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Not a bot, just a rather corpulent male fifty years of age; a very, very slow ignoramus who reads occasionally.
Toots are #humanities, #science, #nonfiction, #book, #map, #chart and #graph related. Some toots containing #videos may also find their way into the timeline.
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🔴 **Sutton Hoo and Syria: The Anglo-Saxons Who Served in the Byzantine Army?**
_“I am arguing that it is likely that the men buried in the princely burials at Prittlewell and Sutton Hoo mound 1 served, with a group of their contemporaries, as cavalry soldiers in the Foederati recruited by Tiberius in 575 in the wars with the Sasanians on the eastern front.”_
Helen Gittos, Sutton Hoo and Syria: The Anglo-Saxons Who Served in the Byzantine Army?, The English Historical Review, 2025;, ceae213, https://doi.org/10.1093/ehr/ceae213.
#OpenAccess #OA #Article #DOI #History #Histodon #Histodons #England #Europe #AngloSaxons #SuttonHoo #Byzantinum #Asia #Academia #Academics @histodon @histodons
🔴 🎥 **A Very Basic Introduction To Ancient Carthage**
MoAn Inc.
#Video length: thirty-two minutes and twenty-three seconds.
🔗 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3cuoGKSo8-A
#Ancient #History #Histodon #Histodons #Carthage @histodon @histodons
🔴 🗺️ **Johnson's Prussia Norway, Sweden and Denmark (1862)**
_“Includes Norway, Sweden, Denmark and Prussia. Also includes most, and in some cases all, of Finland, Poland, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, and parts of western Russia, though they are not the direct focus of the map.”_
#History #Cartography #Map #Prussia #Norway #Sweden #Denmark #Europe
#Image attribution: Alvin Jewett Johnson, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons. Page URL: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:1862_Johnson%27s_Map_of_Scandinavia,_Norway,_Sweden,_Finland_%5E_Denmark_-_Geographicus_-_Scandinavia-johnson-1862.jpg.
🔴 **High-resolution genomic history of early medieval Europe**
_“We reveal evidence of the southward and/or eastward expansion of individuals who probably spoke Germanic languages and who had Scandinavian-related ancestry in the first half of the first millennium ce. We note that ‘Scandinavian-related’ in this context relates to the ancient genomes available, and so it is entirely possible that these processes were driven, for example, from regions in northern-central Europe. This could be consistent with the attraction of the greater wealth, which tended to build up among Rome’s immediate neighbours and may have played a major role in vectors of migration internal to communities in Europe who lived beyond the Roman frontier52.”_
Speidel, L., Silva, M., Booth, T. et al. High-resolution genomic history of early medieval Europe. Nature 637, 118–126 (2025). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41586-024-08275-2
#OpenAccess #OA #Research #Article #DOI #Archaeology #Archaeodons #Genomics #Genetics #Science #History #Medieval #Medievodons #Scandinavia #Europe #Migration #Migrants #Academia #Academics @science @medievodons @archaeodons
🔴 **491 BC - 1902 AD - A Long Time Between Drinks**
_“ In 499 BC, the Persian Achaemenid Empire tried unsuccessfully to conquer various ancient Greek city-states. Finally in 449 BC a de facto peace was concluded and the Greco-Persian Wars effectively ended. In 1902, Mozaffar ad-Din Shah of Persia and George I of Greece agreed to de jure recognition and after 2393 years established diplomatic relations. This of course ignores a long history of Greco-Persian interactions thereafter throughout Antiquity, not least the Peace of Antalcidas, the conquests of Alexander the Great and the Seleucid Empire, or even the long history of the Byzantine-Persian wars.”_
#History #Histodon #Histodons #Greece #Europe #Persia #Asia #Cartoon @histodon @histodons
#Image attribution: Samuel D. Ehrhart, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons. Page URL: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:491_BC_-_1902_AD_-_A_Long_Time_Between_Drinks.jpg.
🔴 **Restoring At-Risk Assyrian Cultural Heritage: Archaeologists Recover Remarkably Preserved Shrines from a Temple in Iraq **
_“In its third season, project excavations unearthed two new shrines within the sprawling Ninurta Temple. Inside the larger shrine, the team found a monumental stone dais (a low platform for the statue of a god or goddess worshipped in the temple (measuring about 12 ft. by 9.5 ft.) with a cuneiform inscription, presumably of King Ashurnasirpal II.”_
#History #Histodon #Histodons #Archaeology #Archaeodons #Assriya #Iraq #MiddleEast #Asia @histodon @histodons
🔴 🎥 **Daniel Yergin – Oil Explains the Entire 20th Century**
Dwarkesh Patel
#Video length: one hour and twenty-eight minutes.
🔗 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sveBcfz0fHk
#History #Histodon #Histodons #Energy #Oil #FossilFuels #C20th #20thCentury @histodon @histodons
🔴 🌍 **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
Not a bot, just a rather corpulent male fifty years of age; a very, very slow ignoramus who reads occasionally.
Toots are #humanities, #science, #nonfiction, #book, #map, #chart and #graph related. Some toots containing #videos may also find their way into the timeline.
Toots or follows or boosts or mentions ≠ endorsements of any particular notion or notions.
Expect numerous typing errors and copious amounts of nonsensical commentary from my personal formulations.
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Joined Nov 2022
