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The ancient bronze doors of St. John Lateran These massive doors — nearly 2,000 years old — once guarded the Curia Julia, the Roman Senate House in the Forum. Emperors like Domitian oversaw them; Julius Caesar himself may have walked through. Moved here in 1660 by Pope Alexander VII,...

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There's something in most British villages older than the church. Older than the English language. You've walked past it a thousand times. And nobody told you what it was. 🌳 The yew tree. Some are 2,000 years old. Some are closer to 5,000. The Fortingall Yew in Scotland. One of the oldest living things in Europe. They were sacred before Christianity arrived. When the new religion came, they didn't cut the trees down. They built the churches next to them. The church came to the tree. Not the other way around. Some are hollow. The heartwood rots away. But the tree keeps growing from the outside. A tree can be hollow for centuries and still be alive. Yew wood made the English longbow. Agincourt. Crécy. The weapon that changed European warfare. The wood came from churchyards. Yew is poisonous. Every part of it. Livestock can't go near it. That's why they survived in churchyards when they were cut down everywhere else. The wall saved them. The Ankerwycke Yew. Near Runnymede. Two and a half thousand years old. Magna Carta may have been sealed beneath it. The tree was already a thousand years old when that happened. You can touch them. They're not behind glass. They're in your village. Walk up to one on Sunday morning. Put your hand on the bark. That tree was alive before Julius Caesar crossed the Channel. And it's still growing. Still standing in the same churchyard. Still alive. Still yours. Sources and more available at Be part of us. Be Proud Of Us. 🇬🇧

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🇬🇧 A British Bronze Age family sat down to dinner. Their house caught fire and fell into the marsh. Three thousand years on, their porridge is still in its bowl. Cambridgeshire. The Fenland. Around 1,000 BC, a British family had built a village on wooden stilts above the marsh. Nine round houses linked by a timber walkway. One evening they sat down to eat. 🔥 The thatch caught. The fire moved fast. They grabbed what they could and ran. Their footprints sank into the mud below the platform. The houses collapsed into the marsh. And the marsh held everything where it fell. Three thousand years later, Cambridge archaeologists drained the silt. The village rose back up. The bowl of porridge was still on the table, the wooden spoon still in it. The bread was still in the oven. The wheels were still in the shed. The dog was still by the fire. 🛞 Wheels of solid oak. Glass beads worked by hand. Finely woven cloth. Bronze axes and spears and sickles. Tools any modern carpenter would recognise. Britain's Bronze Age Pompeii. Excavated by the Cambridge Archaeological Unit in 2015 and 2016. A British family lived here. They were not primitive. They were us. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ British history is what we have all achieved on these islands. We tell the parts that get left out. We are funded by people who think it matters. Will you help us on our journey? 👇🙏 👉 👈 Be part of us. ☝️🇬🇧 Be Proud Of Us. 🙏🇬🇧

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🇬🇧 Caesar called them barbarians. They had already made THIS. 🛡️ In 1857, dredgers clearing the Thames near Chelsea Bridge pulled something from the silt 🌊 They washed it clean. A bronze shield. 27 red glass studs. Worked by hand 🛡️ The dredger had never seen anything like it. This is the story of the Battersea Shield 🇬🇧 It was sent to the British Museum 🏛️ The curators dated it to the late Iron Age. 2,000 years old. Older than England. Older than Rome's arrival here. Who made it? Britons did. At a workbench in a roundhouse, by firelight 🔥 They beat the bronze. They set the red glass. It took months. But this shield was not for battle ⚔️ The bronze was too thin to stop a blade. It was made to be given. Their rivers were sacred. At dawn 🌅 they raised the shield. And gave it to the Thames 🌊 It sank. The Romans wrote them down ✍️ Julius Caesar 📜 wrote that the barbaric Britons painted themselves blue. But this shield was already centuries old when he wrote that. Its makers knew how to set red glass into bronze. 2,000 years passed. Rome came. And went. Saxons came. Normans came. England rose. Britain rose. The shield stayed where it was. Until 1857. Now it hangs in the British Museum 🏛️ It is one of many. Stone by stone. Shield by shield 🛡️ Made by Britons. Inherited by the British 🇬🇧 Will you help us spread our history to those who need to hear? 👇🙏 👉 👈 Be part of us. ☝️🇬🇧 Be Proud Of Us. 🙏🇬🇧

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🏛️ Beneath the Roman Forum lies one of Christianity’s most powerful hidden treasures: the Mamertine Prison. Over 2,600 years old, this is Rome’s oldest prison. Built in the 7th century BC (around 640–616 BC) by King Ancus Marcius as a cistern, it was later turned into a grim holding cell for Rome’s most dangerous enemies awaiting execution. According to ancient Christian tradition, Saints Peter and Paul were both imprisoned here before their martyrdom under Emperor Nero (c. 64–68 AD). Why here? It was the main state prison for high-profile threats to Roman power. The apostles’ “crime”? Refusing to worship the Emperor as a god. Legend tells that while chained in the damp lower dungeon (the Tullianum), St. Peter miraculously caused a spring of water to flow so he could baptize fellow prisoners and even their guards. Tradition holds that St. Paul wrote his final epistle, 2 Timothy, from this very prison during his second Roman imprisonment. Other letters may have been composed or finalized here or nearby. From this sacred spot, Peter was led to his upside-down crucifixion on Vatican Hill, and Paul to his beheading outside the city. For more than 1,300 years, pilgrims have descended these steps to pray where the two great Apostles of Christ spent their final days. It remains a place of profound reflection on faith, suffering, and ultimate triumph. A powerful reminder that light can shine even in the darkest places. My video, taken for you. The upper chamber is the Carcer (short holding area) and the lower chamber is the Tullianum, where St Peter and Paul would have been held.

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2,300 years ago, a Greek astronomer sailed to the edge of the known world 🇬🇧 His name was Pytheas. He sailed from Marseille through the Strait of Gibraltar and turned north. He was looking for the source of something the entire ancient world depended on. Tin. Without tin, you can't make bronze. Without bronze, there's no Bronze Age. No weapons. No tools. No armour. And the richest source of tin in the ancient world? Cornwall. For over a thousand years before Pytheas arrived, Cornish tin had been reaching Egypt, Turkey, and Greece. Tin ingots chemically matched to Cornish earth have been found in ancient tombs across the Mediterranean. Britain was connected to the ancient world 1,000 years before Rome set foot here. Pytheas visited the mines. He described a tidal island where tin was loaded onto ships at low tide. Most historians believe that island is St Michael's Mount. Still there. Still beautiful. But here's what matters most. Pytheas didn't find savages. He found a civilisation. Hospitable people. Grain farmers. Beer brewers. Kings with trade networks spanning the known world. He wrote the first ever description of Britain and its people. His book "On the Ocean" has been lost for 2,000 years, but fragments quoted by later writers tell us something extraordinary. Britain wasn't at the edge of the world. It was at the centre of it. Every bronze sword in Greece. Every bronze shield in Egypt. Cornish tin inside every one. 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿🏳️🏴 They taught you Greece was the cradle of civilisation. They didn't mention who supplied the metal. You can walk that causeway today. The same path they carried tin across two thousand years ago. And nobody's teaching it. We are 👇 👉 Be proud of us. Be proud of us. 🇬🇧

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The Vespasianus Titus Tunnel is a 2,000-year-old engineering marvel – a massive tunnel dug through a mountain that was built to divert floodwaters threatening the harbor near the ancient city of Seleuceia Pieria in what is now Türkiye. According to UNESCO; it is one of the most magnificent remains of the Roman period because of its size, well-preserved authenticity, and architectural and engineering features. Titus Tunnel was neither built, nor completed by the Emperor Titus. The construction of this tunnel, began during reign of Vespasianus, the father of Titus, during second half of 1st Century AD. Although work continued during the reign of Titus (79-81 AD), it was only completed during the reign of Antonius Pius in the 2nd Century AD. These dates are known due to several rock-carved inscriptions found in the tunnel. At first tunnel section, the names Vespasianus and Titus can be found. This inscription reads ‘Divus Vespasianus et Divus Titus F.C.’ (‘Divine Vespasianus and Divine Titus caused it to be made’). Thus, it may be possible that the tunnel was jointly built by the two emperors. Another inscription in the downstream channel bears the name Antoninus Pius, indicating that construction was completed during the reign of this emperor. Titus Tunnel is located in modern day Samandag-Cevlik, Turkey. During Roman era, Samandag-Cevlik was known as Seleucia Pieria (Seleucia by the Sea). This ancient city was one of the four cities in the Syrian tetrapolis, the other three being Antioch by the Orontes, Apamea and Laodicea in Syria. Seleucia Pieria was once an important Roman port city, in which exotic goods from the East were exported to Rome. Perhaps the port’s most well-known ‘exports’ were St. Paul and St. Barnabas, as they were recorded to have sailed from this port on their first missionary journeys. This city, however, had a major problem, as it was constantly threatened by floodwater that came from the nearby mountains. As these waters from mountains carried silt and mud as they descended, harbor was inevitably silted up and became inoperative. Although canals were ordered to be built by previous emperors, they were to no avail, as the floods continued. In order to solve this problem once and for all, Vespasian decided to build a tunnel by digging through the mountain to divert the floodwaters. This diversion system was built on the principle of closing the front of the stream bed with a deflection cover and transferring the waters through an artificial canal and tunnel. Titus Tunnel was designed by engineers of Tenth legion Fratensis and built by Roman legionaries, sailors, and prisoners. Flavius Josephus, a Jewish historian, wrote that one of the canals in the region was built by Jewish slaves captured during the Jewish War (66-73 AD). Unsurprisingly, some have identified that canal with the Titus Tunnel. When completed, the Titus Tunnel spanned a distance of 1.4 km (0.86 mi). As the whole tunnel was carved through solid rock, this was a remarkable feat of Roman engineering, especially when one considers the relatively short amount of time required for its completion. Furthermore, this man-made marvel has survived until today without much damage. Moreover, Titus Tunnel is a testimony to Roman ingenuity in solving the challenges faced by its cities and is among the great constructions of the Roman world. In 2014, the Titus Tunnel was submitted to UNESCO, for the Tentative List of its World Heritage Sites. One of the many positive effects of this achievement is that people would be aware that the architectural achievements of ancient Rome are not limited to grand, imposing monuments, such as Colosseum and the triumphal arches of various emperors. Rather, some of the most significant Roman works can be found in its civic engineering, which provided vital infrastructure in the form of tunnels, cisterns, flood control, and road works. 🎥© arkeolojievreni (IG) #archaeohistories

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