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The decline of the US is like the fall of the Roman Empire.
https://www.worldatlas.com/ancient-world/how-corruption-destroyed-the-roman-empire.html -
The decline of the US is like the fall of the Roman Empire.
https://www.worldatlas.com/ancient-world/how-corruption-destroyed-the-roman-empire.html -
Submerged Roman port in Italy possibly linked to Octavian’s 44 BCE landing, under excavation
Archaeologists have begun a new season of research at San Giovanni, inside the Le Cesine State Nature Reserve near Vernole in southern Italy. A major focus this year is a large Roman port complex lying beneath the sea in front of the former pumping station...
More info: https://archaeologymag.com/2026/09/submerged-roman-port-in-italy-under-excavation/
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#archaeology #archaeologynews #romanempire #romanarchitecture #underwaterarchaeology
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Submerged Roman port in Italy possibly linked to Octavian’s 44 BCE landing, under excavation
Archaeologists have begun a new season of research at San Giovanni, inside the Le Cesine State Nature Reserve near Vernole in southern Italy. A major focus this year is a large Roman port complex lying beneath the sea in front of the former pumping station...
More info: https://archaeologymag.com/2026/09/submerged-roman-port-in-italy-under-excavation/
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#archaeology #archaeologynews #romanempire #romanarchitecture #underwaterarchaeology
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Submerged Roman port in Italy possibly linked to Octavian’s 44 BCE landing, under excavation
Archaeologists have begun a new season of research at San Giovanni, inside the Le Cesine State Nature Reserve near Vernole in southern Italy. A major focus this year is a large Roman port complex lying beneath the sea in front of the former pumping station...
More info: https://archaeologymag.com/2026/09/submerged-roman-port-in-italy-under-excavation/
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#archaeology #archaeologynews #romanempire #romanarchitecture #underwaterarchaeology
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Submerged Roman port in Italy possibly linked to Octavian’s 44 BCE landing, under excavation
Archaeologists have begun a new season of research at San Giovanni, inside the Le Cesine State Nature Reserve near Vernole in southern Italy. A major focus this year is a large Roman port complex lying beneath the sea in front of the former pumping station...
More info: https://archaeologymag.com/2026/09/submerged-roman-port-in-italy-under-excavation/
Follow @archaeology
#archaeology #archaeologynews #romanempire #romanarchitecture #underwaterarchaeology
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Submerged Roman port in Italy possibly linked to Octavian’s 44 BCE landing, under excavation
Archaeologists have begun a new season of research at San Giovanni, inside the Le Cesine State Nature Reserve near Vernole in southern Italy. A major focus this year is a large Roman port complex lying beneath the sea in front of the former pumping station...
More info: https://archaeologymag.com/2026/09/submerged-roman-port-in-italy-under-excavation/
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#archaeology #archaeologynews #romanempire #romanarchitecture #underwaterarchaeology
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Two thousand years after Mount Vesuvius buried it under six meters of ash, Pompeii remains one of the most visited archaeological sites on earth—and one of the most persistently haunted. #pompeii #ghosts #romanempire https://youtu.be/2qu0wu5hqeM
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Super spannende Rezension zu einem Buch, das erstmals die Geschichte Skandinaviens als Region am Rande des Imperiums rekonstruiert. Man erfährt die coolsten Dinge & wird schlauer was Methodologie für so prä-schreibende Kulturen angeht. Und ja: Eisbären im Kolosseum.
#history #antiquity #prehistory #scandinavia #romanempire #books #Reviewhttps://www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v48/n14/michael-kulikowski/polar-bears-in-rome
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The Basques: Europe’s Ancient Survivors Who Refused to Disappear
Basque Shepherd Dogs (Artzain Txakurra)
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Ardi_zakurrak.jpg
License: CC BY-SA 4.0 (free to use with attribution)Dear Cherubs, if Europe were a family reunion, the Basques would be that mysterious relative who turns up speaking a language nobody else understands—and somehow has the oldest stories in the room. While empires came and went like fashion trends, the Basques simply carried on, quietly proving that survival is sometimes history’s greatest flex.
AN ANCIENT PEOPLE
The Basques are widely regarded as one of Europe’s oldest continuous cultural communities. While modern genetics shows they are not a completely isolated or “pure” people—a myth long abandoned by historians—they do preserve remarkable continuity with populations living in the western Pyrenees since prehistoric times. According to recent archaeological and genetic research, the region has been inhabited for thousands of years, with cultural continuity stretching back to the Neolithic, even as populations mixed over time.
Their language, Euskara, is the real headline act. Unlike Spanish, French, English, or almost every other European language, it belongs to no known language family. Linguists classify it as a language isolate, meaning no proven relationship has been established with any living language. That’s not just unusual—it is spectacularly rare.
For decades, the oldest known written Basque dated from Roman times. Then archaeologists uncovered the Hand of Irulegi in Navarre, a bronze artifact from around the 1st century BC bearing a Proto-Basque inscription. According to researchers, it pushed written Basque back several centuries and confirmed that the language was already established before full Romanization. It was archaeology’s version of finding an old hard drive that still boots.
EMPIRES CAME, BASQUES STAYED
The Romans conquered much of the Iberian Peninsula but never completely erased Basque identity. Instead, local communities gradually adopted aspects of Roman life while retaining their language in many mountainous regions. Later came the Visigoths, Muslim expansion into Iberia, Frankish influence, and the rise of the medieval Kingdom of Navarre. Through every political shift, Euskara survived where many other ancient European languages disappeared.
By the Middle Ages, Basque sailors were among Europe’s finest navigators. Historical records show they hunted whales in the Bay of Biscay and reached the rich cod fisheries off Newfoundland before many better-known maritime powers. They were quietly building an international reputation long before branding consultants existed.
The modern era brought fresh challenges. Following the Carlist Wars in the nineteenth century, traditional Basque self-government was significantly reduced. During Francisco Franco’s dictatorship (1939–1975), public use of Euskara was heavily restricted in Spain, and many cultural expressions were suppressed. Ironically, those policies strengthened local determination to preserve the language.
After Spain’s transition to democracy, Euskara experienced a remarkable revival. Today it is an official language in the Basque Autonomous Community and enjoys varying degrees of recognition elsewhere. Schools, universities, media outlets, and technology companies actively promote its use, although UNESCO continues to classify some Basque dialects as vulnerable.
The Basques are not “Europe’s original bloodline” in any literal biological sense. Modern populations everywhere are products of thousands of years of migration and intermarriage. What makes the Basques extraordinary is something arguably more impressive: they have maintained a unique language and cultural identity while adapting to every major political transformation Europe has experienced.
History often celebrates conquerors. The Basques remind us that sometimes the greatest achievement is simply refusing to vanish.
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The Thisclaimer logo blends a classic warning symbol with a brain icon to represent critical thinking, curiosity, and thoughtful disclaimers. #ancientBasques #ancientCivilizations #ancientEurope #ancientLanguages #archaeology #archaeologyDiscoveries #basajaun #basque #basqueCountry #basqueCulture #basqueFolklore #basqueGenetics #basqueHistory #basqueLanguage #basquePeople #basqueRevival #basqueTraditions #culturalHeritage #endangeredLanguages #europeanAncestry #europeanArchaeology #europeanCultures #europeanHistory #euskalHerria #euskara #francoDictatorship #frenchBasqueCountry #geneticsOfEurope #handOfIrulegi #historicalDiscoveries #historyFacts #humanMigration #iberianHistory #indigenousEurope #irulegiInscription #kingdomOfNavarre #languageIsolate #mariGoddess #medievalEurope #navarre #navarreHistory #preRomanEurope #prehistoricEurope #protoBasque #pyrenees #romanEmpire #spanishHistory #unescoLanguages #uniqueLanguages #worldHistory
Thisclaimer — https://thisclaimer.com
Euskaltzaindia (Royal Academy of the Basque Language) — https://www.euskaltzaindia.eus
Encyclopaedia Britannica: Basque — https://www.britannica.com/topic/Basque
National Geographic — https://www.nationalgeographic.com/history/article/hand-irulegi-oldest-written-basque-language
UNESCO Atlas of the World’s Languages — https://en.wal.unesco.org/
Aranzadi Science Society — https://www.aranzadi.eus -
Countries Which Have At Some Point Claimed To Be Rome’s Successor [mapping / Third Rome]
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https://brilliantmaps.com/third-rome/ <-- shared technical / history article
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Succession_of_the_Roman_Empire <-- shared Third Rome wiki page
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“The [first] map… shows which countries have claimed to be the successor to the Roman Empire at some point in their history (the so-called Third Rome). Learn more about each [in this article]…”
#ThirdRome #RomanEmpire #Rome #successor #map #mapping #spatial #empire #civilisation #turkey #russia #byzantine #bulguria #serbia #greece #germany #austria #france #italy #history #ancienthistory #historiography #BrillantMaps
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Aramaic inscription reveals Christians sealed a Roman Mithras Temple 1,700 years ago
A newly decoded Aramaic inscription at Zerzevan Castle in southeastern Türkiye has answered a long-standing question about an underground Mithras Temple. The text shows early Christians formally sealed the sanctuary about 1,700 years ago after Christianity became the leading religion of the Roman Empire...
More info: https://archaeologymag.com/2026/06/ancient-aramaic-inscription-zerzevan-castle/
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"Guess who gets to be caught in the middle!"
https://piefed.social/c/historymemes/p/2179887/guess-who-gets-to-be-caught-in-the-middle
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"Guess who gets to be caught in the middle!"
https://piefed.social/c/roughromanmemes/p/2179885/guess-who-gets-to-be-caught-in-the-middle
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The Romans Have A Reputation For Building Straight Roads…
[mapping with remote sensing, etc --> open data]
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https://www.livescience.com/archaeology/romans/how-did-the-romans-build-such-straight-roads <-- shared technical article
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https://doi.org/10.1038/s41597-025-06140-z <-- shared paper, “Itiner-e: A high-resolution dataset of roads of the Roman Empire”
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https://itiner-e.org/ <-- shared webmap “Itiner-e – The Digital Atlas of Ancient Roads”
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https://youtu.be/OTSe7MsJXbo?si=nWl8PZHNmyL_yXEJ <-- shated Itiner-e overview/animation video
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https://youtu.be/ge9XV2eKLvQ?si=OwPWoocT4nVG9gaV <-- shared video, “Roman Surveyors - The Engineers Who Shaped Rome"
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[at high school my favourite subject was Ancient History, witha focus on the Roman Empire, with the formidable Mr. Marriot! @Edgewater College, Pakuranga]
“Itiner-e aims to host the most detailed open digital dataset of roads in the entire Roman Empire. The data creation is a collaborative ongoing project edited by a scholarly community. Itiner-e allows you to view, query and download roads. Each road segment has a URI that allows it to be cited and linked by external resources. It also includes a route-finding tool to explore travel itineries and times in the ancient world (beta version)…”
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“The Roman Empire’s road system was critical for structuring the movement of people, goods and ideas, and sustaining imperial control. Yet, it remains incompletely mapped and poorly integrated across sources despite centuries of research. [They] present Itiner-e, the most detailed and comprehensive open digital dataset of roads in the entire Roman Empire. It was created by identifying roads from archaeological and historical sources, locating them using modern and historical topographic maps and remote sensing, and digitising them with road segment-level metadata and certainty categories. The dataset nearly doubles the known length of Roman roads through increased coverage and spatial precision, and reveals that the location of only 2.737% are known with certainty. This resource is transformative for understanding how mobility shaped connectivity, administration, and even disease transmission in the ancient world, and for studies of the millennia-long development of terrestrial mobility in the region…”
#ancienthistory #rome #roman #road #agrimensores #gromatici #survey #surveying #instruments #transportation #empire #messenger #administration #military #legions #soldiers #construction #mapping #remotesensing #Itinere #opendata #spatial #RomanEmpire #archaeology #history #topography #connectivity #terrestrial #mobility #webmap #GIS #mapping #research #network #segment #URI #routing #trade #economics
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Mithras sanctuary in Močići challenges Roman temple model with open-air ritual landscape
Mithras worship in the Roman Empire traces back to an ancient Iranian deity, Mithra, rooted in early Persian religious tradition. In pre-Zoroastrian and later Zoroastrian contexts, Mithra appears as a figure tied to contracts, light, and cosmic order...More information: https://archaeologymag.com/2026/06/mithras-sanctuary-in-mocici/
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#archaeology #archeology #archaeologynews #mithras #mithraism #romanempire
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Daily reminder that the good old days of the Empire weren't THAT good...
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Daily reminder that the good old days of the Empire weren't THAT good...
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"Statistically speaking, you won't survive, but you wouldn't in civilian life either tbf"
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"Statistically speaking, you won't survive, but you wouldn't in civilian life either tbf"
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Come one, come all, buy my NFCs before they run out!
https://piefed.social/c/historymemes/p/2100579/come-one-come-all-buy-my-nfcs-before-they-run-out
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Come one, come all, buy my NFCs before they run out!
https://piefed.social/c/roughromanmemes/p/2100578/come-one-come-all-buy-my-nfcs-before-they-run-out
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Roman legionary in combat stance (Alessandro Lonati)
https://piefed.social/c/historyart/p/2095329/roman-legionary-in-combat-stance-alessandro-lonati
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POV: you're heading into the Crisis of the Third Century
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POV: you're heading into the Crisis of the Third Century
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[PART 2] How rigidity and failure to learn destroyed Macedonia — and the entire ancient Greek world
https://medium.com/@sensmedia.srl/part-2-how-rigidity-and-failure-to-learn-destroyed-macedonia-and-the-entire-ancient-greek-world-5e0adfbb974a
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[PART 1] How rigidity and failure to learn destroyed Macedonia — and the entire ancient Greek world
https://medium.com/@sensmedia.srl/part-1-how-rigidity-and-failure-to-learn-destroyed-macedonia-and-the-entire-ancient-greek-world-019069dd2213
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Left-to-right, a Roman centurion (commander of ~100 men), optio (lieutenant), and ordinary legionary, 2nd century AD (Giorgio Albertini)
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"Literally kys" - General Paulinus
https://piefed.social/c/historymemes/p/2037624/literally-kys-general-paulinus
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"Literally kys" - General Paulinus
https://piefed.social/c/roughromanmemes/p/2037623/literally-kys-general-paulinus
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Our special skill is RULING, not RIDING!
https://piefed.social/c/historymemes/p/2032533/our-special-skill-is-ruling-not-riding
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Our special skill is RULING, not RIDING!
https://piefed.social/c/roughromanmemes/p/2032516/our-special-skill-is-ruling-not-riding
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We call this, "Soldiers' democracy"! Gaius, you may cast the first vote!
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We call this, "Soldiers' democracy"! Gaius, you may cast the first vote!
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Staff-slinger of the Late Roman Army
https://piefed.social/c/historyart/p/2010209/staff-slinger-of-the-late-roman-army
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SOLITUDINEM FACIMUS, PACEM APPELLAMUS
https://piefed.social/c/historymemes/p/1995837/solitudinem-facimus-pacem-appellamus
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SOLITUDINEM FACIMUS, PACEM APPELLAMUS
https://piefed.social/c/roughromanmemes/p/1995835/solitudinem-facimus-pacem-appellamus
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Roman legionary of the 2nd-3rd century AD demonstrating a thrust
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"Don't be like Galba... you twit."
https://piefed.social/c/historymemes/p/1985065/don-t-be-like-galba-you-twit
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"Don't be like Galba... you twit."
https://piefed.social/c/roughromanmemes/p/1985064/don-t-be-like-galba-you-twit
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Why Christianity has never been a peaceful religion
https://medium.com/@sensmedia.srl/why-christianity-has-never-been-a-peaceful-religion-6ac9d4663dd1
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What fighting fashions a TRULY superior culture results in! (AnonHistory)
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What fighting fashions a TRULY superior culture results in! (AnonHistory)
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Common Spartan L; Rome 4eva
https://piefed.social/c/historymemes/p/1977713/common-spartan-l-rome-4eva
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Common Spartan L; Rome 4eva
https://piefed.social/c/roughromanmemes/p/1977711/common-spartan-l-rome-4eva
