• @Cyberflunk
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    251 month ago

    Ariel photography in 1300bc? I’m here for it.

    • @bamfic
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      141 month ago

      Didnt know mermaids could take such good pictures

      • @WaxedWookie
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        111 month ago

        It was the titans… definitely the titans given this city layout.

        • @SendMePhotos
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          31 month ago

          Yeah, that’ll happen when you build a city like that.

  • BigFig
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    91 month ago

    Why did they build the wall along the side with the sheer cliff face I wonder

    • @rustyredox
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      101 month ago

      Got to have watchtowers for those pesky rock climbing mongolian assassins. A nice smooth brick surface slows them down and slips them a bit like heavy beatles clamoring up glass. /s

      • @Uruanna
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        It’s a few hundred years later, after the Hittites have disappeared, but Assurnasirpal II claims to have scaled a mountain peak “like the point of an iron dagger” to slaughter everyone inside the fortress at the top. Twice.

        https://cdli.ox.ac.uk/wiki/doku.php?id=assurnasirpal_ii

      • @bamfic
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        61 month ago

        Mongolians? In 1300BC? Wasn’t it 2,500 years later, in like, 1200AD when they came rolling thru?

        • @RoidingOldMan
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          Attilla the Hun was around 450 AD too. Not exactly Mongolian, but very similar in the sense of being nomadic horse archers from the steppe.

          • @[email protected]
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            41 month ago

            They might actually be related. The huns originated from east of the Volga river (so east of the Scythians) and recent research identified genetic links to ancient Mongols

  • @credo
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    21 month ago

    I thought it was a slice of pie.