Qué Historia

History, Literature and Art are the wonderful remains of the past that let us enjoy the present. Talking about them from an archaeological point of view.

[Qué Historia @QHistoria]

@JPlummerSires And he was himself given the (Egyptian) Pharaoh name of Mesuti Ra. The process went both ways!

[Qué Historia @QHistoria]

Meroë was a centennial capital of the Kingdom of Kush, famous for its two hundred pyramids and ironworking.
On the east bank of the Nile within present-day #Sudan, it's said to have been named by the Persian king Cambyses—who conquered the wider region in 525 BC— after his sister

[educahistoria @educahistoria]

🌟 ¡Bienvenidos! Sumérgete en el fascinante mundo de Leonardo da Vinci, un genio renacentista que transformó el arte y la ciencia. ¡Sigue este hilo para explorar su vida y sus obras icónicas! 🎨🔍 #LeonardoDaVinci #GenioRenacentista

[Qué Historia @QHistoria]

La sociedad del Argar floreció en la Edad del Bronze del sureste de la Península Ibérica. Un nuevo artículo nos presenta la información disponible sobre los textiles, un elemento raramente preservado en el registro arqueológico
https://t.co/sIX9lTBcRc

[LenguasClásicas IEDA @clasicasIEDA]

Teatro romano de Itálica, en el actual término municipal de Santiponce (en Sevilla), fundada en el año 206 a. C.
Buenas noches con hermosos monumentos
#ieda

[Qué Historia @QHistoria]

El castillo de #Colchester (condado de Essex, Inglaterra) es el mayor castillo normando de Europa. Data de la segunda mitad del siglo XI, una vez que los normandos entraron en las Islas Británicas tras su victoria en #Hastings (1066)

[Qué Historia @QHistoria]

¡Hace miles de años, los cazadores-recolectores Toaleanos de Sulawesi, en #Indonesia, usaban dientes de tiburón tigre como cuchillas empuñadas en contextos de conflicto y rituales!

(La segunda imagen—un ejemplo etnográfico más reciente de Papua Nueva Guinea—indica cómo se usan)

[Qué Historia @QHistoria]

¿Cómo es posible que hayan robado objectos del Museo Británico?

How Museum Items Go Missing
https://t.co/uAEsRDydC8

[Gustavo Vela @GustavoVela71]

Arqueólogos en Egipto

[Ashmolean Museum @AshmoleanMuseum]

Which medieval embroidered lion are you today?

[Ancient History Hit @AncientsHH]

The Romans did try to breed some arena animals in captivity. We hear of at least one elephant that was born in captivity south of Rome, but generally these efforts don't appear to have been very successful

Image Credit: Butko / CC.

[Paige Madison @FossilHistory]

#OnThisDay in 1887, Eugene Dubois arrived in Nusantara (now Indonesia) to work at a hospital in Padang, Sumatra. The post would fund his search for the missing link—a search that resulted in the discovery of the Java Man just a few years later. #fossils

[ⒾⓂⓅⒺⓇⒾⓊⓂ ⓂⒶⒾⓊⓈ @Jsnchezalguaci1]

#SEVERANSAMICUS

Publio Cornelio Anulino fue un senador hispanorromano que desarrolló su cursus honorum entre finales del siglo II y comienzos del siglo III bajo los reinados de Marco Aurelio, Cómodo y especialmente de Septimio Severo de quien fue su amicus.
📸HEp

[Angela O'Brien @GrecianGirly]

Here is a link to the 'Top 10 Ancient Greek Artworks' according to the Guardian. What are your favourites??

https://t.co/PYGDWUnjLv

[Durotriges Project @Durotrigesdig]

OMG ! Roman Archaelogy AND a secondhand bookshop - the perfect combination of beautiful things 🤩🤩🤩

[Open-Oxford-Cambridge DTP @OOCDTP]

Congratulations to @OOCDTP students Gonzalo Linares-Matás and James Clark, alongside Jonathan Lim, for their JAS: Rep article! They use publicly available datasets to map subsurface features potentially attractive to Pleistocene humans in the Chilterns. https://t.co/SkWIPPfZvg

[Qué Historia @QHistoria]

Un yacimiento muy interesante!

[TurkishArchaeoNews @turarchaeonews]

For #MuseumsUnlocked Megalithic Architecture - Göbekli Tepe (southeastern Turkey, Şanlıurfa Province), possibly the oldest-known religious structure in the world, dating back to the 10th millennium BCE. More than 200 pillars in ca.20 circles are known through geophysical surveys.

[Joaquín SalmerónJuan @JoaquinSalmeron]

@QuepasaenMurcia @QHistoria @CiezaEnTuMano @OcioenCieza @JoseMaGomez817 @Copecieza @OndaCieza @oferplan_lv @JbsJos @Antonio70475071

[Ashmolean Museum @AshmoleanMuseum]

In light of #YomKippur, this week's #IsolationCreations prompt is this small blue perfume flask from Jericho that dates to 1650–1550 BC. Cosmetics were valued in many ancient societies, and were often used for protection from disease, insects and even the sun 🐛☀️

[Archaeology & Art @archaeologyart]

Pan mosaic from #Pompeii- Archaeological museum of #Naples.