Europeβs Oldest Map Shows Tiny Bronze Age Kingdom https://atlasobscura.com/articles/europe-oldest-map-shows-tiny-bronze-age-kingdom #Map #Archaeology #History #Europe #histadons #archaeodons #mapstodon
Source: https://twitter.com/bibliolater1452/status/1645033819236335616
Early ships and the spread of Indo-European and Anatolian #languages https://www.academia.edu/73100916/EARLY_SHIPS_AND_THE_SPREAD_OF_INDO_EUROPEAN_AND_ANATOLIAN_LANGUAGES #Archaeology #History #histadons #archaeodons
Source: https://twitter.com/Jorrit_Kelder/status/1644729204020244480
Hereβs why the geometric patterns in salt flats worldwide look so similar https://www.sciencenews.org/article/geometric-patterns-salt-flats-worldwide #mathstodon #maths #science
Source: https://twitter.com/ScienceNews/status/1644792249249611776?s=20
Homer and the power of story-telling https://antigonejournal.com/2022/03/homer-story-telling/ #Greek #Literature #Classics
Source: https://twitter.com/AntigoneJournal/status/1644794784643440642?s=20
Lunar eclipses illuminate timing and climate impact of #medieval volcanism
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-023-05751-z #Science #History #Histodons
Hakenbeck, S., & BΓΌntgen, U. (2022). The role of drought during the Hunnic incursions into central-east Europe in the 4th and 5th c. CE. Journal of Roman Archaeology, 35(2), 876-896. doi: https://doi.org/10.1017/S1047759422000332 #Climate #Migration #Roman #Archaeology #History #Histodon #OpenAccess
We often think of the Greco-Roman world as all-white. But it was not.
βTake Lucian, a high-ranking Roman official in the second century. Born in Syria, he later chose to be a naturalized Roman. As a non-native speaker of Greek and Latin who, by his own admission, looked different from many people in Greece and Rome, he dealt with issues of ethnicity, language use and social acceptance (from a (via @ufresearch classicist)
https://theconversation.com/what-a-second-century-roman-citizen-lucian-can-teach-us-about-diversity-and-acceptance-196726
#Multiculturalism #Diversity
1/2 Happy 550th Birthday to Nicolaus Copernicus! A while back I write about how he shook up our view of the universe, for
@astronomymag: https://astronomy.com/magazine/2019/07/how-copernicus-moved-the-sun #Copernicus #Copernicus550 #astronomy #science #history #histsci
Michelle Pfeffer, Astrology, #plague, and prognostication in early modern #England: A forgotten chapter in the history of public #health, Past & Present, 2023;, gtac044, https://doi.org/10.1093/pastj/gtac044 #OpenAccess #OA #History #Article #Histodons
The Winds in Western Tradition https://rutter-blog.blogspot.com/2023/02/the-winds-in-western-tradition.html #Geography #History #Science #Histodons
Yona, S., & Davis, G. (Eds.). (2023). Epicurus in Rome: Philosophical Perspectives in the Ciceronian Age. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. doi: https://doi.org/10.1017/9781009281416 #Classics #Philosophy #Ancient #Book #Bookstodon #OpenAccess #OA
Landry, E. (2023). Plato Was Not a Mathematical Platonist (Elements in the Philosophy of Mathematics). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. https://doi.org/10.1017/9781009313797 #Philosophy #Mathematics #Maths #Math #OpenAccess #OA
Rees, L. (2023). βAspire, persevere and indulge notβ: New wealth and gentry society in Wales, c. 1760β1840. Rural History, 1-16. doi: https://doi.org/10.1017/S0956793322000267 #History #Wales #Article #OpenAccess #OA
Just so you know, the k in kilo- (as in kW, km or kB) MUST always be lowercase. Also, B should be uppercase when it stands for byte, but lowercase when it stands for bit.
Additionally, units derived from someone’s name (i.e., ohm, watt, newton, hertz) use an uppercase abbreviation (i.e., Ξ©, W, N, Hz), while the rest use lowercase letters (i.e., l, m, g).
No, I’m not autistic, but picky with certain things.
"How To Get The Most Out of A #Book - Analytical #Reading 101" on #YouTube https://youtu.be/Ls2ynrMv10A #Video #books #bookstodon
Why does February have 28 days?
https://ed.ted.com/best_of_web/MXwQDDs8 #Video
Source: https://twitter.com/TED_ED/status/1622007173306884100
Cryptic lost Canaanite #language decoded on 'Rosetta Stone'-like tablets https://livescience.com/tablets-with-lost-canaanite-language #Archaeology #Literature
The Earliest Mention of the Placename Sinai: The Journeys of Khety
https://www.asor.org/anetoday/2023/02/sinai-journeys-khety #History #Histodons #Egyptology
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