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Highlighted threads from what is still technically last month (May). Bronze Age memories of Egyptian greatness: x.com/lefineder/stat…
Tacitus related how, when a Roman general (Germanicus) visited Thebes, the Egyptian priests told him about the Bronze Age conquests of New Kingdom Egypt based on hieroglyphic inscriptions in their temples. "He visited the vast ancient ruins of Egyptian Thebes (Luxor). On the…
The various failed attempts of two 18th-century Transylvanian women to kill their husbands.
On this day in 365 AD, this Roman house in Kourion, Cyprus was one of thousands to collapse in a catastrophic earthquake that struck the Eastern Mediterranean. Excavating the destroyed house in 1987, archaeologists discovered...
Alfred the Great lamenting how learning has decayed in England.
"I wondered that the good and wise men who were formerly all over England, and had perfectly learnt all the books, did not wish to translate them into their own language..They did not think that men would ever be so careless, and that learning would so decay" - Alfred the Great.