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@BrightInsight6 @historyinmemes @CommunityNotes Oh this video is trash, but….what has the Ozymandias Colossus got to do with the pyramids of Giza?

Also, the heaviest blocks in the Great Pyramid are the 80 ton granite blocks above the King’s Chamber.

But then, you know all this. You’re just habitually disingenuous.

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@thehistoryguy It’s not in Vienna but the Styrian Armoury in Graz (1 hour train trip) is one of my all time favourite museums. An imperial store of arms and armour still in the original building. The train trip through the foothills of the alps itself is also worth doing.

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@HistorianDiary @Medievalists @tsmullaney It’s ongoing, but @Boilerplate1893’s Aztec Empire is bloody good. The man himself is a stickler for historical accuracy so it’s probably as accurate as you’re likely to get for a historical graphic novel.

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Boudica end/ #History

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Boudica /1

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Boudica /2
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“He cost me much, but I wish he had lived to cost me more.”

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It is very easy to fall into the trap of thinking that people from history did not feel as we now do, that life was harder and more ruthless and so there was no room for the emotions that actually make us human. This is not helped, of course…(1)

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Another example (and one I have posted before) comes from King Henry II of England regarding his late son Henry, who was in open revolt against his father at the time of his death:

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@HistoryHitRome While this is true, Tacitus’ father-in-law Agricola was serving on the staff of governor Suetonius Paulinus. Given Tacitus’ dedicated an entire project to recounting the exploits of Agricola, it is almost certain that they spoke about it.

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@_nimbus1 @archeohistories Why would I delete my comment? I was and still am right.

Your original tweet *is* a textbook example of a superiority complex. Which is ironic because you accused the original writer of having one.

The fact that you only later provided an example doesn’t change that.

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@_nimbus1 @archeohistories What you just said is practically a textbook example of a superiority complex. “I can’t give you any specific examples at all, but if you’re comparing the age of something then just assume that the oldest one is from India. You’re stupid for even trying to make a comparison.”

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@PeterRussell14 @archeohistories That would be the Pyramid of Cestius. If I recall correctly, it was built in the years after the incorporation of Egypt into the empire, when Egyptian styles were all the rage in Rome

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@Samya77011344 @QuilterRio @Doubledecacorn @Hillsboro4671 @archeohistories Running smoothly for 6,000 years? I’m pretty sure the history of the subcontinent is just as filled with war and conflict as anywhere else

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@byzantiumcast An interesting thought, especially since in my mind, the kind of bond that Nike had with his men was the kind that across history has not been easily severed.

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@byzantiumcast I’ve been listening to the episode on the assassination of Nikephoros Phokas. The thing that struck me was just how indifferent the army was to his death.

The man who had given them everything was butchered in a chapel and they just shrugged their shoulders

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@byzantiumcast As I was listening, I almost started to get angry, thinking stuff like “Where is your [soldiers] loyalty?”

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@byzantiumcast This is true. I guess in my naivety I thought there would be some outward sign or acknowledgment of his loss. Like, did they mourn? Or had the events of the few years of his reign outweighed the glory of the years before.