#hiddenhistory — Public Fediverse posts
Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #hiddenhistory, aggregated by home.social.
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History remembers the inventor with the patent, the money and the institution behind them—not always the person who got there first.
From Edison and RCA to Colossus, Margaret Knight and the Invention Secrecy Act, this is how genius gets captured, commercialised and rewritten.
The Great Invention Heist:
https://thomaster.substack.com/p/the-great-invention-heist#History #Inventions #Technology #Patents #CorporatePower #HiddenHistory #ThomAster
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In Indonesia's Toraja highlands, the dead remain with their families for years, before extraordinary rituals send them toward the ancestral afterlife.
#AncientOrigins #Toraja #AncientTraditions #HiddenHistory #FuneralRituals #Archaeology
Read more:https://www.ancient-origins.net/ancient-places-asia/toraja-people-and-most-complex-funeral-rituals-world-001268 -
A coin used on a 1950s bus turned out to be over 2,000 years old… from the ancient city of Gadir.
How did it get there?
#HistoryMystery #AncientCoins #HiddenHistory #Archaeology #DidYouKnow
Read more:https://www.ancient-origins.net/news-history-archaeology/ancient-coin-leeds-00102591