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"In Lord of the Rings, the majority of the Riders of Rohan were women with fake beards. The horses used were owned by those women" #Amazons

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Neo-Assyrian pack of tiny clay painted mastiffs, 650 BC, found in Nineveh Palaces, inscribed with their names Catcher of the Enemy, Don’t Think, Bite! Biter of His Foe, Loud Bark, Expeller of Evil British Museum

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Schiaparelli crystal ant skirt, 2023 with pockets!

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Horsewomen & archery women at the #WorldNomadGames2018 photos by Eleanor Moseman #ModernAmazons

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World #Nomad Games #Kyrgyzstan #ModernAmazons #Amazons #Archers

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gold guillotine earrings ca 1793 note liberty cap at top and rolling crowned head at bottom

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Roman crocodile armor, Roman Egypt, 3rd century AD British Museum

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photos by M. Zorigt, Mongolian horseback archer Angarag, 5, an athlete in ARULAD Equestrian Archery Club (Mongolian National Equestrian Archery Assoc.) in Batnorov soum, Khentii province, Mongolia. #ModernAmazons Little Amazon

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Ancient Athenians agreed that carrying weapons of war in public was a sign of an uncivilized fearful society Democracies frowned on #OpenCarry Anyone who carried weapons in the city would be mocked

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more pix of Little Amazon Angarag, age 5, horseback archer of Mongolia, photos byM. Zorigt, from Boldbaatar Mongolia

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Little Amazon photo from Boldbatar Mongolia

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blueberry muffins & tiny #dogs

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Little Amazon, Angarag, age 5, competing in Mongolia, 2021 Trying to find photographer's name

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Trojan woman defending herself during the sack of Troy Naples Archaeological Museum

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Guillotine Earrings, Paris 1793

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Amazing Parthenon sculptures brought to life! by Eugenio Recuenco, Spanish fashion photographer

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Classical column dress by Dior, 1992

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Mummy Passport! Pharaoh Ramses II’s passport issued 1976 for passage to France 3,000 years after his death #Egypt required anyone leaving the country, living or dead, to have proper papers. Occupation: “King (deceased)”

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ridiculous theory--they could look at each other

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One interesting theory about why the Venus Palaeolithic statues have those shapes, with large breasts and lack of feet and faces, is that were made by women looking at their own bodies from their point of view. Such women would not have had access to mirrors to maintain accurate

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#AcrobaticArchery ID'd! Aida Akmatova on left Chynara Madinkulova on right #WorldNomadGames #Amazons of #Kyrgyzstan

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Real #ModernAmazons at #WorldNomadGames2018

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only ancient Greek image of a Mediterranean monk seal, ca 530 BC, upper left of sea monster (likely modeled on an oarfish

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Prometheus making a man from scratch ancient Etruscan gem #GodsandRobots

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fossils embedded in arrowheads and tools #FossilFriday

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Mongolia -- Reindeer Maiden photo by Hamid Sardar-Afkhami

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purple owl gummie fluorite, 4th century BC

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@apmassaro3 Czechoslovakian uprising 1968 no need to wrack your brain the examples are myriad

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California bans private prisons – including Ice detention centers

California bans private prisons – including Ice detention centers

Bill removes profit motive from incarceration and marks latest clash in state’s battle with Trump over treatment of immigrants

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skeletons are rare in ancient Greek art, but here is Prometheus making the 1st human starting from scratch! #HappyHalloween2020 #GodsandRobots

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ancient Roman mosaic Cologne 3rd century AD. Römisch-Germanisches Museum

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thanks to Patrick Lin for this item

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more Portraits of Amazons

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@dinodadreviews @NatSciChannel "Bones of the Ancients" by David Yorke, Lakota men finding a T. rex fossil in Dakota Territory #FossilFriday

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@LeftistGodzilla "Expeller of evil" (mušēṣu lemnūti); "Catcher of the enemy" (kāšid ayyāb); "Don't think, bite!" (ē tamtallik epuš pāka); "Biter of his foe!" (munaššiku gārîšu); and "Loud is his bark!" (dan rigiššu)

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Opal #dinosaur carving

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Dancing Greek Cats by Beidi (Betty) Guo

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photos from "Warrior Women" #AncientAmazons " TV documentary episode @SmithsonianChan filmed in Kazakhstan based on my book #TheAmazons

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to lick or not to lick #science

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my Bengal cat Enkidu is 6 yrs old today

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in 1725, African slaves at Stono Plantation were the first to correctly recognize fossil mammoth molars as elephant teeth, thereby advancing European understanding of North American fossils #FossilFriday

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highly recommended!

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Athena in a gossamer gown with her little owl

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Forest in a rain drop

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some ancient Greek names for doggos, translated: Blossom, Keeper, Stubborn, Yelp, Tracker, Riot, Pell-Mell, Plucky, Crafty, Swift, and Dagger

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fantastic ancient grasshopper carved on gem 2,500 years ago 5th century BC, Greek

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Ancient Greeks loved their dogs

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Opalized dinosaur bone #FossilFriday

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#ancient #tools Etruscan bronze hook for gathering sea sponges

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Thucydides 1.5-6: only in less civilized parts of Greece would Greeks still carry weapons. Xenophon “On Sparta”: Spartans left their weapons at home when going about their daily business; weapons were reserved for military campaigns.

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#Medieval Women with weapons and armor by Thomas de Saluces ca 1404

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Original seal on King Tut's tomb unbroken for 3,245 years, photo 1922 #egyptology http://t.co/tFqGicGkhy

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gorgeous iridescent slices of #fossil #dinoaur bones from #Australia

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Prometheus making the first human from the inside out--beginning with the framework, a skeleton #GodsandRobots Ancient Etruscan carnelian gem in modern setting

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@pleasedontatme @jfkeehan cartoon by Mr Fish in Spy magazine 1992, has been on my refrigerator since it came out

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African warriors on ancient Greek perfume jars

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Lakota discovery of mammoth fossils by ZS Liang 2019 #FossilFriday

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#donkey ancient Greek drinking cups

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Did you know female Centaurs were a Thing for the ancient Romans? ancient mosaic and silver cup

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#AncientAmazon mother teaching daughter how to make snake venom arrows still from @SmithsonianChan "Warrior Women" documentary filmed in Kazakhstan, based on my research in #TheAmazons & #GreekFirePoisonArrows

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Fierce little Owl as a Hoplite warrior, Ancient Greek vase #owl was symbol of Athena, goddess of war-strategy

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Have you ever seen a baby Chimera?

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#Barbie #Mummy Hey Kids let's mummify Barbie!

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Little boy with pet bird, ancient Greek vase painting

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RIP Jeannine Davis-Kimball, generous scholar and archaeologist who discovered ancient graves of armed women in Kazakhstan

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The woman who found the bones of women warriors from 2500 years ago and proved that indeed "Amazons" did exist-- Jeannine Davis-Kimball, archaeologist who uncovered the proof that the Amazon "myth" was based in fact. #warriorwomen #amazons @amayor

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Opalized fossil #Plesiosaur vertebrae from Cretaceous #Australia #FossilFriday

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#ancientgreek penis flask, 5th century BC Whose? What did it hold? Athlete? Oil?

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@nytimesbooks The ancient Greeks invented science fiction, with tales of the bronze robot Talos, the artificial fembot Pandora, and Odysseus' voyage on a ship navigated by thought alone.

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Mythic skeletons

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Exquisite detail! Man giving his #dog a treat ancient gem 3rd century BC gold & carnelian Getty Museum

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forbidden frog gummy carnelian amulet, 1540-1296 BC, Egypt

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@ThePencilPimp huntresses on horseback, ancient and modern gold ring 450 BC; monument Tuva Republic

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The Diver--beautiful ancient Roman fresco, so modern!

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@SarahTaber_bww I am not aware of any discovery of a mastodon skull in colonial Virginia, but mammoth molars were discovered in South Carolina & Virginia to the puzzlement of white slave owners but immediately & accurately recognized by African slaves as belonging to an elephant.

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Death of a Cyborg (after Bouguereau) Eugenia Burova

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motorcycle chariot races, 19202-40s

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@OptimoPrincipi All of these ancient Roman discoveries and interpretations of dinosaur and large extinct mammal #Fossils are discussed and documented in my book #FirstFossilHunters

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Enkidu my Bengal Cat likes high places

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#AcrobaticArchery Video Kyrgyz women Aida & Chynara shooting arrows w feet #WorldNomadGames

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@CalltoActivism CNN makes the difference quite clear

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@Laelaps that's why I like the way Yellowstone National Park reports the incidents: "As the bison walked near a boardwalk at Black Sand Basin, the female approached it. Consequently, the bison gored the woman and tossed her 10 feet into the air." *Consequently*

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One of only two known pictures of fossil skulls in ancient Greek vase painting #FossilFriday

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my beautiful #Bengal Cat Enkidu

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Breathtaking ancient silver vase from Thrace, tattooed women attacking Orpheus with axe #AncientGreece #tattoo #AncientAmazons

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Opalized ammonite & snail #fossil #FossilFriday

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A fine Bactrian camel with handsome Persian rider Ancient Greek vase painting about 40 yrs after the Persian Wars

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thx charles turner

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beautiful gazelles and their shadows in Namibia! Who took this photo?

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dinosaur feathers in amber #FossilFriday

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feathered tail of a small dinosaur preserved in amber, discovered by paleontologist Lida Xing in Myanmar amber market

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Winter #Gargoyle

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#SnakeIsland of Black Sea, in antiquity Leuke 'White Isle' or Island of Achilles, who was said to be buried with Patroclus there by his mother Thetis. Sailors reported Snake Island haunted by ghosts of Achilles, Patroclus & Helen. Greek temple & inscriptions found on island.

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President Zelenskyy confirms that all Ukrainian defenders on Snake Island were killed by Russia. They refused to surrender and were killed to the man. Brave brave boys

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Ancient Greeks loved to imagine #AncientAmazons fighting #Griffins Exciting scenes of their battles on the steppes