#Ptolemaic

The Ancient Egyptian creation story, shows Nut and Geb as fiery lovers, once, they embraced so tightly that nothing could come between them. Shu became jealous and to separate them

Monica (has a marvelous time ruining everything)

Making historical dynastic family trees was supposed to be fun but instead I just spend hours raging about the rampant incest in the Ptolemaic and Seleucid families. If anyone is

Sarah DEMOCRACY IS BACK Parcak

Whew here we go. Lots of folks are upset about this choice. A thread about Cleopatra, and her ethnicity/ “look”, and why this is considered controversial 1/? (FWIW: I’m an

ColorsAndStones

COLORS of PORPHYRYRhyolite porphyry = porfido rosso laterizio (Italian name).Guarried at the Wadi Abu Gerida quarry, Eastern Desert, Egypt, first time used during the Roman period.It's a less commonly used

So I suppose we've all seen the hoo ha about Gal Gadot playing Cleoptra and why this is Clearly Terrible Casting And Absolutely Not Because She's Israeli Or Jewish, No

Antiscias can be a really obscure topic. However, through the lens of the astrologer Firmicus Maternus (4th century CE), I’ll be doing an analysis of some things about this aspect

This leaked internal Facebook report on its content moderation failures (and qualified successes) leading up the Jan. 6 riot makes for a fascinating, concerning, and also just plain ~weird~ read.https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/ryanmac/

Samantha Pritchard

Still annoyed thinking about this tweet. We all know Exodus isn’t remotely historically accurate, up to being just a total myth without reference to any historical event at all, but

Ancient Egyptian Writing. In the last part of the Predynastic Period, 6000-3150 BCE Anc. Egyptians began to use symbols to represent simple concepts limited to notations to identify a person,

Dr. Phil Metzger

I was in Home Depot and saw the Farmer’s Almanac in the checkout line so I snapped this. Almanacs since the 1600s have been publishing lists of planets. It is

The cosmic movements of the heavenly bodies has always intrigued mankind all throughout history. To depict this "moving of the gods", the earliest civilizations used feathered wings to symbolize the

Yanis يانيس ⵣ🇲🇦🌴

THREAD : Pourquoi l'Égypte Antique n'était pas noire 1) La langue égyptienne appartient au même groupe linguistique que les langues berbères et sémitiques (langues afro-asiatiques) et la langue parlée

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Thread: HERMES TRISMEGISTUS, the man, the myth, the legend - WHO IS HE! Chapter 1: Trismegistus Legend takes us to the beginning of the Egyptian civilization & religion and to

~world’s most obvious alexander complex~🌹

if you ever wonder why i got politically 'radicalized' it's because i grew up in alabama as an athiest child of two biochemistry professors; at 17 i graduated and moved

𝕵𝖆𝖈𝖐 𝕷𝖔𝖓𝖉𝖔𝖓 Γρύλος Λονδίνο 🌱🇬🇧 🍥

𝕾𝖊𝖈𝖗𝖊𝖙 𝕾𝖈𝖗𝖎𝖕𝖙𝖘 𝖆𝖓𝖉 𝕮𝖎𝖕𝖍𝖊𝖗𝖘As soon as our species was able to convey information to one another by means of reading and writing, we began to invent different sorts of alphabets

Thread! Thomas Kuhn (1922-1996) was an American physicist and historian of science. In 1962 he wrote a short book (he calls it an essay) called The Structure of Scientific Revolutions.