Umut Can Gün makes an excellent point here. In his Conversation article attacking Graham Hancock, Flint Dibble engages in selective quotation of Hancock to make the latter's quotation of Donnelly in Fingerprints of the Gods look racist. Here is Dibble's Conversation article:

One of my favorite archaeological sites is Túcume, in the Lambayeque valley of northern Peru. There are many archaeological sites at which you may feel something strange - almost as if the landscape itself has its own power, such as at Delphi, in Greece. Túcume has its own vibe,

It is well-preserved, but not insanely so because it is a replica ... of a discovery that is now a quarter of a century old. I visited this place fifteen years ago and remember these replicas on site. I just checked my photographs from that trip and the original is in the

Amazing! Anyextee's tours now don't just take you around the world, they take you back in time too! Apparently with a time machine because only that could explain his statement "My group was treated on-site as these finds are being revealed in real time." That is impossible as

In a few years, Americans will see that the only consequence of defunding parts of academia was fewer publications which no one cares about anyway. What will happen next?

Half the colleges in the United States going out of business isn't bad, except that that number is way, way too low. Treason seminaries and sinecures for the most dysgenic, overeducated yet under-informed humans that have ever plagued this Earth have the opposite of value.

Figures like this, where almost every date has been chosen not for accuracy but simply to get a total duration close to 250 years, make any historian worth his salt cringe badly. But if you look at all the takedowns in the comments and you will be happy that at least a lot of

Many of the greatest breakthroughs in science have come about through being able to understand that forces invisible to the naked eye can be understood by following how observable things react when exposed to them. Trump has been going off the rails in recent days, promoting

Made for a modern audience

Why am I completely unsurprised that academic archaeologists were involved in this complete abomination.

I just want them to stop. They don't know how to adapt Tolkien. Nobody in Hollywood can write worth a damn. Just stop. All your "projects" suck, and will continue to suck.

Nioh Berg asks what went wrong with Western civilization to cause it to commit suicide. The answer seems quite clear - Western civilization became so unbelievably successful that it faced no credible outside threat. At the same time, it became so successful it could save its

Leftism in a nutshell. They simply declare whatever they oppose to be "fascism" and so here reveal, beyond dispute, that they are simply against anything that is good and successful. Because they hate what they are not and can never be.

There's been a very interesting discussion on X lately over what caused the fall of the Roman Empire. This even ended up seeing Roman Helmet Guy, arguing that it was Rome's employment of foreign mercenaries in its armies, taking on Elon Musk himself, who argued for the dropping

Fun video by Cody with some nice graphics on the ever-popular Oracle of Delphi. Delphi is a very special place and always reminds me of the old saying that the three most important things in real estate are location, location, location. For pilgrimage sites this often seems to