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📣 New Podcast! "Impossible Origins: 10 Ancient Artifacts Found in Wrong Places & Global Connectivity" on @Spreaker #ancientartifacts #ancienthistory #ancientmysteries #ancienttrade #archaeologicaldiscoveries #archaeology #archaeologylovers #educational #globalhistory #hiddenhistory #history

"Amateurs talk strategy. Professionals talk Logistics." - General Omar Bradley
"An army marches on its stomach." - Napoleon Bonaparte
"The greatest army will starve in days." - Emperor Vespasian
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#romanempire #ancientrome #AncientHistory #RomanLegion

Nearly 2,000 years ago, Hero of Alexandria described a coin-operated machine for dispensing holy water.

Drop in a coin, its weight opened a valve. When the coin fell, the valve closed.

Ancient engineering — described in Hero's *Pneumatica*.

#AncientHistory #Engineering #History

A fourth-century piece of Homer’s ‘Odyssey’ has turned up in a Dutch university collection, preserving the moment Odysseus’ crew makes one very costly mistake. #Odyssey #Homer #Archaeology #AncientHistory #ChristopherNolan community.designtaxi.com/topic/38498-...

The discovery started a theory defending that in Ancient Egypt some type of electricity was already used.
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#aliens #ancientaliens #ancientastronauts #ancienthistory #UFOs #ufosightings #UAPs #Ufology #ufolovers #extraterrestrials #mysteries

Two hunter-gatherers from Sulawesi wore grooves into their teeth by sucking on betel nuts, one of them as early as 16,000–25,000 years ago. That could make it the oldest known evidence of habitual psychoactive plant drug use. #Archaeology #AncientHistory

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How goods and people in motion across the ancient world were entangled through consumption.

Sea of Treasures by @caeliambulator.bsky.social is now available worldwide!

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#AncientWorld #AncientHistory #History

Rome’s most underrated emperor ruled for 23 years without any major wars or scandals.

#History #AncientHistory #Rome #RomanHistory #Emperor #AntoninusPius

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A 60,000 year old Neanderthal molar from Siberia may be the earliest known evidence of dental drilling, done to relieve an infected tooth roughly 40,000 years before modern humans tried it.

📸 - Zubova et al., 2026, @plos.org

#TheLolgic #Neanderthals #Archaeology #Paleolithic #AncientHistory

Every story has two sides. After 2000 years, isn't it time we heard his?

SON OF ROME: mybook.to/0HMl
SECOND IN COMMAND: mybook.to/FQ9CeKf
SOLDIER OF FATE: mybook.to/5bIc

#BookSky #History #HistoricalFiction #HistFic #Rome #RomanHistory #RomanWorld #AncientRome #AncientHistory

Trajan's First Dacian War, by Peter Dennis.
This appears to be an attack on a Roman supply convoy, which King Decebalus knew was his best chance. While thisultimately failed, it compelled Trajan to divert thousands of soldiers to guard his supply lines.
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#romanempire #ancienthistory

The #Gospels Don’t Look Like #AncientHistory — Here’s Why

Dr. Richard Miller examines how ancient historians distinguished ordinary #history, fictionalized accounts, and #myth.

#theGospels #Herodotus #Josephus #Thucydides #historiography #Christianity #mythology
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Organized by the HIEROTOPOI project (OeAI). Funded by @fwf.ac.at [10.55776/PAT2141125].
#Archaeology #AncientHistory #Classics

Loving all things Homer? Don't miss the first AIA Archaeology Hour lecture of the fall season: Dr. Eric Cline (GWU) on "Homer, Hollywood, and Historical Context."

Wed, Sept 23, 8:00 p.m. ET, via Zoom. Free registration: buff.ly/c6BZFcM
#Archaeology #AncientHistory #AIAOttawa #ottawa #odyssey