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In 1901, divers pulled a lump of corroded bronze out of a two thousand year old shipwreck. It took the next century to understand what it was, and the answer broke the timeline of human history. It's called the Antikythera Mechanism, and it is the oldest known computer on earth. It was built by the ancient Greeks, around 100 BC, and it should not exist. Nothing else of its sophistication would appear anywhere in the world for more than a thousand years after it... It was found by sponge divers off the Greek island of Antikythera, in the wreck of a trading ship that had sunk in the first century BC, surrounded by bronze statues and pottery. The corroded fragments looked like nothing at first, and sat largely ignored in a museum in Athens. Only over the following decades, and especially with modern X-ray and CT scanning in our own century, did researchers finally see inside it. What they found was a machine. Behind its bronze face was a system of at least thirty interlocking precision gears, cut and arranged with a sophistication that would not be matched until the geared astronomical clocks of medieval Europe, well over a thousand years later. It was, in the words of the team that studied it, a mechanical computer that worked by turning astronomical theory into bronze... And it did extraordinary things. You turned a hand crank on the side, and the mechanism calculated the positions of the sun, the moon, and the five planets the Greeks knew. It tracked the phases of the moon. It predicted solar and lunar eclipses years in advance. It even displayed the four-year cycle of the ancient Olympic Games. A person standing in the ancient world could set this device to a date and watch the heavens be calculated in front of them, by gears, by hand. Roughly a third of the original survives, in 82 corroded fragments. We still do not know who designed it, or how a civilization without anything resembling industrial machinery achieved this level of precision engineering. What is certain is that it was not a one-off accident. A device this refined implies a tradition behind it, generations of knowledge and earlier attempts that have been lost completely. The Antikythera Mechanism is proof of how much the ancient world knew, and how much of what human beings have achieved has simply vanished without a trace, leaving us to stumble on a single piece of it at the bottom of the sea...

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The presence of the Zionist state on the Temple Mount and its interference with people is unacceptable. It is a persecution committed against Muslims in Masjid al-Aqsa. It is unacceptable for Zionists to pretend to be Jews and interfere with Muslims on the Temple Mount, while Jews are forbidden from going there. What the Zionists do is against the Torah and the Jewish religion. They do whatever they want in all Palestine and in Jerusalem. It is a great sin for any believing Jew to climb the Temple Mount, that is, the Masjid al-Aqsa. In our religion, Judaism, it is strictly forbidden for Jews to go to the temple mountain. JEWS can never be there and pray. Zionists and thief settlers are irreligious people who defy the Torah and break into the temple mountain by appearing to be Jews.

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The presence of the Zionist state on the Temple Mount and its interference with people is unacceptable. It is a persecution committed against Muslims in Masjid al-Aqsa. It is unacceptable for Zionists to pretend to be Jews and interfere with Muslims on the Temple Mount, while Jews are forbidden from going there. What the Zionists do is against the Torah and the Jewish religion. They do whatever they want in all Palestine and in Jerusalem. It is a great sin for any believing Jew to climb the Temple Mount, that is, the Masjid al-Aqsa. In our religion, Judaism, it is strictly forbidden for Jews to go to the temple mountain. JEWS can never be there and pray. Zionists and thief settlers are irreligious people who defy the Torah and break into the temple mountain by appearing to be Jews.
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The presence of the Zionist state on the Temple Mount and its interference with people is unacceptable. It is a persecution committed against Muslims in Masjid al-Aqsa. It is unacceptable for Zionists to pretend to be Jews and interfere with Muslims on the Temple Mount, while Jews are forbidden from going there. What the Zionists do is against the Torah and the Jewish religion. They do whatever they want in all Palestine and in Jerusalem. It is a great sin for any believing Jew to climb the Temple Mount, that is, the Masjid al-Aqsa. In our religion, Judaism, it is strictly forbidden for Jews to go to the temple mountain. JEWS can never be there and pray. Zionists and thief settlers are irreligious people who defy the Torah and break into the temple mountain by appearing to be Jews.

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Temple of Hathor is one of the most well-preserved temples in all of Egypt. There are three temples to view in the complex: the birthing temple at the front, the temple of Isis behind the main temple, and the main temple dedicated to Hathor. There is also a sacred pool. The colors seen throughout the temples are original, and amazingly vibrant considering the inside was once covered in soot from Bedouins and other desert peoples seeking asylum. They would use the temples as shelter, lighting fires for cooking and warmth. Since the temple complex used to be covered halfway in desert sand, it was easy for the soot to accumulate at the top. To show the amount of soot that had to be cleaned, archaeologists chose strips of ceiling in each temple to leave covered in soot as a comparison. The clearing of soot and all the sand burying the temples was tedious work that took years to complete. The ceiling is a symbolic representation of the heavens, featuring the waxing and waning of the moon as it travels across the heavens in the barque of Re. Jackals and birds accompany Re’s barque. This scene is from the east side of the temple and features snakes and various gods including, the falcon god Horus, the ibis headed god Thoth, Hathor and Sekhmet (also Sachmet, Sakmet, Sakhet, Sekmet, Sakhmet, Sekhet, Sachmis), the lion goddess of war and destruction. Dedicated to Hathor, goddess of love, beauty, music and motherhood, the main temple dates from the Graeco-Roman era although a temple stood on the site during the Old Kingdom. Temple complex displays influences from Egyptian, Greek, and Roman rulers. There was also a Coptic Christian church on the premises near the birthing temple at one point. Main temple was built by Ptolemy XII and nearly completed by Queen Cleopatra VII, around 54-20 BC. There is evidence of temples and other structures that date back all the way to 2500 BC. Hathor is the Egyptian sky goddess of sexual love, fertility, music, and dancing. It is also said she is the goddess of birth and motherhood. She is often depicted as the counterpart of Horus. In fact, Hathor translates to “House of Horus.” Inside the underground crypt, on the same relief wall as the famed Dendera light bulb (just to the right of it) is the most detailed depiction of Horus discovered to date. Getting to the crypt requires you to crawl on your hands and knees for a stint, but entrance requires going down a steep staircase. Temple is a wondrous marvel to explore. Each of the rooms is as intricately decorated as the Great Vestibule, the front room at the main entrance fronted by 24 columns. The ceiling in the Great Vestibule is a tribute to Nut (Newt), Goddess of the Sky. Beyond are antechambers with crypts, chapel rooms, and a sanctuary. There is a corridor on each side of second antechamber. Corridor to climb to the top of the temple is a spiral, just as a bird would ascend, while the corridor to leave the roof is a straight path down, just as a bird would dive. This is a tribute to Horus. At the top of the structure, there is a small temple that was used for rituals to greet the rising sun, as well as another antechamber, called the Chapel of Osiris. Inside this chapel, one of the rooms holds a unique ceiling relief, called Dendera Zodiac. It is considered the only complete “map” of the ancient Egyptian sky. The one at Hathor Temple is a replica, however. The real Dendera Zodiac is on display at the Louvre in Paris, France. The birthing temple is also intricately decorated, and reliefs on the side depict the births of gods and Egyptian pharaohs. It is positioned at the front of the complex, across from a display of former statues and partial column pieces found during excavation. Temple of the Goddess Isis is situated behind the main temple near the sacred pool. It is small and not as decorative, but still worth a look. 🎥© nofret_egypt_ (IG) #archaeohistories

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