“Unlock the Secrets of Time: 50 Mesmerizing Photos That Reveal the Untold Stories of Our Past!”
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#20 “It Is Amazing To Literally Rewrite What We Know Of History, Adding A New Queen To Our Records.”
Archaeologists in Egypt just discovered the existence of a previously-unknown queen named Neith after unearthing a pyramid built in her honor at Saqqara. She was likely named after the goddess Neith, who was worshipped from the Predynastic Period until the Romans took control of the kingdom. She was the goddess of creation, wisdom, weaving, war, and many earlier Egyptian queens were named after her due to her importance
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#21 “Let The People See What They Did To My Boy.” That’s What Emmett Till’s Mother Said After She Saw Her 14-Year-Old Son’s Mutilated Body In 1955
Mamie Till-Mobley had never intended to become an activist, but she knew that her child was far from the only victim of lynching in Jim Crow America. And she felt that a public funeral would force people to confront the ugly reality of racially-motivated m*rders. Over Labor Day weekend, nearly 100,000 mourners viewed the boy's body in an open-casket service in Chicago. Till-Mobley also permitted a photographer to take pictures of Emmett's face and distribute them to African American magazines and newspapers so people across America could see him as well.
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#22 On December 12, 1972, Baroness Marie-Hélène De Rothschild And Her Husband Guy Hosted The Legendary Surrealist Ball At Their Chateau In France
With a guest list that included Audrey Hepburn and Salvador Dalí, dinner plates covered in fur, and a dessert that looked like a naked woman, the night was equal parts opulent and bizarre
