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🔴 🌍 **List of territory purchased by a sovereign nation from another sovereign nation**
#History #Histodon #Histodons #Wikipedia #List #Nations @histodon @histodons
🔴 📖 🇮🇹 **Lives of the early Medici : As told in their correspondence by Janet Ross**
🔗 https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/74973
#History #Medici #Florence #Italy #Read #Reading #Nonfiction #Book #Books #Ebook #EBooks #Bookstodon @bookstodon
#Image attribution: National Gallery of Art, CC0, via Wikimedia Commons. Page URL: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Florentine_15th_Century,_Cosimo_de%27_Medici,_1389-1464,_Pater_Patriae_(obverse),_c._1465-1469,_NGA_44771.jpg.
🔴 **Ancient genomics support deep divergence between Eastern and Western Mediterranean Indo-European languages**
_“We find a deep east-west divide of steppe ancestry in Southern Europe during the Bronze Age. Specifically, we show that the arrival of steppe ancestry in Spain, France, and Italy was mediated by Bell Beaker (BB) populations of Western Europe, likely contributing to the emergence of the Italic and Celtic languages. In contrast, Armenian and Greek populations acquired steppe ancestry directly from Yamnaya groups of Eastern Europe.”_
Yediay, F.E. et al. (2024) 'Ancient genomics support deep divergence between Eastern and Western Mediterranean Indo-European languages,' bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory) [Preprint]. https://doi.org/10.1101/2024.12.02.626332.
#Preprint #Ancient #History #IndoEuropean #Languages #Linguistics #Archaeology #Archaeodons #Anthropology #BronzeAge #Academia #Academics @linguistics @archaeodons @anthropology
🔴 **Water and Gruel – not Bread: Discovering the Diet of Early Neolithic Farmers in Scandinavia**
_“The results support a hypothesis that archaeobotanists and archaeologists elsewhere in Northern Europe also have proposed after discovering remains of grains cooked into porridge and gruel: that the first farmers did not live on water and bread but rather on water and gruel, alongside berries, nuts, roots, and meat.”_
🔗 https://nat.au.dk/en/about-the-faculty/news/show/artikel/stenalderbonden-var-paa-vand-og-groed
#Archaeology #Archaeodons #History #Histodon #Histodons #Neolithic #Scandinavia #Europe #Diet #Porridge #Gruel @archaeodons @histodon @histodons
🔴 🇳🇴 **Treasure trove of jewellery, coins and ‘vulva stone’ discovered in Viking women’s graves**
Vishwam Sankaran
_“Archaeologists theorise that the vulva stone may have served as a marker to indicate the grave belonged to a woman, whose body was likely not buried in the tomb but elsewhere._
_This theory could explain why none of the women’s bones were found at the burial site, researchers suggest.”_
#Archaeology #Archaeodons #Vikings #Norway #Scandinavia #Europe #History #Histodon #Histodons @archaeodons @histodon @histodons
🔴 🇺🇸 **The Early Days of American English**
"How English words evolved on a foreign continent. "
🔗 https://www.laphamsquarterly.org/roundtable/early-days-american-english
#USA #US #UnitedStates #America #English #Words #Langauge #Linguistics #History #Histodon #Histodons @histodon @histodons @linguistics
**What brought the decline of the eastern Roman Empire – and what can we learn from it?**
_"It seems the Roman Empire entered the 7th century at the peak of its power. But Roman miscalculations, and their failure against their Persian opponents, brought the entire area into a downward spiral. This left the two empires weak and allowed Islam to rise."_
#History #Histodon #Histodons #RomanEmpire #Romans #Imperialism #Empire @histodon @histodons
🔴 🇬🇧 **Newly uncovered sites reveal true power of great Viking army in Britain**
Dalya Alberge
_“The finds reflect that the great army was not simply a military force but a community of men, women, children, craftworkers and merchants. The new evidence reflects the wide range of activities undertaken at the camps, from creating metalwork, minting coins and engaging in trade.”_
#Archaeology #Archaeodons #Vikings #UnitedKingdom #UK #GB #Britain #History #Histodon #Histodons @histodon @histodons @archaeodons
🔴 🏴 🎥 **Rome’s African Emperor & His Campaigns in Scotland**
Bath Royal Literary and Scientific Institution
_"In the early 3rd century Severus launched an immense shock and awe assault on Scotland that was so devastating it resulted in 80 years of peace on Rome’s most troublesome border. Uncover the fascinating tale of the largest force to ever campaign on British soil."_
#Video length: one hour and four minutes.
🔗 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fxOVY0Rg0c8
#History #Histodon #Histodons #Britain #Scotland #Africa #Rome #RomanEmpire #Imperium #Empire #Imperialism #SeptimiusSeverus @histodon @histodons
🔴 **Ten Commandment tablet that was used as paving stone sells for millions**
AP Correspondent
_"The tablet dates from 300 to 800 A.D. and is inscribed with the commandments in Paleo-Hebrew script — the only complete example of its kind from antiquity, according to Sotheby's._
_Sotheby’s said the tablet was used as a paving stone at a local home until 1943 when it was sold to a scholar who grasped its significance."_
#History #Histodon #Histodons #Archaeology #Archaeodons @histodon @histodons
🔴 🇩🇪 **Mysterious amulet discovered in Germany could rewrite history**
Namita Singh
_“The most significant aspect of the discovery is its age, according to a press release issued by the Frankfurt city government. The grave where the amulet was found is dated to between 230 and 270 AD, making it the first example of “such authentic evidence of pure Christianity north of the Alps” during this period.”_
#Archaeology #Archaeodons #History #Histodon #Histodons #Germany #Europe #Christianity #Religion @archaeodons @histodon @histodons @religion
🔴 📖 **Miss M. Marshall, the mysterious bookbinder**
_“In careers articles and exhibition reviews, women binders are often referred to as ‘Miss’ plus surname. Miss M. Marshall, the binder of Library’s newly acquired copy of William Morris's Poems (1908) has proved difficult to research, but we can reveal her identity.”_
🔗 https://blogs.bl.uk/untoldlives/2024/12/miss-m-marshall-the-mysterious-bookbinder.html.
#History #Book #Books #Women #Bookbinding #Craft #Bookstodon @bookstodon
🔴 🇬🇪 **Ancient Tablet Etched With Mysterious Language Found in Georgia**
Mike McRae
_"The letters' shapes might resemble Middle Eastern symbols, while mirroring the seals of Bronze and Early Iron Age Georgia. The researchers note the signs are also reminiscent of Proto-Kartvelian script – a language that would give rise to modern dialects and
languages of the region."_
🔗 https://www.sciencealert.com/ancient-tablet-etched-with-mysterious-language-found-in-georgia.
#Ancient #History #Histodon #Histodons #Archaeology #Archaeodons #Georgia #Language @histodon @histodons
🔴 🎥 **The Life of Jochi Khan: First son of Genghis Khan**
The Jackmeister: Mongol History
🔗 (i) https://youtu.be/jvaMjlxuQNw
🔗 (ii) https://youtu.be/EkVeDsPg6lE
#Video #History #Histodon #Histodons #GenghisKhan #JochiKhan #Khan #Mongol #Empire @histodon @histodons
🔴 📖 **The New Roman Empire**
Reviewed by Peggy Kurkowski
_“ Historian Anthony Kaldellis simply awes in The New Roman Empire, a massive undertaking that captures the large, small, and quotidian events, lives, and oh-so-many intrigues of Byzantium from the age of Constantine to its fall in 1453.”_
🔗 https://www.washingtonindependentreviewofbooks.com/bookreview/the-new-roman-empire.
#NonFiction #BookReview #Book #Bookstodon #History #Histodon #Histodons #Byzantium #Empire @histodon @histodons @bookstodon
🔴 🇳🇱 **Archaeologists make unprecedented discovery of Roman soldier’s remains from ‘year 0’**
Vishwam Sankaran
_“Today, evidence was found of Roman habitation in the time of Emperor Augustus. A unique discovery that not only teaches us more about our past, but also shows how unique the story of Roman Heerlen is for the Netherlands,” Jordy Clemens, Heerlen’s council member for culture and heritage, said in a statement._
🔗 https://www.independent.co.uk/news/science/archaeology/roman-soldier-remains-year-zero-b2663810.html.
#History #Histodon #Histodons #Archaeology #Archaeodons #Netherlands #RomanEmpire #Roman #Empire #Europe @histodon @histodons @archaeodons
🔴 **Idolatry, God(s), and Demons among the Jews of Sasanian Babylonia**
_“The frequent engagement with themes relating to the supernatural and the divine in the Babylonian Talmud, when read alongside the Jewish magical evidence from Babylonia and other contemporary sources, suggests a degree of anxiety about the fact that the rabbis were grappling with the appeal of a multiplicity of deities and forces present among the inhabitants of Sasanian Babylonia and that they were actively seeking to clarify how their notions of the divine differed from those of their neighbours.”_
Herman, G. 2021. Idolatry, God(s), and Demons among the Jews of Sasanian Babylonia. In: Kiperwasser, R. and Herman, G. ed. Expressions of Sceptical Topoi in (Late) Antique Judaism. Berlin, Boston: De Gruyter, pp. 85-100. https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110671483-006.
#OpenAccess #OA #DOI #History #Babylonia #Theology #Religion @religion
🔴 🇺🇸 **The burial site of slaves owned by a former US president has finally been found**
Travis Loller
_"At least 26 enslaved people died on the Tennessee plantation of President Andrew Jackson, the seventh US president, between 1804 and the end of the Civil War in 1865._
_Nobody knew where they were buried. But on Wednesday, the Andrew Jackson Foundation announced a discovery: They believe they have found the slave cemetery at The Hermitage, the home of America's seventh president."_
#Slavery #Slaves #AndrewJackson #Nashville #Tennessee #USA #US #UnitedStates #America #History #Histodon #Histodons @histodon @histodons
🔴 🇵🇹 🇬🇧 **An Unknown History Of Portugal (c 1570) In William Cecil's Library: Commissioning And Writing History During the Elizabethan Era**
_“The manuscript is in a mid-sixteenth-century hand and has personal annotations by William Cecil (1520–98), better known as Lord Burghley. It recounts the history of Portugal by reigns and belonged to Cecil’s personal library. Until now, no other extant example of a history of Portugal written in English in the sixteenth century was known.”_
Lowe, K. and Vila-Santa, N. (2024) ‘AN UNKNOWN HISTORY OF PORTUGAL (c 1570) IN WILLIAM CECIL’S LIBRARY: COMMISSIONING AND WRITING HISTORY DURING THE ELIZABETHAN ERA’, The Antiquaries Journal, pp. 1–29. doi: https://doi.org/10.1017/S0003581524000167.
#OpenAccess #OA #Article #DOI #C16th #16thCentury #Culture #History #UK #UnitedKingdom #Portugal #Histodon #Histodons #Academia #Academics @histodon @histodons
🔴 🇺🇸 **Newly Discovered Massachusetts Silver Threepence from 1652 Brings $2.52 Million**
Stack's Bowers Galleries
_"Struck within weeks of the establishment of the first mint to be opened in the future United States, the New England threepence is the only example known outside of a museum."_
#Numismatics #Massachusetts #NewEngland #USA #US #UnitedStates #America #Coins #History
Not a bot just a chap in his fifties who occasionally reads things.
Toots are humanities, science, non-fiction, books, maps, charts and graphs related. Some toots containing videos may also find their way into the timeline.
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