#Ptolemy

shrikanth_krish

Fascinating account of how the great Greek mathematician Eratosthenes figured the circumference of the EarthHis estimate was 28,000 miles - about 15% higher than the actual figure of 24,901 miles

Anne Thériault

Cleopatra: looks like we had twinsCleopatra: I named them after two great world leadersMark Antony: I love you too, babeCleopatra: no I mean after Alexander the Great and also me

Derek | The Hellenistic Age Podcast

In ~301 BC, Demetrius I Poliorcetes hosted a banquet, & according to Plutarch a toast was made to his kingship. His rival Diadochi, on the other hand, were referred to:

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

Greek Myths- No 1'Claudius Ptolemy' supposedly lived in ~150 CE Egypt. And whatever Egyptian/Babylonian epistemic knowledge he had is treated as 'Greek Knowledge' without question. And western historians have been

You’ve probably heard of the infamous Rosetta Stone, but do you know just how important it is in piecing together the past civilization of ancient Egypt? The Rosetta Stone is

It's time for #EuropeanBios entry number 8, Cleopatra, and it is a treat. It turns out absolutely everything I ever heard about Cleopatra is wrong, the truth is much more

Elaine van Dalen

A few days ago I tweeted a picture of a clock in Germany with an illustration of ʿAlī Ibn Riḍwān. Who was he?A thread on a pretty fascinating Egyptian physician.

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A summary of the storyline in the OnlyOneOf universe This is only a theory, and as things continue to be revealed and discovered, some aspects of it could be debunked

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

MeghdootDiaries

1/ Tamralipti, one of India's first ancient ports; is identified at modern day Tamluk in West Bengal (around 100 km from Kolkata)A humble museum located on a congested shopping street

Darshana🇮🇳

Ancient Prime Meridian - UjjainUjjain is literally the crossroad of Space and Time in India. This renowned and ancient city is famous for spiritual as well as scientific reasons. It

THREAD: On the Gorgon and female rage(also: look, the Gorgon is female.) What is a Gorgon? Our earliest literary record of the term is in the Iliad (~900 BCE), Bk

MAGA/ Magus/ Magi/ MagickHat tip @AnonymousSage1 for the great find and inspiration for this thread.https://twitter.com/FurorRises/status/1246834800863752193?s=19 In India, there was/is a group known as Maga. They are Zoroastrian priests, also known

Ahab Bdaiwi איהאבּ ܐܝܗܐܒ

bdaiwi_historia

1/The N-Poem (نونيات) is a genre of medieval Arabic literature in the form of a lyrical stanza. A favourite of mine is that of al-Qaḥṭānī al-Andalusī (d. 10th C). The

On Kenya’s Public Sphere. A long threadDemocracy is often characterized as government by deliberation. This presupposes wherewithal to engage in reasoned public debate. My lessons from debating Kipkorir on the