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Ancient Originsancientorigins
2026-01-21

Scroll fragments once labeled “blank” revealed hidden Hebrew and Aramaic letters using new tech, shaking up Dead Sea Scroll history and helping fight forgeries.
Read more: ancient-origins.net/news-histo

Assembly BethesdaAssembly_Bethesda
2026-01-19

Dive into the wild world of the Book of Enoch! Fallen angels, giant offspring, cosmic secrets, and eternal gloom await in this apocryphal gem. Uncover mysteries that echo through time.

assemblybethesda.com/echoes-of

Cat 🐈‍⬛🛰️catbailey@infosec.space
2026-01-08

I woke up on the spicy side of the jobhunting front today.

ko-fi.com/post/On-jobhunting-o

(Like, support, share!)

#writing #kofi #jobhunting #ancienttexts #llm #defense #support

Ancient Originsancientorigins
2026-01-05

The Voynich Manuscript is a fifteenth‑century book written in an unknown script. Despite decades of study, it remains undeciphered, though modern analysis confirms it follows real linguistic patterns.

Read more: ancient-origins.net/artifacts-

N-gated Hacker Newsngate
2026-01-02

🎉 Oh, joy! Another riveting day where ancient texts finally escape copyright jail, only to join the treasure trove of free stuff nobody reads. 📚✨ Because nothing screams "true book lover" like waiting 95 years to download a dusty classic for free. 🙄
standardebooks.org/blog/public

Buddhistdoor Global (BDG)buddhistdoor
2025-12-29

Buddhist Heritage: Khyentse Foundation to Extend Support for Conservation of Gandhari Scrolls at Islamabad Museum

🔗 Read more: tinyurl.com/49vurmt2

Ancient Originsancientorigins
2025-12-18

A rare 13th‑century Christian manuscript bound in seal skin, hidden for generations on a Norwegian farm, has emerged as possibly Norway’s oldest book, revealing early medieval religious life.
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Read more: ancient-origins.net/news-histo

Ancient Originsancientorigins
2025-11-18

Ancient Astronaut Theory explores human origins through alternative readings of Sumerian texts. Researchers like Sitchin and von Däniken inspired ideas about aliens, symbols, and mysteries, while interpretations vary widely.
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Read more: ancient-origins.net/human-orig

Steve Dustcircle 🌹dustcircle
2025-11-07

The Doesn't Say So

youtube.com/watch?v=VidaQPd3C6Q

Dr. Dan McClellan is well known for online. He’ll explain why understanding biases matters and how misunderstanding shapes modern debates in harmful ways. Dr. Dan McClellan is a public scholar of the Bible and . He earned his PhD in and religion from the University of Exeter

Steve Dustcircle 🌹dustcircle@masto.ai
2025-07-12

Did John COPY This Lost Gospel? 🤯Egerton Gospel #gospelmanuscripts

The Egerton Gospel COULD be a source for John's gospel. it could preserve separate traditions. Or, it may have come later. We'll learn the history and explore the manuscript!

youtube.com/watch?v=FL9un1FX2p

#ReligionHistory #AncientHistory #BiblicalArchaeology #HistoricalJesus #ReligiousOrigins #AncientMysteries #EarlyChristianity #BiblicalHistory #AncientTexts #HistoricalControversy #ReligiousStudies #AncientReligions #LostGospels

Steve Dustcircle 🌹dustcircle
2025-05-23

Do Just Make Stuff Up?

youtube.com/watch?v=YjYkiQkF0ds

Steve Dustcircle 🌹dustcircle@masto.ai
2025-05-22

The most misunderstood Bible verse? All scripture?

youtube.com/watch?v=iUytpJ8c9O

#ReligionHistory #AncientHistory #BiblicalArchaeology #HistoricalJesus #ReligiousOrigins #AncientMysteries #EarlyChristianity #BiblicalHistory #AncientTexts #HistoricalControversy #ReligiousStudies #AncientReligions #LostGospels #BiblicalMyths #ReligiousHistory #AncientMyths #ComparativeReligion #HistoricalResearch #AncientSecrets #BiblicalControversies #ReligiousEvolution #HistoricalEvidence #AncientBooks

Hacker Newsh4ckernews
2025-05-11

Title of work deciphered in sealed Herculaneum scroll via digital unwrapping

finebooksmagazine.com/fine-boo

tarakiyeetarakiyee@mastodon.online
2025-03-31

I trained an AI on ancient undeciphered scripts like the Voynich Manuscript and the results are... a bit unsettling. Here's what I wish I DIDNT learn: tarakiyee.com/training-an-ai-o

#AI #MachineLearning #AncientTexts

N-gated Hacker Newsngate
2025-03-25

🚨 Breaking News: is still trending! 📈 argue over ancient texts like hipsters at a vintage sale, while others are baffled that his stories, unlike their houseplants, refuse to die. 📚✨
newyorker.com/magazine/2025/03

Steve Dustcircle 🌹dustcircle
2025-03-16

5 Messed Up Details -

youtube.com/watch?v=n-8BgASPom4

gr8commandment
2024-03-22

Putting the New Testament Record to the Test - The American Vision buff.ly/3wZP9zs

DoomsdaysCWDoomsdaysCW@kolektiva.social
2024-01-27

So, my take on #Christianity (after exploring several sects -- as well as other religions), and reading some of the texts in the original languages (Hebrew and Koine Greek), as well as studying Greek and Roman history -- that pretty much, the Romans saw the popularity of early Christianity (which was based on earlier mystery cults), as being a threat to their rule. So they incorporated elements of Christianity into Roman Christianity (which later became Roman Catholicism) -- fusing Christian beliefs (myths) into the existing Roman state religious structure (divine ancestor worship, virgin birth, etc) -- and turned it into the colonizing, misogynistic, abusive, xenophobic monster that committed genocide on Indigenous peoples, subjugated women, and erased any religion that wasn't "Christianity." I think that about sums it up...

#AncientHistory #AncientTexts #AncientMediterranean #AncientReligions #ChurchAndState #RomanChristianity #Christianity #Vatican #PaterPatriae #ThePope

DoomsdaysCWDoomsdaysCW@kolektiva.social
2024-01-27

I noticed this as well!

#AncientTexts depict all kinds of people, not just straight and cis ones – this college course looks at #LGBTQ sexuality and #gender in #Egypt, #Greece and #Rome

By Tina Chronopoulos
Published: September 11, 2023

Title of course:

“LGBTQ Antiquity: A View from the Mediterranean”

What prompted the idea for the course?

I study Greek and Latin literature and have noticed that ancient authors wrote about sex, #homoerotic feelings or relations, and gender more often than we assume.

A few figures from ancient Mediterranean mythology are sometimes held up as LGBTQ ancestors – such as the Greek gods #Apollo and #Zeus who both loved other men. But in a mythology course I taught in the fall of 2021, I found myself highlighting a number of other stories about same-sex attraction and gender variance beyond a strict male-female binary. For example, spells from Egypt show that there were women who tried to get other women to fall in love with them.

Students responded with such curiosity and excitement that I decided to create a stand-alone course that would focus exclusively on these topics.

What does the course explore?

The course explores literary texts from the #AncientMediterranean – including #Mesopotamia, Egypt, Greece and Roman Italy – in which authors describe relationships that can be said to fall under the LGBTQ umbrella. We read the texts in chronological order, rather than grouped by theme or identity. This allows students to encounter the texts relatively label-free, since the words U.S. society uses to talk about gender and sexuality today – like “gay” or “transgender” – do not always align with ancient understandings.

Why is this course relevant now?

Assaults on members of the LGBTQ community, especially trans folks, are rising in the United States: both through legal means in a number of states and through physical attacks and hate crimes.

My goal is for students to take courage and hope from knowing that same-sex relationships and gender diversity have existed in various guises for millennia. In antiquity, homosexuality was not considered an identity category the way it is today, making it hard to determine if and how LGBTQ-like people were discriminated against, but they certainly were not always met with contempt. For example, the body of #Hermaphroditus, a god whom Greeks sought out for help with fertility and child care issues, combined female and male characteristics.

I also want students to connect with the past as a way to feel rooted and validated. In this, I took a cue from trans activist #LeslieFeinberg, who wrote in the 1996 book “#TransgenderWarriors,” “I couldn’t find myself in history. No one like me seemed to have ever existed.”
What’s a critical lesson from the course?

LGBTQ-like individuals have always been here, although modern conceptions of self, gender and sexuality cannot be mapped directly onto the past.

The identities we know today were unknown then: The concept of homosexuality as a distinct sexual orientation or distinct kind of behavior did not exist. For instance, elite men in ancient Athens often engaged in same-sex relationships with men alongside their marriages to women. Those who were in exclusively homoerotic relationships, however, tended to be ridiculed.

Another critical lesson is that language matters. The words we use today are often inadequate to capture how social status or age intersected with one’s gender in the ancient Mediterranean. Take the Greek word for a woman or wife, “γῠνή.” Typically, this word refers to an upper-class woman, rather than, say, one who is enslaved or a foreigner. Norms around sexual activity depended on a person’s social status, age and gender.

What materials does the course feature?

Students come into the course expecting to encounter celebrated characters such as the poet #Sappho, from the Greek island of #Lesbos, whom lesbians have regarded as an ancestor.

However, we also read less famous authors, such as #Lucian of #Samosata, a Syrian-born satirist from the second century C.E. In one of his dialogues, a sex worker tells her friend about an encounter she had with two other women, one of whom describes herself as “quite like a man.”

Not all authors are sympathetic. #JohnChrysostom, archbishop of Constantinople at the end of the fourth century C.E., vilified people who engaged in homoerotic acts or homosexual relationships as criminals, mentally ill, diseased or diabolic. Many of these views are still being promulgated by religious leaders today.

The course also explores the lives of some Byzantine saints who were seen as women before they entered a monastery or became ascetics. Yet their self-punishing practices, such as extreme fasting, transformed their bodies, and the surrounding communities started to see them as men. These stories, which aimed to uplift their audiences, serve as a reminder that cross-dressing and gender variance were not always seen as objectionable.

Read more:
theconversation.com/ancient-te

#AncientRome #AncientGreece #AncientEgypt #LGBTQHistory #Histodon #AncientHistory

Calico Jessedeinol@dice.camp
2023-10-02

Four pictures of a toddler wearing lettuce.

Person 1: I have read in ancient texts that this is actually a form of dryad.

Person 2: Once again [redacted], the 3.5 D&D splatbook put out by Mongoose in 2007 about making Dryads, Nymphs, and Brownies playable characters is not an "ancient text".

#TTRPG #DnD #Dryad #d20 #Memes #DnDMemes #AncientTexts #Mongoose #DnD35

Four pictures of a toddler wearing lettuce. Person 1: I have read in ancient texts that this is actually a form of dryad. Person 2: Once again [redacted], the 3.5 D&D splatbook put out by Mongoose in 2007 about making Dryads, Nymphs, and Brownies playable characters is not an "ancient text".

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