Uruanna
@Uruanna@lemmy.world
- Comment on Scientists May Have Finally Solved the Mystery of the Legendary Giant’s Causeway 1 day ago:
Other way around, the Scot / Benandonner is the one who tore up the causeway when Fionn tricked him.
- Comment on Smh, kids today, thinking new media is good 4 days ago:
It remained in use into the first century BCE, and also we found a giant trilingual inscription at Mt. Behistun. We did misread Sumerian as Akkadian for a while before we figured out it was a whole other language.
- Comment on Roman education program working as intended 4 days ago:
Not Celts.
- Comment on Roman education program working as intended 4 days ago:
The image of the winged helmet comes from 19th c. archaeology mistakes, and the fact that we later figured out that the Celts did have crests and that some of those had wings (with a whole bird, which is what Roman descriptions talk about) does not validate that misinterpretation. It’s cherrypicking. Sticking with the wings specifically in the form that came from that misinterpretation, and not the actual ceremonial helmets that we found later, is still spreading the myth. The image that someone else posted up there looks nothing like the meme that is just the classic Asterix / German opera depiction.
I think it’s a farther cry to claim that the Celts had “winged helmets” when what they had was a whole ass turkey pigeon up there.
- Comment on Roman education program working as intended 4 days ago:
Decoratively and ceremonially, not in combat.
- Comment on Roman education program working as intended 4 days ago:
Helmets with wings never existed beside some statues here and there, it’s a myth that celts had that. 19th c. archaeologists found helmets with the cheek protections flattened and turned up, and thought they were wings. They had the same Roman styled helmets. Except Arminius here who clearly couldn’t follow instructions.
- Comment on Roman education program working as intended 4 days ago:
I’m not sure the tutorial worked, he’s wearing the cheek protection on the top.
- Comment on Why is there a lack of dinosaur video games? 2 weeks ago:
When Horizon Zero Dawn was first revealed, it played really hard on that Turok appeal of hunting giant “dinosaurs” with a bow, even if they were metal.