Tutankhamun’s Afterlife Workforce: 413 Servants in a Box 🧵
1/6. A cobra-hood, a crowned goddess, and a line of mummiform figures.
This case is basically an ancient security manual: protect the king, enforce the ritual, keep the system running. https://t.co/1OHdXwrDS1
1/6. A cobra-hood, a crowned goddess, and a line of mummiform figures.
This case is basically an ancient security manual: protect the king, enforce the ritual, keep the system running. https://t.co/1OHdXwrDS1
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Everyone calls this the Zoroastrian logo.
But at Persepolis it floats above the king like a seal of legitimacy. Scholars debate the figure: Ahura Mazda or khvarenah (royal glory). The winged disk itself is older than Persia.
If experts disagree, why are captions so confident? https://t.co/O3syHNiV5f
But at Persepolis it floats above the king like a seal of legitimacy. Scholars debate the figure: Ahura Mazda or khvarenah (royal glory). The winged disk itself is older than Persia.
If experts disagree, why are captions so confident? https://t.co/O3syHNiV5f
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Tutankhamun, now in the pyramids’ shadow
The gold mask and the Tutankhamun gallery are now showcased at the Grand Egyptian Museum in Giza, basically next door to the Great Pyramids.
His mummy stays in KV62 in Luxor, so the body stays in the tomb while the treasures move to a https://t.co/k46GcFwsTA
The gold mask and the Tutankhamun gallery are now showcased at the Grand Egyptian Museum in Giza, basically next door to the Great Pyramids.
His mummy stays in KV62 in Luxor, so the body stays in the tomb while the treasures move to a https://t.co/k46GcFwsTA
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5,200 years ago , while Egyptians were building the first pyramids , people in North America were already carving dugout canoes.
A 14-foot vessel recently pulled from Wisconsin’s Lake Mendota proves Indigenous ingenuity ran deep long before pharaohs ruled the Nile.
History https://t.co/1Ufz1CQiOX
A 14-foot vessel recently pulled from Wisconsin’s Lake Mendota proves Indigenous ingenuity ran deep long before pharaohs ruled the Nile.
History https://t.co/1Ufz1CQiOX
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🚨 The alphabet origin story just shifted
At Tell Umm el-Marra in northern Syria near Aleppo, archaeologists recovered four finger-length clay cylinders from an Early Bronze Age elite tomb context, perforated like tags and dated around 2400 BCE. The excitement is simple: the https://t.co/DXcQFV8nTV
At Tell Umm el-Marra in northern Syria near Aleppo, archaeologists recovered four finger-length clay cylinders from an Early Bronze Age elite tomb context, perforated like tags and dated around 2400 BCE. The excitement is simple: the https://t.co/DXcQFV8nTV
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Ostia Antica looks like ruins, but it is really a thesis: empires run on circulation.
Here, grain, oil, wine, and people moved from sea to river, turning logistics into politics. When the port flows, the capital feels eternal. When it chokes, even a superpower becomes fragile. https://t.co/K0Ia1RIX3R
Here, grain, oil, wine, and people moved from sea to river, turning logistics into politics. When the port flows, the capital feels eternal. When it chokes, even a superpower becomes fragile. https://t.co/K0Ia1RIX3R
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Have you heard this?
According to a chain of medieval sources, from Syriac & Arabic universal histories that linked Cain, from the bible, descendants with Ancient fortified cities & pre‑Flood giants.
>Cain built Baalbek<
Baalbek home of the Trillithon in current day Lebanon. https://t.co/q7a7OlDLrS
According to a chain of medieval sources, from Syriac & Arabic universal histories that linked Cain, from the bible, descendants with Ancient fortified cities & pre‑Flood giants.
>Cain built Baalbek<
Baalbek home of the Trillithon in current day Lebanon. https://t.co/q7a7OlDLrS
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Athenian potter Sotades made this Amazon-on-horseback rhyton (~440 BCE). Persian-style drinking horn, Greek-made, buried in a Kushite royal tomb at Meroë (Sudan). On the cup: a Persian rider beating a Greek. When you drank, whose worldview did you ingest? https://t.co/pbpSYtRPxc
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An obelisk is a ruler that refuses to lie. 23 m of Aswan granite at Luxor, carved for Ramesses II, every hieroglyph cut in sunken relief to turn sunlight into meaning. Its twin stands in Paris. Some phrases were even coded. What does your skyline whisper? https://t.co/u1grKQcw5R
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History Was Meant to Be Walked On
This mosaic was not placed on a wall to be admired from a distance.
It was laid underfoot, meant to be crossed, lived with, slowly worn by time.
Ancient people understood something we forgot:
history is not a spectacle, it is a foundation.
You https://t.co/UyVf3h8yMW
This mosaic was not placed on a wall to be admired from a distance.
It was laid underfoot, meant to be crossed, lived with, slowly worn by time.
Ancient people understood something we forgot:
history is not a spectacle, it is a foundation.
You https://t.co/UyVf3h8yMW
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At Dendera, the walls still glow with the original ancient colours, untouched by modern restoration. Blues that shouldn’t exist. Reds that still burn.
Greens that refuse to fade.
Thousands of years have passed… yet the palette of the ancients remains alive. https://t.co/9HLogtpxm4
Greens that refuse to fade.
Thousands of years have passed… yet the palette of the ancients remains alive. https://t.co/9HLogtpxm4
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Lycia framed death as a voyage.
So tomb lids mimic an upturned boat hull.
But this one has a hole cut into the stone.
A window? A lock? An offering port for wine or oil?
https://t.co/zNsKHKG3M7
So tomb lids mimic an upturned boat hull.
But this one has a hole cut into the stone.
A window? A lock? An offering port for wine or oil?
https://t.co/zNsKHKG3M7
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Zeugma means crossing.
A Roman house where the floor judged you.
Nine Muses, each named in Greek.
Not decoration, a social filter.
If you could not name them, you were the entertainment.
Which Muse runs your life right now, and which one are you neglecting? https://t.co/ZssvlMt0rp
A Roman house where the floor judged you.
Nine Muses, each named in Greek.
Not decoration, a social filter.
If you could not name them, you were the entertainment.
Which Muse runs your life right now, and which one are you neglecting? https://t.co/ZssvlMt0rp
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Lower World: Akhayat Sinkhole
Mersin, Türkiye: its name means Lower World.
Aşağı Dünya Obruğu is a 70 m deep sinkhole, ~100×150 m across. Rock-cut stairs drop to ruins. Manmade caves line the walls. 400 m away are altars and tombs, hinting a cult site.
Why worship the edge of a https://t.co/ax5Iyslbs6
Mersin, Türkiye: its name means Lower World.
Aşağı Dünya Obruğu is a 70 m deep sinkhole, ~100×150 m across. Rock-cut stairs drop to ruins. Manmade caves line the walls. 400 m away are altars and tombs, hinting a cult site.
Why worship the edge of a https://t.co/ax5Iyslbs6
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Feke Castle, Adana. 1,270 m above the valley, a 190 m spine of stone on the cliff, built to guard routes linking Cilicia to Anatolia. Armenians, Byzantines, later powers came and went. The rock stayed. What are you guarding: people, power, or forgetfulness? Reply with one word. https://t.co/x5Wa2ga5NL
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Beneath the sands of Luxor, archaeologists are uncovering Egypt’s “Lost Golden City,” a 3,400-year-old urban time capsule from the reign of Amenhotep III.
Wedged between ancient Thebes and Memphis, this thriving hub of homes, offices, workshops, and bakeries still holds tools, https://t.co/B8PBRyuk2N
Wedged between ancient Thebes and Memphis, this thriving hub of homes, offices, workshops, and bakeries still holds tools, https://t.co/B8PBRyuk2N
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Borealopelta: The Dinosaur That Kept Its Secrets
One bad day, 110 million years ago, became the best fossil “snapshot” we have.
Skin texture, armor, even gut contents interpreted as its last meal.
If this is what rare looks like, what’s still buried that would rewrite everything? https://t.co/UWjJn3WlDI
One bad day, 110 million years ago, became the best fossil “snapshot” we have.
Skin texture, armor, even gut contents interpreted as its last meal.
If this is what rare looks like, what’s still buried that would rewrite everything? https://t.co/UWjJn3WlDI
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Why bury a king in gold shoes?
Psusennes I went into the afterlife wearing gold sandals and toe caps, shod like the gods. To them, gold was divine flesh.
In the wet Nile Delta, everything decayed, but the gold stayed.
Immortality symbol, or a message: only the divine lasts? https://t.co/8nlj7jmwhr
Psusennes I went into the afterlife wearing gold sandals and toe caps, shod like the gods. To them, gold was divine flesh.
In the wet Nile Delta, everything decayed, but the gold stayed.
Immortality symbol, or a message: only the divine lasts? https://t.co/8nlj7jmwhr
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Six bronze dragons guard a fountain at Garibaldi Castle in Russia.
Not ancient. Built in the 2000s.
But here’s the real question:
If you found this ruin in 2526, would you swear it was medieval or admit you can’t tell anymore? https://t.co/DDpXcMCjUx
Not ancient. Built in the 2000s.
But here’s the real question:
If you found this ruin in 2526, would you swear it was medieval or admit you can’t tell anymore? https://t.co/DDpXcMCjUx
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Did you know?
The Lomekwi 3 tools prove that "technology" started 3.3M years ago—500,000 years before the first humans even evolved.
While we used to think big brains led to tools, it turns out smashing rocks actually paved the way for our evolution! Whether it was https://t.co/UIBL79Aglv
The Lomekwi 3 tools prove that "technology" started 3.3M years ago—500,000 years before the first humans even evolved.
While we used to think big brains led to tools, it turns out smashing rocks actually paved the way for our evolution! Whether it was https://t.co/UIBL79Aglv
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