Past Present Future

The past explained. The present decoded. The future questioned.
Stories you won't find in textbooks.

[Past Present Future @Storylinexplore]

In 1929, a Chinese farmer digging a ditch hit something hard.

What lay beneath his field was a civilisation that:

• Built 8-foot bronze giants
• Left behind zero written records
• Vanished completely around 800 BC

No ancient text mentions them. Nobody knew they existed.🧵

[Past Present Future @Storylinexplore]

Three thousand years ago, someone cast a face in bronze with eyes stretching out of its head, smiled it into permanence, then smashed it and buried it in the ground.

We can hold the object. We can date it. We can photograph every millimetre.

We will probably never know what it was for.

[Past Present Future @Storylinexplore]

In 1929, a Chinese farmer digging a ditch hit something hard.

What lay beneath his field was a civilisation that:

• Built 8-foot bronze giants
• Left behind zero written records
• Vanished completely around 800 BC

No ancient text mentions them. Nobody knew they existed.🧵

[Past Present Future @Storylinexplore]

Sanxingdui rewrote a core assumption.

Chinese civilisation was long taught as flowing outward from one cradle: the Yellow River valley.

Sanxingdui proved that a completely independent, equally advanced Bronze Age society was flourishing 1,000 miles away at the same time — with its own gods, its own art, and its own idea of what the sacred looked like.

[Past Present Future @Storylinexplore]

He turned down immortality from a goddess.
He walked out of paradise, past monsters, through the land of the dead.
All because someone once put something small in his hand and told him to remember.

[Past Present Future @Storylinexplore]

Long press to see this legendary character 😯

[Past Present Future @Storylinexplore]

This is an incredible custom ceiling fan modified to look like a military helicopter complete with action figures, turning the spinning blades into a creative room fixture.

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Agamemnon died naked — so how did he show up in the underworld fully dressed?

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The BACKWARDS PROGRESSION OF CGI needs to be studied, this was in 2009. The CGI in this movie was so incredibly detailed and hyper- complex that the computer servers at Industrial Light & Magic literally caught fire and exploded trying to render it!.

[Chronocivilis @Chronocivilis]

The Tomb of Seti I (KV17), the burial place of Pharaoh Seti I of Egypt's 19th Dynasty, is located in the Valley of the Kings near Luxor.

Photos featuring Zahi Hawass. Rails and brickwork are visible throughout the site.

Video from 17 years ago: https://t.co/05fYwrIsnZ