#Medieval

History of Central Asia and Khorâsan

BiruniKhorasan

The Afghan Persian word for hospital is "Shifa Khane" (شیفا خانه): "House of Health".The Iranian Persian word for hospital is "Bimaristan" (بیمارستان): "Place of Sickness".I think the Afghan version is

Joseph T Noony

JoeAgneya

Jesuits, 'soldiers of Christ', aren't your average priests. An order founded in 1540, it had great emphasis on scholarship, learning native languages and unorthodox approaches to missionary work. Pope Francis

Amit Schandillia

Schandillia

[THREAD]1/38Once upon a time, a man we know little of today traveled out of Ḥalab (today's Aleppo), crossed the Khyber, and settled in Uch Gilaniyan, a small town in Bahawalpur

oldeuropeanculture

serbiaireland

Thread: Bogatyrs (1898) Painting by Viktor Mikhaylovich Vasnetsov. A bogatyr is a character in medieval East Slavic legends, akin to a Western European knight. I would here like to talk

Vlast

Vlast__

1 Rt = 1 Esoteric extremely based hot take 1. Eat all your fish wild caught, otherwise you get the gay Pisciculturists are famous for

Pulp Librarian

PulpLibrarian

A woman with great hair is fleeing a gothic house. This is a signal to the reader that this is one of ‘those’ books – not a historical romance or

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PharoahMelvin

2020 PREDICTIONS THREAD 1) rappers start carrying blinged out medieval weaponry around as a status symbol. Offset has an especially impressive ceremonial mace made of fossils or something 2) brief

Secret SoSHHiety

SouledOutWorld

The Ancient History of the Black NobilityBy Bible Believers Australia(Thread)In Carthage, the Canaanites called themselves Punics.https://twitter.com/SouledOutWorld/status/1212542681047609345 Rome attacked Carthage in full force, beginning

J.A. Miraj

DeseretMiraj

Until comparatively recently in Islamic history, it was perfectly normal to show the Prophet Muhammed, either fully or with his face hidden. Even when I was a fundamentalist, Muslim I

Jamie Ashley

JamieAshle

#PrehistoryOfPenwith: A ThreadThe end of #Cornwall where I live, #Penwith, is incredibly rich in prehistory.I know very little about our standing stones/circles and fogous so this thread's here for me

Celtic Medusa Rose-FromTheGrave-ns

CMRosens

Just started a free Gothic Fiction class with @RomGothSam - looking today at types of demons in Gothic texts. Starting with interacting with the paradigms and understandings of the devil/demonic

FabienBP

FabienBP

Pour les Journées européennes du patrimoine, un thread sur l'histoire du patrimoine et des musées de Grande Grèce, notamment celui de Tarente avec lequel je collabore pour mon projet #Feminicon.

MonkeyOnTheMountainⓋ

Monk_Po

Good to see #LiDAR getting more use / coverage ... "Lost Bronze Age hill forts discovered in Devon" https://www.devonlive.com/news/devon-news/lost-bronze-age-hill-forts-4091969. That's Windmill Clump https://www.heritagegatewa

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soowonheika

[Thread]I'm going to put the links to a bunch of albums that I listen to when I'm stressed out, just in case you all need something new to listen to.

Rabbi Danya Ruttenberg

TheRaDR

Left: Antisemitic caricature from an English royal tax record in 1233. Right: An image from a GOP mailer from this week. This here is a thread. 1/x First, link to

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PandaScottish

[thread]Just imagine in the midst of pandemic with tens of thousands dead and yet more tens of thousands who are going to die. A comedian joked about letting the bodies