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www.labrujulaverde.com
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| | | | | Archaeology often speaks to us through stones, bones, and ceramics. Rarely does it return the intimate voice of everyday acts, such as the stroke of writing. An exceptional discovery in the Roman city of Conimbriga, in central Portugal, has achieved precisely that: recovering not only a scribe's ins | |
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zythophile.co.uk
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| | | | | It's a claim you will find repeated in dozens - possibly hundreds - of places: that the so-called "Hymn to Ninkasi", a poem in the Sumerian language to the goddess of beer, at least 3,900 years old, known from three fragmentary clay tablets found in and around the ancient city of Nippur, which stood between | |
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historyforatheists.com
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| | | | | If there is a story that forms the heart of New Atheist bad history, it's the tale of the Great Library of Alexandria and its destruction by a Christian mob. It's the central moral fable of the Draper-White Thesis, where wise and rational Greeks and Romans store up all the wisdom of the pre-Christian ancient world in a single library, treasuring science and reason and bringing western civilisation to the brink of a technological and industrial revolution. But then a... Read More Read More | |
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nathangoldwag.wordpress.com
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| | | Clive meeting Mir Jafar after the Battle of Plassey, Francis Hayman, c.?1762) Between 1492 and 1918 CE, European nations, dynasties, explorers, and adventurers overran and conquered nearly the entire Earth, in what has to be considered the most consequential act of imperial expansion in world history. Virtually everything in our world today can trace its... | ||
