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The Columbian exchange: Today we thank Columbus for bringing chocolate to the rest of the world :D

is this true?

lady covered in dust from wtc collapse https://www.voanews.com/a/dust-covered-woman-in-iconic-september-11-photo-dies-of-stomach-cancer/2932782.html

In parts of the Congo Basin, children were treated as a delicacy, and enslaved children were deliberately fattened before being used as food. https://skipboring.com/child-cannibalism-congo-history/

Gregory of Nyssa (c.335 – c. 394). An Orthodox Christian Saint Who Was The First Person In Recorded History To Have Written Against All forms Of Slavery, Declaring The Institution Inherently Sinful. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gregory_of_Nyssa

How the Germanic word for soap reached Aboriginal Australia

(((Google Translate))) doesn't support Aramaic. Because of course it doesn't.

There is no way one could remain a Protestant after reading this.

This will never not be funny

Traffic jam in Chicago, 1927

last known ancient Egyptian Hieroglyphic inscription was made on August 24th, 394 CE https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Graffito_of_Esmet-Akhom

This mirror portrait was taken 110 years ago in Japan.

The Evolution of Ancient Greek Statues

1992 Olympic torch lighting

Marie Curie, the only woman in this iconic 1927 Solvay Conference photo, and the only person to win Nobel Prizes in two different scientific fields

Oppenheimer teaching at Kyoto University, Japan, 1960

Nearly intact 2,000-year-old mosaics from a Roman villa have been discovered beneath a vineyard in Negrar, Italy in 2020.

Erling Haaland Bought the Only Existing Copy of One of Norway's Oldest History Books for $134,000. Then Donated It to His Hometown Library So Everyone Could Read It for Free https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/articles/c1j70ee87n3o

Sunderland v Aston Villa 1895

How "Algeria", "Madagascar" and "Malaysia" are etymologically connected

Fascist Italy had triple-decker buses: the Lancia Autoalveare model

When Japan redesigned its flag in '99 and nobody knew why

The First "How-To" Video? How to Wear a Monocle (1930): Fox Movietone News produced this remarkable short film in 1930, with Count Etienne Louis Philippe Ścibor-Rylski explaining the proper way to wear a monocle. Footage restored, enhanced, and colorized: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NBxByrz5BRE

Rhodesia: They’ll never admit they made a mistake. They hate white people so much.

Schrodinger's Pagan: Which one is it >"Christianity is weak" or >"Christianity used force to convert and that's not fair" Also which is it: >"Christianity is deeply paganized and Christian in name only" or >"Christianity is a purely anti pagan devoted to the destruction of paganism." ???

A unique Tartessian bronze cart is found in Guareña. The discovery at the Casas del Turuñuelo site reveals a piece without known parallels in any civilization of the era. >https://www.cope.es/emisoras/extremadura/noticias/hallan-guarena-carro-bronce-tartesico-unico-mundo-20260624_3390816.html

neopagans can't stop losing: Fun fact: there are waaaay more runestones made after the Baptism of Scandinavia than before. The conversion to Christianity basically triggered a huge runestone boom. >b-but muh ancestors! Your ancestors converted to Christianity.

The Spice Worth More Than A Human Life

This 9000-year-old stone mask is the oldest mask in the world, and was found in the Judean Desert

Early meme from 1921

For your folkloric needs: https://www.folkloredatabase.com/

A papyrus that documents a bullying incident in the classroom. A group of bullies, led by Alexandros, surrounded a boy named Symphronios. They twisted his thumbs so violently that his bones dislocated. 9th–11th century CE.

Lady getting freckle removal CO2 in the 1930s.

Clacton Spear: The Clacton Spear, or Clacton Spear Point, is the tip of a wooden spear discovered in Clacton-on-Sea in 1911. At approximately 400,000 years old, it is the oldest known worked wooden weapon. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clacton_Spear

In the Roman Empire, Egypt had the highest average yearly income after only Italy

The sister of philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche, Elisabeth Förster-Nietzsche, founded a German colony in Paraguay called Nueva Germania (New Germany) with his husband Bernhard. Initially it was a failure, Bernhard killed himself and Elisabeth returned to Europe, but the town survived and today it pro…

9 Kings in one photo, taken in 1910. Just four years later, they would be on opposite sides of the deadliest war in history.

Aryan invasion of northern India, 2000 BC, colourized.

Fags will see this, look you dead in the eye, and tell you the AIDS crisis was Reagan’s fault.

>bro bro you gotta read Heraclitus then Descartes then Leibniz then Kant then Hegel to understand Marx

The Latrine Disaster of 1184 was the mass death of 60 important local nobles in Erfurt, Germany while attending to a land dispute, dying after the rotten support beams collapsed them into a sewage of human waste, drowning them to death.

Alexamenos Graffito. The earliest known depiction of Jesus Christ. Dating to between the 1st and 3rd centuries. Found at a Paedagogium (boarding school) in Rome. This is thought to be reflecting the ideas of Apion who accused the early Christians of onolatry (donkey-worship).

soviets really looked at a map of europe and thought: "how can we make the most hideously horrible borders ever possible?" and so came up with ukraine

The item contains the “autograph” of an individual, said to be the “first recorded personal name of any human in history…Kushim”

This is how people went in medieval castles. A"garderobe" referred to a simple toilet, often situated within a castle or other building. It was typically a hole in the floor or wall, designed to direct waste either into a cesspit, the castle's moat, or outside the building.

Communism: Thoughts on the history of communism? Was it real communism? Why do so many people always die during it

The Great Mosque of Djenné: Considered one of the most famous landmarks in Africa. I always thought the recognizable structure we can see today stood there since medieval times, when Islam expanded into west Africa and what is now Mali. But it turns out that, while the original mosque does date from around the 13th century, i…

Just 2 more millennia

this is what Caesar first saw when he stepped foot in Britannia, 55 BC

European history: Cool infograph on european history

BCE instead of BC: You might have noticed this trend. It's prominent in academic journals, some history books, and notably in Wikipedia. The idea is to provide "a neutral way" to label historical dates by replacing Before Christ with Before Common Era. In turn, CE (Common Era) is the alternative to AD (Anno Domini, "…

Genuinely what has this country ever achieved in it's thousands of years of history?

>Haiti's first Head of state Jean-Jacques Dessalines called Polish people "the White Negroes of Europe", which was then regarded a great honour as it meant brotherhood between Poles and Haitians after Polish Legionnaires joined the black Haitian slaves during the Haitian Revolution. >Dessalines als…

If you could live in any century, which one would you pick? Hard mode: you have to roll the dice on your wealth and location

Ok guys can we settle this once and for all please: did Trotsky invent the word "racist" or is it a myth? Grok says he didn't.

historical sickos: wtf was his problem

One of the earliest known depictions of Jesus Christ is a piece of Roman graffiti dated to around the 3rd century AD, discovered in a wall on the Palatine Hill, Rome. It shows a human figure with the head of a donkey attached to a cross, with a second figure raising a hand in a gesture of worship,…

VGH... WHAT COULD HAVE BEEN....: Groß East Asia Co-Prosperity Sphere... glorious Nippon would have achieved its true destiny...

Anglo Saxon History: post about cool things the anglo saxons did