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🦅  Alabaster bas-relief showing a vulture attacking a dead enemy soldier, who was killed by the Assyrian army. Neo-Assyrian Period, 865-860 BCE. Nimrud, modern-day Iraq. 

📷 Photo ©️ by Osama S.M. Amin. 

#NeoAssyrian #Mesopotamia #Iraq #History #AncientHistory #Nimrud

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➡️ Read more about the Siege of Antioch (1097-98) here: https://t.co/9IxdRaLLpm

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⚔️ On this day in 1097: First Crusade: Crusaders led by Godfrey of Bouillon, Bohemund of Taranto, and Raymond IV, Count of Toulouse, begin the Siege of Antioch.

📝 Article by Mark Cartwright. 

#Crusades #History #SiegeOfAntioch #OnThisDay #MilitaryHistory #Antioch

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The ideal of Christendom in antiquity joined separate nations into one single community carrying out the precepts of the God of Israel. https://t.co/Ps6JwMJ2T7  #history https://t.co/rvA2Y1eeHp

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🍽️ Banquet scene in a fresco from Herculaneum, Italy. Made c. 50 BCE, during the Late Roman Republic. Le Musée absolu, Phaidon. 59 (23 in) x 53 cm (20).

📷 Photo by Yann Forget. 

#Fresco #Roman #Herculaneum #History #Banquet

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Listen to Noah's favourite episode: 'How France Conquered the Wine World (and the Man Executed for Bad Wine') here: https://t.co/s92jLlUoG0

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🎧 Our friend Noah Tetzner from 'The History of Vikings' podcast has a new podcast out called 'The Vintage Passport', which focuses on the fascinating history and culture surrounding wine. 

#Wine #History #HistoryOfWine #Podcast #HistoryPodcast #Educational

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➡️ Read more about Isabella I of Castile here: https://t.co/bHT7NthtOS

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💒 On this day in 1469: Ferdinand II of Aragon marries Isabella I of Castile, a marriage that paves the way to the unification of Aragon and Castile into a single country, Spain.

#IsabellaIOfCastile #FerdinandIIOfAragon #Spain #Royalty #History #SpanishHistory #OnThisDay

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➡️ Read more about the Battle of Zama here: https://t.co/SAf8mg82x6

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⚔️ On this day in 202 BCE: Second Punic War: At the Battle of Zama, Roman legions under Scipio Africanus defeat Hannibal Barca, leader of the army defending Carthage.

📝 Article by Joshua J. Mark.
🖼️ Painting by Cornelius Cort.

#Hannibal #Rome #Carthage #History #AncientHistory

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📝 '#Villain' didn't always have the insulting meaning it has today.

Find more real word etymologies at https://t.co/x959RuOdyN

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The ideal of Christendom is a historical and political vision where society and government are unified under the Christian faith. https://t.co/mTWoyPbw7z  #history https://t.co/CjhliR5DA0

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💤 German pharmacist Friedrich Sertürner (1783-1841) named morphine after Morpheus, the Greek god of sleep and dreams. 

#History #HistoryTidbit #Mythology #GreekMythology #Morpheus #Morphine #HistoricalFacts #WorldHistoryEncyclopedia

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🖼️ Cartoon courtesy of Scott Hilburn. 

#HistoryHumour

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🗺️ The Black Death was the catastrophic first great wave of the Second Plague Pandemic, caused by the bacterium Yersinia pestis. Ancient DNA links its pandemic lineage to an outbreak near Lake Issyk-Kul in Central Asia in 1338–39.

🗺️ Map created by Simeon Netchev. 

#History

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📝 Did you know that the word '#weird' had very different meaning in Old #English? 

Learn more about real word #etymologies at https://t.co/x959RuOdyN

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🍗 A painting of a 16th-century CE kitchen by Joachim Beuckelaer, c. 1560-1565 CE. (Mauritshuis, The Hague, Netherlands).

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🥐🍕 Happy World Food Day! 🍣🍫

🥧 A still-life painting by Clara Peeters showing typical dishes of 16-17th century CE Northern Europe. Olives and oranges would have been luxury items in northern Europe at that time. Painted c. 1611 CE. (Museo del Prado, Madrid).

#Food #History

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🍑 A detail of a wall fresco showing peaches and a water jug, Herculaneum. From the House of the Stags, c. 50 CE. (National Archaeological Museum, Naples). Photo by Carole Raddato.