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A history podcast by @PaulMMCooper.com looking at a different collapsed society each episode.
@fallofcivilizations.com Pinned🏝️🌋 Episode 21 is now live! 🌋🏝️
This time we look at the Majapahit Empire on the island of Java. With traditional music, shadow puppet performances, and readings in Old Javanese, find out how the empire of the islands fell.
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@fallofcivilizations.comGlad you enjoyed!
@killgrove.bsky.socialReposted by @fallofcivilizations.comA new documentary on the archaeology of Great Zimbabwe airs tonight on PBS. I interviewed the lead archaeologist, Shadreck Chirikure, and if you click through, you can watch an exclusive clip showing the team's discovery of Longquan celadon from eastern China. 🧪🏺
@adapalmer.bsky.socialReposted by @fallofcivilizations.comWow! Texts are super rare for the Hittites, basically there’s just one archive and it’s 95% lists of prayer sacrifices to mountain gods, so this is really, really exciting!
@artinsociety.bsky.socialReposted by @fallofcivilizations.comWorld Heritage rock carvings in Mongolian Altai region trace changes in human life and climate over a period of 12,000 years. Here, some exceptionally dynamic images of warrior, hunters and animals
whc.unesco.org/en/list/1382/
@stonefishweirs.bsky.socialReposted by @fallofcivilizations.comRecent receding water levels in 2022 have also revealed submerged settlements adding even morr aquatic aspect to the archaeology of Mesopotamia and modern day Iraq. Such as the possable Mittani Empire-era metropolis remnants of Zakhiku at Mosul reservoir.
@cmaphotography.bsky.socialReposted by @fallofcivilizations.comThe Colossi of Memnon, Thebes https://clevelandart.org/art/1992.306
@followinghadrian.bsky.socialReposted by @fallofcivilizations.com#AmphitheatreSaturday – The El Djem amphitheatre (ancient Thysdrus) in Tunisia, built in the 3rd century AD, is one of the largest Roman amphitheatres, seating up to 35,000 spectators. Its three tiers of arcades and underground passages for animals and gladiators showcase impressive engineering.
@rabihalameddine.bsky.socialReposted by @fallofcivilizations.comAztec Calendar, Mexico City, mounted in the side wall of the Cathedral of Mexico City Unidentified Photographer, ca. 1839 daguerreotype
@johnnythin.bsky.socialReposted by @fallofcivilizations.comFor #TombTuesday here's the Roman gravestone of a 12-year-old boy named Septentrionis ('northerner'), presumably a slave, who had danced well for two days in the theatre at Antibes (biduo saltavit et placuit). The original is in the local museum and there's a reproduction on a wall in the town.
@jessstilllife.bsky.socialReposted by @fallofcivilizations.comI guilt tripped my daughter across 3,500 miles to 📸 this so I’d better post it! Afrasiyab, the ancient original site of Samarkand, occupied from 600 BCE until the Mongol invasion
#HillfortsWednesday
@fallofcivilizations.comThank you!
@herfst.bsky.socialReposted by @fallofcivilizations.comChameleon, from the Greek χαμαί ‘on the earth’ and λέων ‘lion’, was calqued from Akkadian nēš(u ša) qaqqari lit. ‘lion of the ground’, a figure attested in the Epic of Gilgamesh (line 314 ᴜʀ.ᴍᴀʜ šá qaq‐qa‐ri). The term is paralleled in lexical tablets from Ebla (ca. 2300 BCE) as na‐iš qar‐qá‐rí‐m.
@fallofcivilizations.comThank you, really glad you thought so!
@hensten.bsky.socialReposted by @fallofcivilizations.comListen to me and others far more talented in this ep! My parents told me afterwards that I had visited the Raffles hotel in Singapore as a child, so clearly it was meant to be
@fallofcivilizations.com🔥🔥🔥
@fallofcivilizations.comThe video for Episode 21 is now available for everyone!
@johnflournoy.scienceReposted by @fallofcivilizations.comI've been listening to a lot of @fallofcivilizations.com and it's so so good. Went looking for a map overlay of the Aztec empire on modern Mexico and was surprised and delighted to find this AMAZING 3d reconstruction of Tenochtitlan tenochtitlan.thomaskole.nl
@fallofcivilizations.comYes Thomas did an incredible job here! Apparently he built this after listening to Fall of Civs haha. When my book came out of course I used one of his images in the colour plates in the middle insert...
@jenniferraff.bsky.socialReposted by @fallofcivilizations.comOh hey I have a new paper out with my amazing co-authors 😃
@killgrove.bsky.socialReposted by @fallofcivilizations.comThe newly discovered cuneiform tablet fragment contains text from a section of the Treaty of Kadesh related to the treatment of Hittite and Egyptian refugees in the Bronze Age (circa 1269 BC). 🧪🏺
