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At the time of Napoleon’s invasion of Egypt in 1798, the Great Sphinx of Giza was mostly buried under the sand. Since that campaign, the body of the Sphinx has been unearthed through many excavations.
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Wall of memories, north palace #Babylon
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#RuinoftheDay - The Fountain of Peirene in Corinth (Greece), a sacred nymphaeum said to be the site where the winged horse Pegasus landed and was tamed by Bellerophon. First, a natural grotto, the fountain was built in about 500 BC and received an extreme makeover by the Romans.
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“#RuinoftheDay - The Fountain of Peirene in Corinth (Greece), a sacred nymphaeum said to be the site where the winged horse Pegasus landed and was tamed by Bellerophon. First, a natural grotto, the fountain was built in about 500 BC and received an extreme makeover by the Romans.”
“…this indescribably sad poem…looks simple, but it isn’t.”
a translation by David Shulman from his fascinating book, Tamil: a biography
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BCE/CE always feels like straight-up euphemism, a testament to how unsecular secular culture is. I feel like an actually secular culture wouldn't care, would just keep using AD, treating the meaning of "Anno Domini" as basically a curiosity like the etymology of "Wednesday".
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“BCE/CE always feels like straight-up euphemism, a testament to how unsecular secular culture is. I feel like an actually secular culture wouldn't care, would just keep using AD, treating the meaning of "Anno Domini" as basically a curiosity like the etymology of "Wednesday".”
Please remember: history is a stable element, mined by historians in history mines. There is one established version of it but it is highly flammable and trying to "rewrite" it will lead to a meltdown of all remaining history on the planet leaving us *without* history whatsoever.
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“Please remember: history is a stable element, mined by historians in history mines. There is one established version of it but it is highly flammable and trying to "rewrite" it will lead to a meltdown of all remaining history on the planet leaving us *without* history whatsoever.”
Today, it's appropriate to appreciate Janus, the two-headed god of transitions, beginnings, endings, doorways, and duality. The month of January is named after him. One head looks back on the past, reflecting, one head looks forward to the future, hopeful. Happy new year!
stack of all the books I can remember reading in 2022. would recommend all. shoutout to @[email protected] for my favorite novel of the last few years in All Our Broken Idols
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Mycenae - The Lion Gate - Part of the 'Cyclopean' fortification - the Citadel
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