#Ancient

Ethan "Mr.E" Schoonover

ethanschoonover

A reminder that Chutes and Ladders is really just Snakes and Ladders, an ancient Indian board game going back to at least 200 BCE. Adding some more original snakes and

Felix Key

fm_key

I am excited to share our new paper about the emergence of human-adapted Salmonella enterica linked to the Neolithization process. https://www.nature.com/articles/s41559-020-1106-9Find below a summary of the main findings in a

🆘Rev Magdalen | Protect the Results

revmagdalen

Bill Maher blames China's bad "habits" for this pandemic, like America's not pumping greenhouse gasses into the atmosphere nonstop, knowing that every day the polar ice melts, ancient pathogens could

Fade

fadeaccompli

Today's goal is to read as many Caesar lives as I can from Suetonius, and then go play a video game. Yesterday's meeting about Tacitus included the confession that I

#DextrousNinja🇮🇳

DextrousNinja

Maa Kali, Russia & UkraineA 7th Century Goddess Kali Idol, was found in Staraya Maina Village, RussiaStaraya Maina village in Ulyanovsk region was a highly populated city 1700 years ago,

Abigail Shrier

AbigailShrier

One thing I’ve learned from this period is just how bad school is. Nearly every innovation over the last generation has made it worse. Take textbooks. My kids have none

Sentona 𓅃

sentona97

On the symbolism of warriors, Tartarus and the west.The warrior is the one in close connection to the rebirth aspect because he was closely linked to death itself. Through their

Rebecca Futo Kennedy 🏛️ 🏺

kataplexis

It’s Mother’s Day! And as both a mother and an Ancient historian, I thought I would make a somewhat #unpopularopinion thread on how we celebrate women and talk about them

Stephen DeCasien

SDeCasien

1. All this Salamis talk makes me think of the Olympias! A thread on the background and information of the experimental archaeological trireme the Olympias! #ClassicsTwitter #trireme #ancienthistory #ancientwarfare 2.

Friendless Churches

friendschurches

What makes St Baglans special? Is it the sentient landscape? The ancient, shady mountains that watched humans arrive. The clump of gnarled trees stretching their branches protectively around the church.

NMS Partnerships

NMSPartnerships

As we come to the end of the Ancient Egypt and East Asia National Programme we are delighted to share the collections reviews with you. We also want to thank

Stilgherrian

stilgherrian

ATTENTION! A stone tool has just been found near @bunjaree. But is it ancient or is it an enthusiast’s modern work?Here is the operating position. More pictures follow. That’s a

Corey Quinn

QuinnyPig

Ancient sysadmin wisdom: don’t use ‘>’ as part of your shell prompt. You’re one copy/paste error away from truncating a file. There’s a reason root’s ‘#’ prompt gets interpreted as

𓋹𓍑𓋴Nyatsimba Mutota

lumekaaveknew

In “an Egyptian Hieroglyphic Dictionary” compiled by Sir E A Wallis Budge (an English Egyptologist, Orientalist, and philologist) the word KHENT means THE BIGINNING, the LAND SOUTH OF EGYPT. KHENTI

Fr Dylan Schrader

FrDylanSchrader

The Catholic Church must revive its use of the Latin language. I am convinced this work is more urgent and important than most realize. Given all the crises we face,

Pádraig Belton

PadraigBelton

Twitter save my marriage. Are these milks or milk? I just have to drag this out a little more: ‘Sometimes the ancient greek 'γάλα' is indeclinable, but if it was