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  1. 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...

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tartary

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

  2. The Dendera lamp is a claim by some conspiracy theorists and "alternate" history nuts that reliefs in the temple of Dendera in #Egypt "prove" that the Ancient Egyptians harnessed electricity and used it for lighting.

    The name "Dendera lamp" is named after the fringe theories; the name wasn't chosen because there's any actual lamp. There isn't.

    #RationalWiki #Denderalamp #pseudohistory #ancientegypt
    rationalwiki.org/wiki/Dendera_

  3. Gurjar queens, Vokkaliga warriors: How BJP is inventing history for a new Hindutva caste politics

    Historians suggest that the heroes the BJP is invoking to allegedly attract castes either do not exist or their role is being exaggerated.

    #BJP #caste #CastePolitics #history #pseudohistory #FreedomStruggle #karnataka #TipuSultan #vokkaligas #gurjars #muslims #elections #hindutva #india

    scroll.in/article/1045746/gurj