#Minoan

Great talk on "The Deep State in the Ancient World" by Louise Hitchcock at #asor2020 yesterday. First, reinterpreting Minoan "palaces" as "temples" & proposing Crete had a Sumer-style temple-based economy
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1/ Ok, today on #Archaeology_Online we'll try and navigatre our way through a #thread with an indecipherable text, archaeology & geography to try & make sense of the myth of
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Thread (longish): During the excavations of the the Temple Repositories at Knossos, among many early 2nd millennium BC faience (glazed ceramic) objects, Arthur Evans unearthed ceramic crocuses and models of
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THE TYRIAN PURPLE1st picture: Female statuette, 4th BC, Taranto's Archaeological Museum2nd picture: Purple page from the 6th century AD Codex Argenteus.3rd Fragment of the shroud in which Emperor Charlemagne was
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ancient blue update. they published a new paper where they figure out what LindyMan told you years ago. That blue is the color of the sacred in the ancient world
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Sintashta CARTS. Definitely NOT CHARIOTS:- as per chariot-experts Littauer & Crouwel 1996, reviewing Anthony 1995 and prior (Gening etc)- from Kuznetsov 2006 it's apparent there's no new "chariot" finds in
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1/ One never tires of the Greek isles and the archaeology there. #Archaeology_Online today travels to one of the most important sites in mainland Greece, the site that lent its
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Columns Architecture [thread] Sigismund's Column, originally erected in 1644, is located at Castle Square, Warsaw, Poland and is one of Warsaw's most famous landmarks as well as the first
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How did we go from the marble figurines of prehistory to the familiar facades of Cycladic villages today?It’s day 3 of @Tweetistorian on Naxos with @LevineRx, which means it’s time
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OKKKKKK so my museum brain is slowly mulching whilst on furlough so I have decided that I am going to do a post each day analysing EVERY place setting on
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There Were Brown People In Ancient Rome (Which Was A Multicultural Empire) And So Artistic Depictions Of (Yes, Even Aristocratic) Roman Poets Where They Have Dark Skin Are Fine And
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Sejarah Laut Jawa Purba dan Misteri Pantai Mistis Berpasir Putih yang Tak Bertuan... Thread ... Ngomongin laut Jawa purba, maka umumnya orang Indonesia akan tertarik pada teori peradaban Atlantis yang
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Most people following Q and the great awakening are familiar with this structure: I have been extremely confounded by this horrid building, for reasons that are probably obvious to anybody
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Here's my contribution to Threadapalooza's 2020 kickoffA History of the World in 100 Objects In 2010, the @britishmuseum published the greatest podcast of all timeIt told the history of the
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SPECIAL HALLOWEEN THREAD Have you ever felt unease walking around your city? Have you ever experienced discomfort from a building or urban environment? The reason might be due to the
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