Image 1 — Who were the Hurrians? The people forgotten between Mesopotamia and Anatolia!
Image 2 — Who were the Hurrians? The people forgotten between Mesopotamia and Anatolia!
Image 3 — Who were the Hurrians? The people forgotten between Mesopotamia and Anatolia!
Image 4 — Who were the Hurrians? The people forgotten between Mesopotamia and Anatolia!

Who were the Hurrians? The people forgotten between Mesopotamia and Anatolia!

u/Historydom — 18 hours ago
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The First Photos of Constantinople, 1843

1843 the French photographerJoseph-Philibert Girault de Prangey was the first person to photograph the city. Remarkably, his photographs were only discovered in the 1920s in a storeroom of his estate and then only became known eighty years later.

u/HistoricalCarsFan — 13 hours ago

Ruins of Pinara, ancient Lycian city, Lycia, Turkey, 5th century B.C.

The city surrendered to Alexander the Great in 334 B.C. After Alexander’s death, the city fell to the kingdom of Pergamum. Eventually, Pinara became a Roman city when Pergamum was willed by its last king Attalus III to the Roman Republic in 133 B.

u/Historydom — 3 days ago

Happy 250th anniversary AMERICA! 🇺🇸 The oldest Surviving Colonial Flag: The Nathaniel Byfield Flag (c. 1687)

u/Historydom — 4 days ago

The members of Majles - First Iranian parliament in history, 1906, Baharestan, Sublime State of Iran

u/Historydom — 4 days ago

It is considered that Nazism was an ideology of right but actually it was left one. Let’s talk about it.

u/Historydom — 4 days ago

Lenin was the first modern ruler to create a system of labor and concentration camps. Stalin later expanded it into a massive, systematic machinery of terror that endured for decades.

u/Historydom — 5 days ago

Stalin on the cover of TIME magazine - in 1939 and 1942

Did you know that Stalin was appeared on TIME magazine twice: in 1939 for signing the nonaggression pact with Nazi germany and in 1942 for leading the defense against the same Nazi German invasion.

Thus, he became the first ethnical GEORGIAN appeared on the cover of TIME magazine.

u/Historydom — 8 days ago

Why is Trotskyism so popular and acceptable in the West, while he was just a heartless butcher of the Soviet Empire?

u/Historydom — 9 days ago

How many people were killed under Mao’s regime? Most realistic numbers please!

u/Historydom — 12 days ago

Was there any legitimate reason why Lenin executed the whole family of Nicholas II?

u/Historydom — 15 days ago