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[Juanita Broaddrick @atensnut]

EPIC VIDEO!!

“No bomb can reach us because Allah protects us.”

Moments later!!

[The Hidden Face of Istanbul @thehiddenfaceof]

Lesser-known Istanbul

1: Hippodrome seat in the courtyard of the Blue Mosque

2: Silivrikapı Hypogeum

3: A marble slab with tetragrammic cross from Yoros Castle

4: Tower from the Walls of Galata

[Emma @EmWoodWood]

J'ai trouvé "La liste de Schindler" hyper dur avec les Nazis, ça ne respecte pas du tout leurs doutes et leurs hésitations, vraiment si c'est pour les présenter comme des méchants non merci. ☹️

[Ulefab @ulefab_BZH]

@Taleiisin @RomeInTheEast Ahaha I’m not like you uh. You have a big mouth but you don’t know either history or culture, things are not black and white but you should develop your arguments then!

[Imperator Cat @CatImperator]

Ok, this came out of nowhere.

In a rare move, the Greek government renovated the Palace of the Despots at the fortress city of Mystras.

The place where Constantine XI Dragas Palaiologos ruled before becoming the last Roman emperor.

While there are undoubtedly issues with the reconstruction (especially as we don't have original plans), this is a step in a right way in promoting Byzantine heritage.

[Homer Pavlos @HomerPavlos]

One of the greatest cultural crimes in Greek history happened in Sparta. In the 1730s, the French scholar Michel Fourmont was sent by the French crown to Greece. His mission was to copy ancient inscriptions and document classical antiquities. What he left behind in Sparta was one of the most shameful acts in the history of archaeology and a crime against the Greek culture and history.

Fourmont fabricated more than 1,200 inscriptions, many of them obvious forgeries that mixed impossible names, anachronistic formulas, and linguistic errors. To create the appearance of authenticity, he ordered the destruction of ancient Spartan structures and artifacts.

Marble blocks covered with authentic inscriptions were deliberately shattered. Priceless originals were smashed so that his fakes could take their place in scholarly collections.

Sparta, already reduced to ruins after centuries of neglect, still retained rare physical traces of its legendary past. Entire categories of authentic Spartan texts, possibly unique in the Greek world, vanished forever.

For decades, his fabricated inscriptions were cited as serious evidence. Scholars built theories on lies. It took until the 20th century, particularly through the rigorous work of epigraphists like Louis Robert, for the full scale of the fraud to be exposed. By then the damage was irreversible.

Today, Michel Fourmont is remembered as a man who came to study Sparta, my homeland, and instead silenced it. His actions represent one of the greatest cultural crimes in Greek history. The deliberate erasure of a civilization’s material memory, dressed up as scholarship.

In a letter to Count Maurepas, Fourmont boasts that he destroyed the inscriptions so that they would not be copied by a future traveler:

"For over 30 days now - 30, 40, even 60 workers - have been dismantling, destroying, erasing the city of Sparta. I have only 4 single towers left to demolish… For the moment, I am occupied with the destruction of Sparta’s last antiquities. You understand what joy I feel. But Mantinea, Stymphalia, Tegea, and especially Nemea and Olympia deserve to be thoroughly uprooted. I’ve made many expeditions in search of the ancient cities of this land, and I’ve destroyed several. Among them Troezen, Hermione, Tiryns, half the acropolis of Argos, Phliasia, Pheneos… I have entered Mani. For six weeks now, I’ve been occupied with the total destruction of Sparta. By tearing down its walls, its temples, leaving not a stone upon a stone, I will make even its location unknown in the future, so that I can be the one to make it known again. That way, I will glorify my journey. Is that not something? Sparta is the fifth city I have destroyed. I am now occupied with the destruction of the deepest foundations of the temple of Amyklaean Apollo. I would have destroyed other ancient sites just as easily, if only I had been allowed to. I completely demolished the tower. Of the travelers who came before me, I don't recall a single one daring to demolish towers and other large buildings!"

According to the information he himself provides, in Sparta alone he paid for 1.200 daily wages to demolish the monuments and buildings that still survived.

Fourmont was then planning to move on to Olympia, a visit he had actually scheduled. But fortunately, he was recalled to France and left Greece.

The barbarity and the damage caused by the Frenchman were irreparable.

As a Greek from Laconia, I wish that this inhumane barbarian, may never rest in peace.

[Ulefab @ulefab_BZH]

@egotis10 @CatImperator Secular places are not! In Mystra alone loads of houses could be restored as well as the city walls. etc… and it’s the same all over Greece

[Toad vous épie 🔳 ☢️💸 @ToadVousEpie]

On se repasse cette masterclass d'hypocrisie de Manon Aubry sur l'abattage rituel.

- Corrida : OUI A L'INTERDICTION✊
- Abattage rituel : Euh alors vous savez c'est un petit peu plus compliqué que ça, il faut respecter les croyances de chacun.e.s

[Ulefab @ulefab_BZH]

@_Totally_Kyle_ @archi_tradition It depends if we talk about France heavy restored places in the 20th century and now are only done with the right stones, roofs, etc… in Carcassone you have rooftops never seen in this area and lost sections were very freely reconstructed

[Ulefab @ulefab_BZH]

@mohayusba @CasseCool Cou you develop on that?

[Ulefab @ulefab_BZH]

@_Totally_Kyle_ @archi_tradition Well its kind of true since it has been VERY heavily restored in the 19th century…

[Ulefab @ulefab_BZH]

@Taleiisin @RomeInTheEast That’s really helpful for sure! It’s untrue and just add to the division your idiot

[Ulefab @ulefab_BZH]

@papapeos @RomeInTheEast There was no fake or buried walls in Constantinopl : what you see is what you get. There’s Greek inscriptions and crosses all around only some parts have been restored but still it’s close to what it was at the time of their glory

[ShadowsOfConstantinople @RomeInTheEast]

The Column of Justinian (left) and the Column of Leo (right), two monumental columns in Constantinople that did not survive to modern times.

[The Byzantine Legacy @ByzantineLegacy]

Holy spring (hagiasma) of the Monastery of Zoodochos Pege, the Life-Giving Spring dedicated to the Virgin Mary. Also known as Balıklı Kilisesi, it is located outside the Theodosian Walls, near the Pege Gate (Silivrikapı).

Today is the Orthodox feast day of Zoodochos Pege.

[Byzantium1200 @Byzantium1200]

Statues of Augustaion, new animation coming soon.

[Más Ciencia @MsCiencia2]

La llave de la Iglesia del Santo Sepulcro en Jerusalén, desde 1187 la guarda la familia musulmana Joudeh. Porque dos familias cristianas se peleaban por abrir la iglesia, así que un musulmán neutral la guarda desde hace 837 años.

[L'Écho Chrétien @lechochretien]

🇻🇦🇩🇿 𝗙𝗟𝗔𝗦𝗛 — « Chers frères et sœurs d’Algérie, que la paix soit avec vous tous. Assalamu alaykum ! […] C’est un frère qui se présente devant vous », a déclaré le pape Léon XIV dans son premier discours adressé aux Algériens.

[Ulefab @ulefab_BZH]

@surpnm Non mais un couple qui n’est pas en accord sur la sexualité et qui n’en prend pas compte ou crois vivre sans ne dureras pas ou alors avec de la tromperie

[Garen Shnorhokian @GarenShn]

Mélenchon en roue libre dans la haine des blancs ce soir :
«Il a bien fallu un jour qu'un ou une se mette debout sur ses pattes, à l'autre bout du continent africain, pour qu'à la fin, ici, vous soyez en train de faire les malins, tout blanc, tout moche que vous êtes.»