.
You can find Trajan’s Circus Maximus Sestertius for something in the range of
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@archi_tradition
My heart wants to say the Greco-Roman civilization but deep down I know it was these guys:
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🇬🇧: This fresco depicting the Trojans entering the wooden horse through their walls was found in Pompeii and probably dates from sometime in the first half of the first century BC.
According to the descriptive plaque, this piece belongs to the National Archaeological Museum of
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It’s sunset, and an airplane flies high above the Temple of Hephaestus. A marvel of modern human ingenuity pays homage to the ancient god of metallurgy and craftsmanship.
Athens, April 2024.
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#Athens
#Greece
#Hephaestus
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🇬🇧: Islam and Judaism forbid any physical representation of God. Christianity has struggled within itself with this idea even to this day. Iconoclasm, the war on icons, shook the religious foundations of the Byzantine Empire in the VIII and IX centuries. However, this theological
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🇬🇧: Egyptologists currently credit Imhotep with designing and constructing the first Egyptian pyramid. Located in the Saqqara necropolis, the step pyramid of Djoser (first pharaoh of the Third Dynasty who ruled from around 2592 to 2566 BC) stands 205 ft tall and was the tallest
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🇬🇧 This is a tecpatl, one of the “craziest” artifacts I have ever seen in a museum. It is housed in the Museo Nacional de Antropología, in Mexico City. The description given by the museum reads: “The primordial object used in human sacrifice was the knife with a wooden handle and
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🇬🇧 Seen last April at the Acropolis Museum. This is the description under it: The lion-head waterspout of the Northeast corner of the Parthenon. The marble sima (gutter) set on the raking cornice of the pediments ended in lion heads worked in the round at the corners. They were
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You probably know about the Artemis/Diana of Ephesus statue, but have you seen its back? Or have you seen its many figures in detail? Let’s explore the symbols and history of the goddess to whom one of the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World was dedicated.
This statue is part of
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🇬🇧 The Vergina Sun or Argead Star.
The first photo is a Macedonian-type shield characteristic of the Hellenistic Period. It is in the MET museum in New York, and the inscription says: “Of King Demetrius.” It probably refers to Demetrius Poliorcetes, “the Besieger of Cities,”
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@fakehistoryhunt
It reminds me of Julius Caesar's famous words on the beaches of Normandy: "aaaaagggrrrrr"
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🇬🇧 Homage to the Optimus Princeps. On a day like today in the year 53, Marcus Ulpius Traianus was born in the Roman province of Hispania Baetica, in what today is Spain. He would ascend to the purple in the year 98 to become, I believe, the empire's best ruler. Today, I want to
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“Beauty will save the world.”
― Fyodor Dostoevsky, The Idiot
📸: Dome of Saint Peter’s Basilica, 2023.
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Let's start the week with 16 real b
@dass
women of the ancient world. I made a comment a few days ago here on Twitter, and it inspired me to work on this list. There have always been women in History. Some were famous for the people they shared their bed-chambers with, such as
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🇬🇧 After inhaling hallucinogenic vapors, the Pythoness conveyed Apollo’s message to the mortal who sought his counsel. However, in its more than one thousand years of predictions, the Oracle of Delphi was rarely clear in its messages. Once the event in question was consummated,
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🇬🇧 It may have been part of the top of a column or a pair of statues guarding the doorways of the palace complex of Persepolis. A city founded by Darius I (522 – 486 BC) and sacked and burned by Alexander the Great’s army in 330 BC. The details on this lion head are as impressive
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@0xAlaric
It reminds me of Porphyrios the whale who terrorized Byzantine seafarers for 50 years.
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🇬🇧 Sunset view from the Temple of Poseidon at Cape Sounion, Greece. A spectacular homage the ancient Greeks gave to the god of the sea.
🇪🇸 Vista del atardecer desde el Templo de Poseidón en el cabo Sunio, Grecia. Un espectacular homenaje que los antiguos griegos dieron al dios
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How a Pompeian saw death that fatal day of 79 AD.
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🇬🇧 This Assyrian bas-relief is one of my favorites. It depicts an Apkallu, meaning genie or sage; this is a protective winged being, sometimes with a human or an eagle head. Referred sometimes as The Seven Sages, the gods themselves gave the Apkallu exceptional wisdom. They
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🇬🇧 Emperor Claudius died
#onthisday
of the year AD 54. Ancient sources claimed he was poisoned with mushrooms and that his fourth and last wife, Agrippina “the Younger,” was behind the plot. Here is his colossal statue housed in the Vatican Museums. The museum’s description
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Thomas Jefferson admired the Pantheon in Rome. In a letter to James Sloan dated June 15th, 1818, he wrote: “I have experienced but one disappointment in reading your book, that of not finding the Pantheon among your enchanting descriptions. This building, I consider as the
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@HeraklesCithare
La colonne ressemble à celles du Trésor d'Atrée (je les ai vues en avril dernier au Musée archéologique national d'Athènes). L'épée confirmerait qu'il s'agit d'un décor mycénien. La robe et le buste nu semblent minoens (comme la déesse au serpent du musée d'Héraklion), mais
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@Assurbaniapli7
Excelente thread! Also, what Heraclius did was nothing short of an almost miracle. Rearranging and arming the empire again and most importantly, being able to do so under the dire financial situation Phocas had left behind. I also love the first pic you chose. Is it the Lion Hunt
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🇬🇧 Today, I will tell you about my visit to Herculaneum and the extraordinary story I could see weaving between the site's brochures. I had been waiting for weeks to have the time to sit down and tell you about it. I’ll go in order of photos.
It turns out that being so close to
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🇬🇧 The first photo is more famous. It is from the south inner panel of the Arch of Titus in Rome. It depicts the spoils taken from the Temple of Jerusalem during the First Jewish–Roman War that started in AD 66. The second photo is a curious cameo copy made of alabaster sometime
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🇬🇧 I know Moo Deng is viral right now on TikTok, so let me bring you this ancient Egyptian hippo. It is currently housed at the MET and the museum’s website description reads: “This extraordinarily lifelike animal head was once part of a hippopotamus statue about three feet in
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@chapps
The last hours of those ~340 in the vaults in front of the beach, the “fornici,” must have been terrible. Interestingly, the janitor of the College of the Augustales was found laying on his bed! Her was committed till the end.
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@xmuse_
The Thomas Jefferson Memorial is inspired by it! Even in his memory, Jefferson reveres the Parthenon.
*The pic is from March 2022
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@CokeTime2
@MemoriasPez
a, por eso a Cuba y Corea del Norte les va tan bien con los medios "tecnológicos modernos" de planificación. Por eso China y Vietnam corren a cambiar su modelo económico a uno de inspiración soviética. Por favor.
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I have no post for today, but there is a long 🧵for tomorrow about real b
@dass
women of the ancient world.
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@Cuauhtemoc_1521
La novela "El hombre que amaba los perros" de Leonardo Padura tiene a Trotski y Ramón Mercader como personajes principales. ¡La recomiendo mucho!
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@historydefined
In no particular order:
- The Life of Others
- One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
- Jojo Rabbit
- Life is beautiful
- A.I. Artificial Intelligence
I have not had the heart to watch Sophie's Choice.
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@UpdatingOnRome
Fun fact, this is for an episode I am writing: the largest baseball stadium in the world by seating capacity is the Dodger Stadium. It can accommodate up to 56,000 people. The seating capacity of the Colosseum is estimated to have been between 50,000 and… 80,000 people. The
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@MoradaFriki
Todos los que somos cubanos!!! Era esta de biología y "Érase una vez el hombre", de historia. 🙂
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Shammuramat (850 - 798 BC): Some identify her with the legendary Semiramis. She was a powerful queen of the Neo-Assyrian Empire. Wife of King Shamshi-Adad V and mother of the next King Adad-nigari III, Shammuramat may have been co-regent during the years of her son. As far
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@Locati0ns
The first map cannot be about the Roman empire. They did not reach all those areas, for example as it shows for what is now Ireland and the northern part of Scotland. The Via Appia was extensive and impressive. A marvel of its time. But not that map.
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Tomyris (6th century BC): She was the queen of the Massagetae, a people who inhabited the steppes of Central Asia. When Cyrus the Great was at the height of the Achaemenid Empire (aka Persian Empire), he decided to expand his dominion over the unfathomable steppes to the
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Hatshepsut (1507 – 1458 BC): Second female pharaoh of Egypt. She ruled first as regent, then as queen regnant from around 1479 - 1458 BC. Under her reign, Egypt saw great prosperity. We owe her marvels such as the Karnak Temple Complex. In significant part thanks to
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Ennigaldi-Nanna (547 – 500 BC): As with Enheduanna, Ennigaldi-Nanna was also the high priestess of the moon-God Sin in the city of Ur. She was the daughter of Nabonidus, making her a princess of the Neo-Babylonian Empire. But there were many princesses and queens in the
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Puduhepa (13th century BC): Queen of the Hittite Empire. Her roles and power exceeded those of a traditional queen during the reigns of her husband, Ḫattusili III, and her son, Tudhaliya IV. Her correspondence and seal impressions (photo below) are evidence of this when,
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Enheduanna (2334 – 2279 BC): Earliest known author in world history! Scholar Paul Kriwaczek writes: Her compositions, though only rediscovered in modern times, remained models of petitionary prayer for centuries. Through the Babylonians, they influenced and inspired the
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Theodora (490 – AD 548): She was a Byzantine empress and wife of emperor Justinian I (the Great). Much has been said about Theodora. In the Hippodrome of Constantinople, her father was a bear trainer, and her mother a dancer and actress. The historian of the time,
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Nefertiti (1370 – c. 1330 BC): Wife of the pharaoh Amenhotep IV of the 18th Dynasty of Egypt. During the fifth year of his reign, Amenhotep IV changed his name to Akhenaten, leading a complete revolution in the Egyptian religion. As such, the pharaoh replaced the pantheon of
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@Majora__Z
Thank you for your comment! It certainly enriches the post. 🙂 The illustrations are 🔥🔥🔥
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@hering_david
Mario Vargas Llosa punched in the face Gabriel García Márquez in 1976 when they saw each other out of a movie theater. García Márquez even fell. He died without saying the reason behind it. Vargas Llosa, still alive, promised never to reveal the truth.
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Boudica (mid-1st century AD): She is a British national heroine. She challenged the Roman conquest of Britannia, and some believe she almost succeeded. Boudica was queen of the Iceni tribe and led an uprising against the Roman Empire in AD 60 or 61. In his will, her husband
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There were also b
@dass
women in medieval times:
- Fatima al-Fihri: She is credited as the founder of the first university in History.
- Wu Zetian: Imagine a region with thousands of years of History, such as China, and being considered the only legitimate female sovereign. She
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@romanosehizo
¿Y me vas a decir que Pullo y Vorenus no salvaron a Octaviano y encontraron el águila robada?
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@antigua_roma
Por lo que he visto del trailer, el crimen de Ridley Scott es poner a Caracalla como un muchacho medio bobo e infantil (por lo que he visto hasta ahora) y no como el tipo tan complejo que fue, de ceño fruncido y dado a la vida militar. Un personaje importantísimo con muchos
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Amanirenas (end of the 1st century BC – beginning of the 1st century AD): Queen (with the title of Kandake) of the Kingdom of Kush (modern-day Sudan). Strabo, a Greek philosopher and historian of the time, describes her as blind in one eye. After Octavian (later Augustus)
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@historydefined
Part of the foundations for Western civilization and the inspiration for Russell Crowe's masterpiece.
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@africanae9732
Netflix should have done a documentary on Amanirenas and the powerful many other Kandake of the Kingdom of Kush instead of that "thing" about Cleopatra. Yes, I am still mad about it. Great thread!
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@histories_arch
Unfortunately, that room in the MET is closed until 2026, but you can see a similar panel at the Brooklyn Museum. I visited it earlier this month. If you are in Europe, the Vatican Museums also have it. Here is a pic from the Brooklyn Museum:
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Hypatia (350 or 370 – AD 415): She was a prominent intellectual and an influential figure in Alexandria, at the time part of the Eastern Roman Empire. The Encyclopedia Britannica summarizes her legacy much better than I would: She was, in her time, the world's leading
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Agrippina the Younger (15 – AD 59): Roman empress. Fourth wife and niece of emperor Claudius, and the mother of Nero. I had a hard time including her on this list. She was the second to ever receive the title of Augusta. The first was Livia, Augustus's wife. But you see,
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Artemisia I of Caria (early 5th century BC): Queen of the ancient Greek city-state of Halicarnassus. I first heard of her when I read Creation, Gore Vidal's novel, in which she has a relationship with the Persian general Mardonius. Intriguing, cunning, and brave, Gore Vidal
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@Sr_Fonseca
La calaña intelectual de esos dos me recuerda que todo circo siempre va a tener payasos. Del bobo de Miraflores, ni hablar.
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