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[FotoTrex @fototrex]

@WriteyKnighty While researching my medieval ancestry, I discovered several fascinating connections; 3 in particular are: Brian Boru (31st Great-Grandfather) High King of Ireland, favorite pictured here is Rollo (33rd Gr GF) Duke of Normandy and Charlemagne (35th Gr GF) Holy Roman Emperor.

[FotoTrex @fototrex]

Weather Eye on the Horizon:
Good Morning from Ocean City, Maryland

[Nature is Amazing ☘️ @AMAZlNGNATURE]

Eruption on Mount Etna (Sicily) gives the illusion of a Phoenix in the sky

[Architecture & Tradition @archi_tradition]

Not all castles were made for war.

Some were statements of power. Others were fantasies in stone.

Here are 20 of Europe’s most fascinating castles...🧵

[Culture Explorer @CultureExploreX]

You walk into a Gothic cathedral thinking it’s just another old church.

But what if I told you, it was once the most advanced structures ever built?

A place where light was engineered, sound was weaponized, and stone was used to tell stories.

Let me show you. 🧵👇

[Art Beyond Subjectivity @JScotteswood]

Some doors are locked. Some open once every 25 years. Some haven’t moved in 3,000.

But every one holds a story that could shatter your sense of time, faith, or identity.

Let me take you through them. 🧵

[Culture Explorer @CultureExploreX]

Some places look so unreal, you wonder if you’ve stepped into a storybook.

Here are the towns and villages that feel like they were pulled straight from a fairytale.

You won’t believe #16 is real. 🧵

[Beyond the Cosmic Veil @ClassicalAegis]

The Pantheon isn't just an architectural masterpiece.

It's a legacy.

Let's unlock the geometrical and engineering mysteries that make this 1,900 year old structure immortal: thread 🧵

[Elon Musk @elonmusk]

Good thread

[The Cultural Tutor @culturaltutor]

Mont-Saint-Michel in France is one of the most famous places in the world.

You've seen thousands of photos of it... but what is Mont-Saint-Michel? Who built it? And when?

This is a brief history of the world's strangest village...

[Helen Angel😇 @AngelAngelopou1]

✨This is where I want to be, go where your happy & carefree, where your heart grows,enjoy it all with a smile & me ✨

[Craig Baird - Canadian History Ehx @CraigBaird]

On this day in 1975, the Edmund Fitzgerald sank beneath the waves of Lake Superior during a massive storm.
The sinking took the lives of all 29 men on the ship, and became immortalized in Gordon Lightfoot's song.
Let's learn more about this tragedy.

🧵1/20

[Epic Maps ���️ @theepicmap]

19. The size of the Roman Empire at its height compared to the United States

[Wolf of X @WolfofX]

2. Tah Prom (Jungle Temple), near Seam Reap in Cambodia

[The Culturist @the_culturist_]

German poet Heinrich Heine was once asked why men no longer build great cathedrals.

He replied: "People in those old times had convictions; we moderns only have opinions. And it needs more than a mere opinion to erect a Gothic cathedral."

[The Culturist @the_culturist_]

This iconic photo is the Avenida de Mayo, looking toward the majestic National Congress building.

How it looked in 1918...

[The Culturist @the_culturist_]

The greatest wonder of Paris isn't the Notre-Dame or the Eiffel Tower — it's this small chapel.

But it isn't just radiantly beautiful. It was built to protect something of incalculable value... (thread) 🧵

[Benjamin Williamson @photographmaine]

Currently in Portland, #Maine. I’m facing southeast! #aurora #Auroraborealis #NorthernLights

[Matthew Mallett. @1936matt]

@AP_Magazine Hamford Waters Essex last night at around 11.40pm

[Archaeo - Histories @archeohistories]

A 9000 year-old Stonehenge-like structure found under lake Michigan :

Archaeologists found something much more fascinating than they got credit for when searching under the waters of Lake Michigan for shipwrecks: they uncovered a rock with a prehistoric carving of a mastodon, as well as a collection of stones arranged in a Stonehenge-like manner. In modern archaeology, the use of remote sensing techniques is common: scientists regularly survey lakes and soil for hidden objects.

Archaeologists uncovered sunken boats and cars and even a Civil War-era pier at a depth of around 40ft into Lake Michigan’s Grand Traverse Bay, using sonar techniques to search for shipwrecks, but among all these, they found this prehistoric surprise, which a trained eye can guess by looking at the sonar scans photos in this article.

“When you see it in the water, you’re tempted to say this is absolutely real,” said Mark Holley, a professor of underwater archaeology at Northwestern Michigan University College who made the discovery, during a news conference with photos of the boulder on display in 2007. “But that’s what we need the experts to come in and verify. The boulder with markings is 3.5-4ft high and about 5 feet long. Photos show a surface with numerous fissures.

Some may be natural while others appear of human origin, but those forming what could be the petroglyph stood out, Holley said. Viewed together, they suggest the outlines of a mastodon-like back, hump, head, trunk, tusk, triangular-shaped ear and parts of legs, he said. “We couldn’t believe what we were looking at,” said Greg MacMaster, president of the underwater preserve council.

Specialists shown pictures of the boulder holding the mastodon markings have asked for more evidence before confirming the markings are an ancient petroglyph, said Holley. “They want to actually see it,” he said. Unfortunately, he added, “Experts in petroglyphs generally don’t dive, so we’re running into a little bit of a stumbling block there.”

If found to be true, the wannabe petroglyph could be as much as 10,000 years old – coincident with the post-Ice Age presence of both humans and mastodons in the upper midwest. The formation, if authenticated, wouldn’t be completely out of place. Stone circles and other petroglyph sites are located in the area.

The discovery was made back a few years ago, and surprisingly enough the find hasn’t been popularized at all, with little to no information available online, but I’ll be sure to update this post as soon as I can get ahold of more info.

© The Archaeologist

#archaeohistories