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🔴 🏴 🎥 **Rome’s African Emperor & His Campaigns in Scotland**
Bath Royal Literary and Scientific Institution
_"In the early 3rd century Severus launched an immense shock and awe assault on Scotland that was so devastating it resulted in 80 years of peace on Rome’s most troublesome border. Uncover the fascinating tale of the largest force to ever campaign on British soil."_
#Video length: one hour and four minutes.
🔗 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fxOVY0Rg0c8
#History #Histodon #Histodons #Britain #Scotland #Africa #Rome #RomanEmpire #Imperium #Empire #Imperialism #SeptimiusSeverus @histodon @histodons
🔴 **Ten Commandment tablet that was used as paving stone sells for millions**
AP Correspondent
_"The tablet dates from 300 to 800 A.D. and is inscribed with the commandments in Paleo-Hebrew script — the only complete example of its kind from antiquity, according to Sotheby's._
_Sotheby’s said the tablet was used as a paving stone at a local home until 1943 when it was sold to a scholar who grasped its significance."_
#History #Histodon #Histodons #Archaeology #Archaeodons @histodon @histodons
🔴 🇩🇪 **Mysterious amulet discovered in Germany could rewrite history**
Namita Singh
_“The most significant aspect of the discovery is its age, according to a press release issued by the Frankfurt city government. The grave where the amulet was found is dated to between 230 and 270 AD, making it the first example of “such authentic evidence of pure Christianity north of the Alps” during this period.”_
#Archaeology #Archaeodons #History #Histodon #Histodons #Germany #Europe #Christianity #Religion @archaeodons @histodon @histodons @religion
🔴 📖 **Miss M. Marshall, the mysterious bookbinder**
_“In careers articles and exhibition reviews, women binders are often referred to as ‘Miss’ plus surname. Miss M. Marshall, the binder of Library’s newly acquired copy of William Morris's Poems (1908) has proved difficult to research, but we can reveal her identity.”_
🔗 https://blogs.bl.uk/untoldlives/2024/12/miss-m-marshall-the-mysterious-bookbinder.html.
#History #Book #Books #Women #Bookbinding #Craft #Bookstodon @bookstodon
🔴 🇬🇪 **Ancient Tablet Etched With Mysterious Language Found in Georgia**
Mike McRae
_"The letters' shapes might resemble Middle Eastern symbols, while mirroring the seals of Bronze and Early Iron Age Georgia. The researchers note the signs are also reminiscent of Proto-Kartvelian script – a language that would give rise to modern dialects and
languages of the region."_
🔗 https://www.sciencealert.com/ancient-tablet-etched-with-mysterious-language-found-in-georgia.
#Ancient #History #Histodon #Histodons #Archaeology #Archaeodons #Georgia #Language @histodon @histodons
🔴 🎥 **The Life of Jochi Khan: First son of Genghis Khan**
The Jackmeister: Mongol History
🔗 (i) https://youtu.be/jvaMjlxuQNw
🔗 (ii) https://youtu.be/EkVeDsPg6lE
#Video #History #Histodon #Histodons #GenghisKhan #JochiKhan #Khan #Mongol #Empire @histodon @histodons
🔴 📖 **The New Roman Empire**
Reviewed by Peggy Kurkowski
_“ Historian Anthony Kaldellis simply awes in The New Roman Empire, a massive undertaking that captures the large, small, and quotidian events, lives, and oh-so-many intrigues of Byzantium from the age of Constantine to its fall in 1453.”_
🔗 https://www.washingtonindependentreviewofbooks.com/bookreview/the-new-roman-empire.
#NonFiction #BookReview #Book #Bookstodon #History #Histodon #Histodons #Byzantium #Empire @histodon @histodons @bookstodon
🔴 🇳🇱 **Archaeologists make unprecedented discovery of Roman soldier’s remains from ‘year 0’**
Vishwam Sankaran
_“Today, evidence was found of Roman habitation in the time of Emperor Augustus. A unique discovery that not only teaches us more about our past, but also shows how unique the story of Roman Heerlen is for the Netherlands,” Jordy Clemens, Heerlen’s council member for culture and heritage, said in a statement._
🔗 https://www.independent.co.uk/news/science/archaeology/roman-soldier-remains-year-zero-b2663810.html.
#History #Histodon #Histodons #Archaeology #Archaeodons #Netherlands #RomanEmpire #Roman #Empire #Europe @histodon @histodons @archaeodons
🔴 **Idolatry, God(s), and Demons among the Jews of Sasanian Babylonia**
_“The frequent engagement with themes relating to the supernatural and the divine in the Babylonian Talmud, when read alongside the Jewish magical evidence from Babylonia and other contemporary sources, suggests a degree of anxiety about the fact that the rabbis were grappling with the appeal of a multiplicity of deities and forces present among the inhabitants of Sasanian Babylonia and that they were actively seeking to clarify how their notions of the divine differed from those of their neighbours.”_
Herman, G. 2021. Idolatry, God(s), and Demons among the Jews of Sasanian Babylonia. In: Kiperwasser, R. and Herman, G. ed. Expressions of Sceptical Topoi in (Late) Antique Judaism. Berlin, Boston: De Gruyter, pp. 85-100. https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110671483-006.
#OpenAccess #OA #DOI #History #Babylonia #Theology #Religion @religion
🔴 🇺🇸 **The burial site of slaves owned by a former US president has finally been found**
Travis Loller
_"At least 26 enslaved people died on the Tennessee plantation of President Andrew Jackson, the seventh US president, between 1804 and the end of the Civil War in 1865._
_Nobody knew where they were buried. But on Wednesday, the Andrew Jackson Foundation announced a discovery: They believe they have found the slave cemetery at The Hermitage, the home of America's seventh president."_
#Slavery #Slaves #AndrewJackson #Nashville #Tennessee #USA #US #UnitedStates #America #History #Histodon #Histodons @histodon @histodons
🔴 🇵🇹 🇬🇧 **An Unknown History Of Portugal (c 1570) In William Cecil's Library: Commissioning And Writing History During the Elizabethan Era**
_“The manuscript is in a mid-sixteenth-century hand and has personal annotations by William Cecil (1520–98), better known as Lord Burghley. It recounts the history of Portugal by reigns and belonged to Cecil’s personal library. Until now, no other extant example of a history of Portugal written in English in the sixteenth century was known.”_
Lowe, K. and Vila-Santa, N. (2024) ‘AN UNKNOWN HISTORY OF PORTUGAL (c 1570) IN WILLIAM CECIL’S LIBRARY: COMMISSIONING AND WRITING HISTORY DURING THE ELIZABETHAN ERA’, The Antiquaries Journal, pp. 1–29. doi: https://doi.org/10.1017/S0003581524000167.
#OpenAccess #OA #Article #DOI #C16th #16thCentury #Culture #History #UK #UnitedKingdom #Portugal #Histodon #Histodons #Academia #Academics @histodon @histodons
🔴 🇺🇸 **Newly Discovered Massachusetts Silver Threepence from 1652 Brings $2.52 Million**
Stack's Bowers Galleries
_"Struck within weeks of the establishment of the first mint to be opened in the future United States, the New England threepence is the only example known outside of a museum."_
#Numismatics #Massachusetts #NewEngland #USA #US #UnitedStates #America #Coins #History
🔴 🇯🇵 🇸🇬 🎥 **Japan - Singapore - 1941. Movietone Moment**
British Movietone
_"On this day in 1941, Japan invaded Singapore. Here is a British Movietone report of the first blitz on Singapore."_
#Video length: one minute and forty-nine seconds.
🔗 https://youtu.be/RZgCMQVTNaw
#OnThisDay #OTD #History #Histodon #Histodons #Japan #Singapore #WorldWar2 #WorldWarII #WW2 #WWII @histodon @histodons
🔴 📖 **Papermaking: A Rags to Riches Story**
Posted by: Patrick Hastings
_“Beginning in the 1300s, the Italians adopted and adapted techniques first developed in China and the Middle East, and their innovations spread throughout Europe, lasting for centuries as the highest standard in paper production.”_
🔗 https://blogs.loc.gov/bibliomania/2024/12/05/papermaking-a-rags-to-riches-story/
🔴 **The Vikings lacked a long-term vision**
Dr Cristian Ispir
_"This short-term plundering mentality left the Vikings culturally impoverished, unable to build upon the ruins of what they destroyed. And ignorance added cultural insult to civilizational injury."_
🔗 https://www.biblonia.com/p/the-vikings-lacked-a-long-term-vision
🔴 🇬🇧 🇮🇳 **British Identity Within the Indian Setting in Zoffany’s Portraits**
Rose Akcan
_"Palmer and Bakhsh’s relationship was not unique in the time of East India Company representatives taking over Indian provinces. The boundaries between enslaved people and servants were contested in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries as masters struggled to differentiate between these roles."_
#History #Histodon #Histodons #EastIndiaCompany #Art #Portraits #Culture #UK #UnitedKingdom #Europe #India #Asia #Identity #Colonialism @histodon @histodons
🔴 **16th-century graffiti of Tower of London prisoners decoded for first time**
Dalya Alberge
_"Dr Jamie Ingram, who is heading a major project to study graffiti in the Tower of London, described the discoveries as “exciting”. He began studying the Salt Tower on the south-eastern corner – part of the curtain wall that Henry III built in the 1230s. Its prisoners included Hew Draper, a Bristol innkeeper accused of practising sorcery and imprisoned in 1561, who carved an astrological sphere with zodiacal signs into the wall, despite having claimed that he had destroyed all his magical books. No record exists of his fate."_
#Archaeology #Archaeodons #History #Culture #Britain @archaeodons
🔴 🇫🇷 **Fighting Calvin and Muhammad in Wall Almanacs after the Revocation of the Edict of Nantes**
_Combining visual and textual analysis, this article suggests that royal image makers linked Muslims and Protestants to defend the Revocation of the Edict of Nantes and manifest the French king's religious zeal and imperial ambition while distracting from the ahdname (capitulations) granted by the Ottoman sultan that precluded France from joining a Catholic alliance to fight the “Turkish menace.”_
Gillian Weiss; Fighting Calvin and Muhammad in Wall Almanacs after the Revocation of the Edict of Nantes. French Historical Studies 1 November 2024; 47 (4): 549–570. doi: https://doi.org/10.1215/00161071-11284379.
#Research #Article #History #Histodon #Histodons #EarlyModern #LouisXIV #Huguenots #Protestants #Muslims #Islam #France #Europe @earlymodern @histodon @histodons
🔴 📖 **A History of the Inquisition of Spain; vol. 1 by Henry Charles Lea**
_“The work meticulously explores the inception, evolution, and profound impact of the Spanish Inquisition, an institution pivotal in shaping Spain's history and, by extension, influencing the broader civilized world.”_
🔗 https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/43296
#History #Medieval #Medievodons #Religion #Christianity #Catholicism #Church #Spain #Nonfiction #Book #Books #Ebook #Ebooks #Bookstodon #ProjectGutenberg @bookstodon @medievodons
Not a bot, just a rather corpulent male fifty years of age; a very, very slow ignoramus who reads occasionally.
Toots are #humanities, #science, #nonfiction, #book, #map, #chart and #graph related. Some toots containing #videos may also find their way into the timeline.
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Expect numerous typing errors and copious amounts of nonsensical commentary from my personal formulations.
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