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Tartary (Cartography 🗺️)

Tartary or Tatary was a blanket term used in Western European literature and cartography for a vast part of Asia bounded by the Caspian Sea, the Ural Mountains, the Pacific Ocean, and the northern borders of Medieval China, India, and Persia, at a time when this region was largely unknown to European geographers. The active use of the toponym can be traced f...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tartary

#Tartary #Exonyms #EastAsia #Cartography #MongolStates #Pseudohistory

Jezebel: Sex. Celebrity. Politics. With Teeth: Anti-Vax Conspiracy Theorists Harass LeBron James’ Family Over Bronny’s Hospitalization https://jezebel.com/anti-vax-conspiracy-theorists-harass-lebron-james-fami-1850678237 #Jezebel #vaccinehesitancy #covid19vaccine #pseudohistory #bennyjohnson #lebronjames #charliekirk #nancypelosi #bronnyjames #myocarditis #teslainc #fakenews #elonmusk #twitter #qanon #musk

The idea that the #Joseph of the Old Testament was #Imhotep is a mixture of the usual "Biblical history" pseudo-historical distortion, with a bit of crossover appeal to the lunatic fringe "Alternative" #Egyptology nuts. It's a kind of anti-intellectual, anti-historical supermarket, with something for everyone.

Jason Colavito has traced the historiography of the connection between #pyramids and Joseph's grain silos to the late antiquity and early medieval writers Julius Honorius and Gregory of Tours. Honorius' Cosmographia, probably written in the 4th or 5th century CE, specifically mentioned that the pyramids were Joseph's granaries, whereas Gregory's 6th century History of the Franks alluded to the same idea, but without using the word "pyramid".

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#RationalWiki #Bible #oldtestament #pseudohistory
https://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Joseph_was_Imhotep