Illegitimate Scholar🧭's Threads

Apr 15 • 10 tweets • 3 min read

Seven NEW Archaeology Discoveries of 2024

Stuff just keeps getting older

Thread 🧵, my favorite one from the Amazon at the end (Percy Fawcett & Francisco de Orellana vindicated)

But first, a Peruvian throneroom

Before the Incas the Moche thrived in Peru.

Archaeologists believe the throneroom belonged to a female ruler, ~700 AD

Also in Peru, an old find was expanded...

Apr 12 • 9 tweets • 3 min read

All humans outside of Sub-Saharan Africa descend from one group - Until Now

These mummies are as distant from Sub-Saharan Africans as they are from all other humans

Who they ARE related to, and why it's confusing - Thread 🧵

They have some relation to Berber populations - from later mixing

Majority of their DNA is from a split from SSAs - same time as other non-SSAs

They are as distant from SSAs and more distance from Europeans than Europeans are from New Guineans

Apr 4 • 13 tweets • 4 min read

DOGE has made cuts to Federal Humanities Grants

Many articles from mainstream news written about it, but few explain what those grants are

So in this thread 🧵I show WHAT grants are being cut (they're exactly what you think)

First, just share the FIRST page.

From the gov website from the National Endowment from the Humanities, alphabetical by state (bookmark this thread for when someone brings up the cutting off grants)

All four are concentrated on Diversity....

Apr 3 • 22 tweets • 7 min read

A "US" tourist was just arrested for going to North Sentintel Island

....To give them a can of coke & a coconut

So a thread 🧵of the history of contact on this remote "uncontacted" island starting in 1771

And why the last guy who went called it "Satan's Last Stronghold"

The first siting was by the EIC Ship, Diligent, as she sailed the wider Andaman Islands

Captain John Ritchie noted only fire he saw on the shore & continued sailing

Nearly 100 years later, the first foreigners stepped foot on the island, under precarious circumstances

Apr 3 • 9 tweets • 4 min read

A century Before Columbus, a fleet of 300 ships sailed from China

30 years & 7 voyages, they visited Africa, Asia, India, & the Middle East

Only decades after the Chinese fleet was burned or left to rot. The records destroyed. Why?

Thread 🧵🧭

Unlike Columbus, the Eunuch Admiral Zheng did not seek discovery, Gold, or Conquest

He was tasked with projecting Chinese Maritime Power and engaging in diplomacy/trade with tributaries & Distant Rulers

30,000 sailors, diplomats, officials, & soldiers sailed with him

Apr 3 • 7 tweets • 2 min read

486 American Indians slaughtered. Their village burned.

But the year is ~1325 AD. Long before Europeans came.

What happened, and what it tells us about life before contact in North America - thread🧵

Even today, some people assert that Europeans brought the concept of total war, not true

The site of the massacre was found in the 1950s, reported on in 1978 by the SD Archaeological Society

The Famous Wounded Knee, by comparison, was *only 150-300 people

Apr 2 • 16 tweets • 5 min read

Anthropology is now Political Activism

PhD Anthrpologists now attack ideas like GENDER DIVISION IN HUMANS

If they supported the idea, it would be fine

But they are wrong. I explain specifically why in this thread 🧵

They begin by attacking the long-standing theory

Firstly, I reject the idea that males are "superior" to females

Both Hunting and Gathering are integral for subsistence in early cultures

Apr 2 • 8 tweets • 3 min read

Public school taught me that the Crusades were Evil

Christians killing innocents for religion with inhumane bloodlust

But learning beyond what I was taught in school made me rethink this entirely

Thread on why the Crusades were justified🧵

The most basic information changes the entire situation

Before the Islamic Expansion starting in the 7th c. the Holy Land was full of Christians and other religions

The Crusades were not a conquest but a RE-conquest

This map is not perfect, but a good representation

Apr 2 • 12 tweets • 6 min read

For over 𝟰𝟴𝟬 𝘆𝗲𝗮𝗿𝘀, an Amazonian civilization was a pseudoscientific myth

Those who believed in it were mocked

De Orellana discovered it in 𝟭𝟱𝟰𝟮. Proven in 2024

The Discovery & what it means | Thread 🧵

This Recent Discovery of a large Civilization in the Amazon is possible because of the use of GPR & LiDAR

This newer technology allows for discovery of Archaeological sites formerly covered by jungle brush

the Archaeological features outline where buildings once were

Apr 2 • 9 tweets • 4 min read

There is still more to be found in our World

The SECOND Largest Mayan city known to exist was discovered just last year

Just a few miles from a highway in Mexico

Thread 🧵 on the Discovery of the lost city of Valeriana

The city was found w/ LiDAR (a few years ago but just published on)

Surveyed without anyone physically going, an archaeologist looked through NASA ecological data

But it's only 15 miles from a major road - why was it not discovered? What else could be left to discover?

Feb 8 • 14 tweets • 5 min read

The Most Powerful Pirate Lord in History was a Chinese Woman

Born a Prostitute, she rose to command 80,000 Pirates

& Forced the Qing Empire to Negotiate

🧵thread

Born Shi Yang, ~1775 in Canton, China. She would become Ching Shih

As a poor woman from a poor area she became a prostitute on a floating brothel, serving pirates coming to port (example pic)

But she provided more than services of the flesh

Feb 3 • 18 tweets • 7 min read

The Alamo, Thermopylae, Rorke's Drift, Custer

Stories of Last Stands are told for Millenia, but you haven't heard of this one

When the "Vikings of North America" fell to the Russians

Thread 🧵

The Tlingit & Haida were feared for hundreds of miles

They wrote wooden armor & raided the coasts for slaves

Instilling fear in all people they came in contact with. But this created false confidence

Jan 31 • 16 tweets • 5 min read

I thought the Title of this article was strange. Vague. Irrelevant. Rude.

In these situations, I look at the author, and learn about them

So here's a thread 🧵 on Jane Herz, US Femail Reporter (yes really), her "reporting"

And why you should not care what she says

Jane Herz is no longer credited with the work

I assume based on backlash. But this was already archived.

Before I get into this article, her other "reporting" & why her attacking @nataliegwinters is disgusting

Jane's High School cost $65,540/year

Jan 29 • 14 tweets • 5 min read

The United States was founded as a CHRISTIAN Nation

Our Founding Fathers said it themselves, it's been hidden from you

Quotes that prove it (bookmark this to reference) Thread 🧵

“Our constitution was made only for a moral and religious people.

It is wholly inadequate to the government of any other”

-John Adams

Jan 25 • 15 tweets • 6 min read

A century Before Columbus, a fleet of 300 ships sailed from China

30 years & 7 voyages, they visited Africa, Asia, India, & the Middle East

But then the fleet was burned or left to rot. The Records destroyed. Why?

Thread 🧵🧭

Unlike Columbus, the Eunuch Admiral Zheng did not seek discovery, Gold, or Conquest

He was tasked with projecting Chinese Maritime Power & engaging in diplomacy/trade with tributaries & Distant Rulers

30,000 sailors, diplomats, officials, & soldiers sailed under his command

Jan 24 • 13 tweets • 1 min read

How much do you know about the United States... before it was the United States

10 Question Quiz on Colonial American History

1. Which of these Colonies Was Established First? Key at the End

2. What Native Americans were present at the pre-Independence Albany Conference that led to the eventual Government

Jan 24 • 4 tweets • 1 min read

Flint Dibble wrote a thread attacking Graham Hancock & Ancient Apocalypse Season 1

It is filled with innacurate statements, misdirections, and lies

Thread below🧵 about what Dibble got wrong -glaringly- AND a link to the videos I did on it

The Thread:

https://x.com/ill_Scholar/status/1881866184469209111

Jan 23 • 7 tweets • 2 min read

486 American Indians in a mass grave.

But the year is ~1325. Pre-European.

What happened, and what it tells us about life before contact in North America - thread🧵

Jan 22 • 27 tweets • 11 min read

Nov 2022, Flint Dibble wrote a thread that would lead to him going on Joe Rogan

The thread was about Graham Hancock's Ancient Apocalypse Season 1

It is filled with innacurate statements, misdirections, and lies

Thread 🧵

Issues start almost immediately

The first lines of Ancient Apocalypse are NOT declaring an all out assault on archaeology, but about the OPPOSITE.

They are about ACADEMIA'S attacks on HIM (video)

Jan 19 • 13 tweets • 2 min read

This is a practice test for the US Citizenship test

Done in a thread 🧵 of polls for X

You need 60% (6/10) to pass. Do you know enough to pass the test?

1. Where is the Statue of Liberty? The real test is oral, not multiple choice, but this gives you an idea

Key at the End

2. What stops one branch of government from becoming too powerful?

Jan 14 • 12 tweets • 4 min read

This man died to protect 2nd century Roman artifacts (pictured)

ISIS tortured him for a month, he refused to disclose the location of the artifacts. For that he was beheaded.

a Syrian Archaeologist named Khaled Al-Asaad

A thread 🧵 of his life & work

For 4 Decades starting in 1963, Khaled Al-Assad was the Head of Antiquities in Palmyra

He was a dedicated steward of the Levant City that was conquered by Rome in the 1st c AD

His work saw Palmyra designated as a UNESCO World Heritage Site in 1980

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