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[Historic Vids @historyinmemes]

This is what the hieroglyphs and figures inside ancient Egyptian temples looked like when their original colors were still vivid.

This is a modern reconstruction of the Temple of Dendur’s original colors, projected onto the monument with light at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City.

The Met’s experimental “Color the Temple” project digitally restored one of the temple’s carved scenes to show how richly decorated ancient Egyptian temples may have looked. Researchers studied historical records, comparable temples, and surviving ancient objects with traces of pigment before selecting shades of red, yellow, blue, green, black, and white. The colors were then carefully mapped onto the carvings without altering the stone itself.

The illuminated scene shows the Roman emperor Augustus dressed and posed as an Egyptian pharaoh, presenting offerings to Egyptian deities. Although Rome controlled Egypt when the temple was built, its rulers adopted traditional Egyptian imagery to portray themselves as legitimate pharaohs.

The Temple of Dendur was built in Nubia around the first century BCE and was dedicated primarily to the goddess Isis and the deified brothers Pedesi and Pihor. Much of its original pigment was lost after the temple’s location was repeatedly flooded during the 20th century.

Egypt later gave the temple to the United States in recognition of American assistance in saving ancient monuments threatened by the construction of the Aswan High Dam. The temple was dismantled, transported to New York, and opened to the public at the Met in 1978.

[William Marx @william_marx]

La nouvelle est passée presque totalement inaperçue dans les médias français, en raison du Mondial de foot et des incendies : l’intelligence artificielle a réussi à déchiffrer entièrement un rouleau de papyrus carbonisé d’Herculanum, aussi fragile que de la cendre de cigarette, sans le dérouler et sans même y toucher ! On y a découvert un traité philosophique sur le stoïcisme. Il a fallu des trésors d’ingéniosité et de technologie pour parvenir à ce résultat. Le rêve est donc devenu réalité : bientôt, on pourra lire en un temps record les centaines de rouleaux de cette bibliothèque calcinée par le Vésuve il y a 2000 ans, et la littérature gréco-latine s’enrichira d’autant de textes inédits, de nouvelles tragédies ou épopées peut-être. Dans cet été déprimant, voilà un vrai rayon de lumière. Vive la science !

[TaraBull @TaraBull]

Danube River levels so low in Europe they’re revealing a woolly mammoth skeleton and WWII boats sunk by Germans retreating from Russia.

[Loulou @Mydalwi]

Zac a

[Guerra en la Universidad @GuerraenlaUni]

En África hay hallazgos arqueológicos espectaculares, pero como están en África, no trascienden. Uno de los más espectaculares es este fuerte de Sudán de hace 3000 años. Os cuento en ocho tuits.->

[El Club del Arte 🎨📷📚🖼🕍🎼 @Arteymas_]

Marie Lefèvre es una iluminadora francesa que destaca por mantener vivo el arte medieval del manuscrito iluminado. Esta artista utiliza técnicas tradicionales y pigmentos metálicos para plasmar eventos históricos y filosóficos en pergaminos.

[南堤 @Hand46095320]

宇宙各个星球，切开都是什么样？长知识了，让我们了解地幔地核。

[Dr. Simon @goddek]

“SPAIN SHOULD RETURN CEUTA TO MOROCCO.”

Sure. Let’s start the clock in 711 and see who owes who:

In 711, a Berber commander named Tariq ibn Ziyad crossed from North Africa and landed in Spain. His launch point was Ceuta.

Within seven years almost the entire Iberian Peninsula was under Arab occupation, governed from Damascus. By 732 the Arab raiders were even at Tours, deep inside France.

Taking it back took 781 years: Covadonga 722. Toledo 1085. Lisbon 1147. Las Navas de Tolosa 1212. Córdoba 1236. Valencia 1238. Seville 1248.

Portugal finished in 1249 when Faro fell. The Portuguese-Spanish border has barely moved since and is one of the oldest continuous borders in Europe.

Castile and Aragon needed another 243 years. What was left was Granada, which survived from 1238 mostly by paying tribute to Castile and waiting out Christian civil wars.

Here is the part none of those “Ceuta is a Spanish colony” shills talk about:

In 1415 King João I of Portugal sailed across the strait and took Ceuta from the Marinids in a single day. One of his sons was Henry the Navigator. The Age of Discovery starts there. So Portugal was conquering African soil while European soil, less than 300 km to the northeast, was still under Muslim rule.

Boabdil, the last Nasrid Sultan of Granada, handed the keys to the Alhambra to Ferdinand II of Aragon and Isabella I of Castile on 2 January 1492, marking the end of nearly eight centuries of Muslim rule in Iberia. Later that same year, the Catholic Monarchs issued the Alhambra Decree, ordering the expulsion of Jews who refused to convert to Christianity. Coincidently, 1492 also marked the beginning of Spain’s rise as a global power, ushering in the Spanish Golden Age.

For context and scale: the First Crusade began in 1096. That is 385 years after Spain was invaded. Anyone who starts this story with the Crusades is starting in the middle.

Also, Spain never conquered Ceuta. In 1580 the Portuguese royal line died out and Philip II inherited the throne. When Portugal broke away again in 1640, Ceuta chose Madrid. Portugal formally ceded it in the Treaty of Lisbon in 1668.

TL;DR:

– Ceuta has been in Iberian hands since 1415. 611 years, uninterrupted.
– Spanish since 1640, by treaty since 1668. 386 and 358 years.
– Morocco independent in its current form since 1956. 70 years.

Ceuta was Roman, then Byzantine, then fought over by Visigoths, then taken by Arab armies around 710. It has never been part of an independent Morocco.

NOT ONE SINGLE DAY.

Before anyone calls Ceuta a colony, explain what was founded in Andalusia in 711. Go ahead. I’m waiting.

[Massimo @Rainmaker1973]

When you think you're drinking from a can, you're not drinking from a can.

You're drinking from a plastic bag that's inside of a can.

[Gloria Alfa y Omega @GlodeJo07]

Había estado evitando hablar del caso del maestro Alberto Israel Jasso Cruz, quien, después de haber sido acusado de abuso sexual por una alumna, decidió quitarse la vida.

Voy a hablar como docente, como mujer y como una persona que está HARTA de que sigan ocurriendo este tipo de casos.

El maestro Alberto Jasso era profesor de preparatoria. Según los cientos de alumnos y exalumnos que salieron a lamentar su muerte, a llevarle flores y a defender su nombre, era un hombre con vocación (porque todos sabemos que ser docente NO es una profesión bien pagada en México), comprometido con sus estudiantes y que, además, apoyaba sin que fuera su obligación, a quienes, por una u otra razón, se habían rezagado o estaban en riesgo de reprobar la materia.

Y ese fue su “grave error”, tratar de ayudar a quien NO MERECÍA ayuda…

[La Catrina Norteña @catrina_nortena]

#ULTIMAHORA
🚨 SE LE ACABÓ LA FIESTA a Trump y al Club de Epstein

El Congreso, con la ayuda de 4 republicanos, acaba de aprobar una resolución con una votación de 214 votos a favor y 208 en contra para que Trump no pueda ordenar una acción militar sin la aprobación del Congreso...

[Thought Catalog @ThoughtCatalog]

Spain's World Cup hero Ferran Torres and teammate Marcos Llorente hit the beach in Ibiza to celebrate their final win.

[Alber @albernap]

José Manuel López hablando sobre por qué fue el único jugador de Argentina en ver a España levantar la Copa del Mundo:
"Aunque me expulsen de la selección, no tengo ningún arrepentimiento por girarme para ver a España levantar la Copa del Mundo"
"Cuando fuimos a recibir nuestras medallas, el equipo español se alineó para aplaudirnos"
"Incluso mi capitán Lionel Messi también dio la espalda, en ese momento todo lo que creíamos se derrumbó"
"Si yo diera la espalda, no merecería ser llamado futbolista"

[Marc Cucurella @cucurella3]

Aquí os dejo otra foto 😍