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It is very epic that there is a mosaic depiction of Constantinople in the neo-Byzantine Westminster Cathedral in London.

Would be super exciting if true. I remember reading an attempt to etymologize the plurals in a dialect in Boyer-Ahmad as an Elamite substrate but have no idea where to find it…bit convoluted, but definitely fun to think about

Was really hoping they’d find that Northwest Passage

An astonishing hoard of 39 Roman gold aurei has been unearthed in Suffolk! The coins of the 'Hartismere District Hoard' date from the reigns of Augustus to Nero (c.19 BC-55 AD) and were probably buried by a Roman soldier around the turbulent period of the Boudican revolt.

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He bewerede Engla lande is þætte he dyde. He wæs beald Engla cyning. And on þissum huse, Harold Godwining is hæle! Ende þæs spelles!

Don’t know if this was already the consensus among historians, but pretty fascinating breakthrough

Some more fascinating news on the archeology/genetics front (Hun-Xiongnu continuity)

Nightmare fuel

Head of the Security Service of Ukraine Vasyl Maliuk delivered a report regarding today’s operation. An absolutely brilliant result. A result achieved solely by Ukraine. One year, six months, and nine days from the start of planning to effective execution. Our most long-range

The pre-Islamic script from Dhofar is undeciphered and therefore there are no inscriptions of this type in #OCIANA. Now we have the decipherment of the main variant of the Dhofari alphabet: academia.edu/129778573/Al_J…. There is much more work to be done now that reading is possible.

Worth noting this excavation was just two days(!) from the start of Operation Barbarossa

#OTD 11 years ago, Russia shot down a civilian plane #MH17, killing 298 people. We remember the victims and continue to work to bring those responsible to justice.

I like to imagine there was a Nazca child who would refuse to eat their mashed cassava unless it was served in the mice bowl

Excited to announce the launch of our new open-source platform Horizons at C4ADS! We've used this tool for years to aggregate, organize and investigate billions of public records, and now we're opening it up to the broader public. More details below

Proud of the C4ADS team on their work uncovering a multi-billion dollar oil smuggling network linking Iran, Russia and China. Great case study of what you can dig up with PAI (so long as you know where to look!)

A Greek exam from the days when you *really* had to know your Herodotus (Trinity College, Cambridge, 1826):

This is what Europeans imagined Prester John would be like