Paul Bennoit

[Paul Bennoit @PaulBennoit]

@wonderofscience @grok is this video real and what is the location?

[Wolf of X @WolfofX]

Best surprises

1. After 6 years in the U.S., this bro came back to Brazil for his dad’s birthday without telling anybody

[James Lucas @JamesLucasIT]

Similarities between the human body and nature 🧵

1. Lungs and tree branches

[Culture Explorer @CultureExploreX]

This must be an incredible job!

Just imagine being the one to open the doors of the Sistine Chapel and take in all its breathtaking beauty before anyone else, first thing in the morning!

[Historic Vids @historyinmemes]

Vegetable oil makes Pyrex glass disappear because both materials bend light in the same way, with a refractive index of 1.47.

[James Lucas @JamesLucasIT]

Thread of crazy paleontological discoveries 🧵

1. Drought reveals 113-million-year-old dinosaur tracks in Texas

[James Lucas @JamesLucasIT]

Thread of surreal archeological discoveries 🧵

1. Roman mosaic found under Italian vineyard

[The Secret @thesecret]

Remember you are the star of your life.

[Yuval Noah Harari @harari_yuval]

Thanks for having me, @amanpour.

[Paul Bennoit @PaulBennoit]

@MaxxChewning A peanut

[The Culturist @the_culturist_]

Very few artists in history have mastered the art of carving translucent veils from solid stone.

These are the 10 greatest examples ever sculpted 🧵

[Historic Vids @historyinmemes]

At 9.15 am on Friday, October 21, 1966, a waste tip above the mining village of Aberfan in the valleys of Wales in the UK began to slide down the mountainside, firstly destroying a farm cottage and killing all its occupants. It then approached Pantglas Junior School, where the children had only just returned to their classes after their morning assembly.

The waste tip had been created on a mountain slope which overlaid a natural spring. Heavy rain led to a build-up of water within the tip which caused it to suddenly slide downhill as a slurry.

The slide - containing over 150,000 tonnes of slurry - then engulfed the school and about 20 houses in the village, killing 144 people, including 116 school children and 28 adults.

News of the tragedy travelled fast and hundreds of people stopped what they were doing and headed to Aberfan to try and help with the rescue. It was futile, as nobody was rescued alive after 11am and it was nearly a week before all the bodies were recovered.

Queen Elizabeth visited the town in the wake of the disaster. It remains to this day one of the few displays of public emotion from the usually stoic monarch as she broke down in tears at the sheer tragedy. https://t.co/4YRZ9RiVd1

[Gareth Harney @OptimoPrincipi]

Ganymede offers a cup to Zeus in the form of an eagle. The shepherd boy Ganymede, most beautiful of all mortals, was abducted by the eagle of Zeus and carried to Mount Olympus where he became cupbearer to the immortal gods. Zeus later placed Ganymede in the sky as the constellation Aquarius (the water carrier), which is adjacent to Aquila (the eagle). Sculpted by Bertel Thorvaldsen, 1817.

[Archaeo - Histories @archeohistories]

This is first European map of Tenochtitlan, capital of Aztec Empire, made in 1524 CE, and a mural of city made by Diego Rivera in 1945.

City, which was built on an island in what was then Lake Texcoco, left Hernán Cortes' men in awe and many of them wondered if they were dreaming.

#archaeohistories

[Archaeo - Histories @archeohistories]

A 2000 years old, Roman Lead Pipe; that supplied water to the Roman Baths in Bath, England. It is still in its original position.

#archaeohistories

[Geology Tweets @GeologyTime]

“Marston marble” is not actually a marble at all, but a conglomeration limestone of tiny, rare ammonites from the Jurassic Period, approximately 200 million years old. from Somerset, England

Photo: Rare Earth Mining Co.

[Vintage Maps @vintagemapstore]

America Meridionalis - Gerard Mercator, 1595.

[Kevin Wilbraham @KPW1453]

The 7th century crypt at Hexham Abbey in Northumberland. The crypt is the only surviving part of St. Wilfred’s original church. #SaxonSunday

[Darius Arya @DariusAryaDigs]

Fabulous wall paintings from a 2C AD domus on the site of the Baths of Caracalla are on display inside the baths! Not to miss on your next visit!

[Archaeo - Histories @archeohistories]

Sphinx carved fritware, painted in an opaque white and turquoise glaze, dated 12th Century CE.

It was found in Rafiqa, Syria in 1924. This sphinx was once a fountain figure, it has a pipe inside to carry water up to figure's head.

National Museum of Damascus

#archaeohistories