Ancient History Chronicler

The very fact that they keep launching new ‘quests for the historical Jesus’ is itself proof that they shouldn’t. He’s endlessly elusive for one reason only: The early Christians showed no such interest. On the contrary — they fled from history, feverishly replacing whatever may have happened with sacred legend and cultic mythography. To seek ‘the real Jesus’ is to work directly against the very nature of the sources the early Christians left behind.

Archaeologists have discovered a royal tomb at the Jabal Anubis necropolis in Abydos in Egypt. The tomb belonged to a member of the enigmatic "Abydos Dynasty" (c. 1700-1600 BCE) in the Second Intermediate Period, but the name of its owner is not yet known. https://buff.ly/dP1tgqR

Use your mind, or you'll lose the right to use it. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GiCDMUME2ik

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Coming soon: our investigation of the mountain tomb of Emperor Gaozong of Tang and empress Wu Zetian. #ancientchina #ancienthistory

Now, if it's the day we're discussing Descartes' first and second meditation, I'd accept it. But if we're doing the fifth and the sixth, nah. . . they just didn't do the reading