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This is badass: Medieval Nubian Fashion Brought to Life. Click through to the link because there’s more replica clothing and it is all stunning!

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Glass cameo cup fragment, Greek and Roman Art

Gift of Henry G. Marquand, 1881 Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY Medium: Glass

http://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/245495

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Who Wants to Help Me Debunk Ancient Apocalypse?

So my father is into Ancient Apocalypse, a new "documentary" series on Netflix hosted by Graham Hancock with occasional assistance from Keanu Reeves.

I'm visiting my parents and my dad wanted to watch it with me so I said sure, I love a documentary about ancient civilizations.

We started in season 2, episode 3, because that's where my dad was in the series. Coming in out of context and with no idea who Graham Norton was, my thought process over the first fifteen minutes or so went roughly like this:

Why is this one British guy telling us what the REAL story is behind all of the world's civilizations

Why is he dunking on archaeologists all the time

Why does he always suggest the same solution to every mystery

Is this just "aliens built the pyramids" with better production values

Is there any form of "aliens built the pyramids" that is not racist at its core

OK this is setting off a lot of my crackpot alarms

You know, I didn't want to begrudge my dad his new favorite show but when he started hyping it to my aunt and uncle tonight I just couldn't help it. I pulled out my phone and googled "Ancient Apocalypse" and "Netflix" and within about 10 minutes learned the following:

Graham Hancock (the showrunner and narrator) has no background in archaeology, he's a former journalist

Graham Hancock has without irony written a book in which he argues that an ancient civilization left pictographs and pyramids on Mars

Graham Hancock is a regular on Joe Rogan's podcast

There's a Guardian article out there titled "Ancient Apocalypse is the Most Dangerous Show on Television"

From this article I learned that Graham Hancock's son is a big muckety muck on the documentary/reality TV side of Netflix

This information failed to really shake my father's faith that there might be something to Hancock's theory (which roughly is that a super-advanced human civilization was destroyed by comets 12,000 years ago but there were some survivors and basically all major wonders of civilization since then were the result of those survivors visiting later cultures) because "the guy certianly has some facts."

A short conversation about people lying with documentaries later, i did finally get him to see that the reason Graham Hancock's facts are persuasive to him is that he does not have any other facts about this particular area of human history to set against them. Neither do I, as this is very much not my area.

But. Someone out there on tumblr must already have knowledge of a comprehensive Ancient Apocalypse takedown to which I could direct him. Anyone who'd like to help me wean Dad Adder off this production, I will appreciate it!

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I was rambling on the issue of museums and human remains and how certain populations are more likely to have their bodies put on display to be gawked at and then went "well I guess the Pompeii casts were of Europeans. there are bones in there right?" and Googled it to make sure, at which point I confirmed that yes there are bones in there, but more interestingly DNA testing revealed that a cast of an adult holding a child everyone assumed was a mother and child were, in fact, a man and a kid entirely unrelated to him. Honestly that's more moving to me. Maybe they were connected in a way other than blood, but maybe a stranger saw a child when the world was ending and thought the one thing he could do was hold them.

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strangely common misconception that words have basically the same meanings in every langauge and that translation is just a matter of identifying which exact word in the target language corresponds to the word in the original language

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Joe Kavik, Inuit artist, Bird, ND

Stone

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Marsh at Dusk - Jeremy Miranda , 2024.

American , b. 1980 -

Acrylic on board , 19 x 12 in.

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Vilhelm Hammershøi - Open Doors (1905)

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hi did you know that ancient mesopotamians buried their dead under the floors of their own houses to always be close to them? i can't write a poem about this but by god i will write a master's thesis

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I know this happens and it looks suspicious but

this image? we have every reason to think it is a cucumber, like it was made in clay models in burials period, it's painted green, it's on the small side of things (9.6 cm or 3 3/4 inch)

oh right and it was placed on a model offering table with small model bread and drinking cup

sometimes a cucumber really is a cucumber.

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do u ever get emotional about the fact that tchaikovsky, a gay man, wrote his Romeo and Juliet overture for his brother and his brother’s gay lover bc I sure as hell do

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You ever think about how unified humanity is by just everyday experiences? Tudor peasants had hangnails, nobles in the Qin dynasty had favorite foods, workers in the 1700s liked seeing flowers growing in pavement cracks, a cook in medieval Iran teared up cutting onions, a mom in 1300 told her son not to get grass stains on his clothes, some girl in the past loved staying up late to see the sun rise.

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Mesopotamian girl sending clay tablets to her best friend who lives five city states to the west: what if..... Enkidu begot Gilgamesh with child?🤭

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NOOOO LITTLE SCULPTED HELLENISTIC DOG DONT EAT THOSE GRAPES

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some pdfs are dusty. this is a fact despite their lack of physicality. you understand

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I lied. Put your clothes back on. I'm going to tell you of the man of twists and turns. driven time and again off course, once he had plundered the hallowed heights of Troy

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Xu Zhen - Hello