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Within a Buddhist stupa at Mohenjo-Daro in southeastern Pakistan, the Indus civilization’s largest settlement around 4,500 years ago, archaeologists spotted a terracotta pot containing hundreds of copper coins (pictured) dated to the Kushan Empire (ca. A.D. 50–250).
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(Courtesy Syed Shakir Ali Shah)
An Interesting Map dating back to the year 1520.
What caught my eye, that the city of Multan was under the Sind province.
I had heard that Multan was a historical city of traders who used to travel to multan from China, Iran and Dehli.
The majority of the population of the city of Multan was under the Sikhs.
Hegra, also known as Mada’in Salih, is an archaeological site located in the area of Al-'Ula within Medina Province in the Hejaz, Saudi Arabia. A majority of the remains date from the Nabataean Kingdom.
The extensive settlement of the site took place during the 1st century AD, when it came under the rule of the Nabatean king Aretas IV Philopatris (Al-Harith IV) (9 BCE – 40 CE), who made Madain Saleh the kingdom's second capital, after Petra, located 500 kilometers to the north.
The tombs are over 2,000 years old. The most iconic symbol of Madain Saleh is Qasr al-Farid, a single tomb carved into a small dome that stands alone in the open.
This historical photo was taken during the excavation of the Moin mound in 1922. In which a laborer is showing the statue of King Priest to Sir John Marshall and other officers. A well-known fisher who was Sir John Marshall's apprentice used to say, "On finding the statue, all the officers celebrated with great joy and wore masks."
This ring was discovered on a woman buried around 1,200 years ago in Birka, an ancient Viking city located 30 km (19 miles) west of contemporary Stockholm, Sweden. What sets this ring apart is the inscription "for Allah" in Kufic Arabic, commonly used between the 8th and 10th centuries. It provides evidence of direct contact between Vikings and the Abbasid Caliphate, the third caliphate succeeding the Islamic prophet Muhammad (PBUH).
Before and after finding the ziggurat of Ur, the stronghold of the Sumerian civilization in Mesopotamia, the first ziggurat in history, which was built by the founder of the first legal canons in history, the Sumerian King Urnmu 3800 BC and was the capital of the Sumerian civilization of the dynasty of Ur
5,500-Year-Old Sumerian Star Map
For over 150 years scientists have tried to solve the mystery of a controversial cuneiform clay tablet that indicates the so-called Köfel’s impact event was observed in ancient times. The circular stone-cast tablet was recovered from the 650 BC underground library of King Ashurbanipal in Nineveh, Iraq in the late 19th century. Long thought to be an Assyrian tablet, computer analysis has matched it with the sky above Mesopotamia in 3300 BC and proves it to be of much more ancient Sumerian origin. The tablet is an “Astrolabe,” the earliest known astronomical instrument. It consists of a segmented, disk-shaped star chart with marked units of angle measure inscribed upon the rim
Atronauts Neil A. Armstrong and David R. Scott sit with their spacecraft hatches open while awaiting the arrival of the recovery ship, the USS Leonard F. Mason after the successful, but early, completion of their Gemini VIII mission. They are assisted by USAF Pararescuemen Eldrige M. Neal, Larry D. Huyett, and Glenn M. Moore. The overhead view shows the Gemini 8 spacecraft with the yellow flotation collar attached to stabilize the spacecraft in choppy seas. The green marker dye is highly visible from the air and is used as a locating aid.
Image Credit: NASA
Date: March 17, 1966
Street Vendor Selling Mummies in Egypt, 1875
During the Victorian era of 1800’s, mummies were not accorded the respect that they deserved from the European elites and in fact, mummies could be purchased from street vendors to be used as the main event for parties and social gatherings that took place in the 18th century (Mummy Unwrapping Parties).
During that period of time, the well-preserved remains of ancient Egyptians were routinely ground into powder and consumed as a medicinal remedy, or as fertilizers, or to create mummy brown pigment, or were stripped of their wrappings, which were subsequently exported for use in the paper-making industry. The author Mark Twain even reported that mummies were burnt in Egypt as locomotive fuel.
As the nineteenth century advanced, mummies became prized objects of display and scores of them were purchased by wealthy European and American private collectors as tourist souvenirs. For those who could not afford a whole mummy, disarticulated remains – such as a head, hand or foot – could be purchased on the black market and smuggled back home.
So brisk was the trade in mummies to Europe that even after ransacking tombs and catacombs there just were not enough ancient Egyptian bodies to meet the demand. And so "fake mummies" were fabricated from the corpses of the executed criminals, the aged, the poor and those who had died from hideous diseases, by burying them in the sand or stuffing them with bitumen and exposing them to the sun.
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Ref. ebaumsworld - Photo credit: Félix Bonfils
