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University really is about looking at the worst pdf known to man huh

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studying ancient history will have you thinking stuff like The 18th century was basically yesterday

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My collection

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if ai is so smart and good how come i just had a student submit an assignment with the phrase “the collapse of the Chaco Canyon about 4,200 years ago in Mesopotamia” in it

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not now mr thesis i'm reading my old prof's work on warrior queens in hellenistic period

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american followers with masculine identities pls take my survey

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The Tiger Poem in Classical Maya!

The Tiger He has destroyed his cage Yes Yes The tiger is out By Nael, Age 6

Literal translation:

he-destroyed his-captive-place the-jaguar yes-yes he-came.out the-jaguar his-writing master-Na'el man[of]-6-years

Transliteration:

ʔu-jomow ʔu-baaknal ʔu-balahm xt xt Joyoy ʔu-balahm ʔu-tz'ibaal Aj-Naʔel Aj-6-habiy

Character Transliteration (ALL CAPS are characters that stand for full words, lower case are syllabic):

ʔu-jo-mo-wa ʔu-ba-ki-NAL ʔu-BALAM-la-ma xa-ta-xa-ta jo-JOY-yi ʔu-BALAM-ma ʔu-tz'i-ba-li AJ-na-ʔe-le AJ-6-HAB-bi-ya

[Image shows the poem written in 2 columns of Maya glyph blocks. A diagram shows the reading order (which is complex). All the posts text is also included on the image.

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This is badass: Medieval Nubian Fashion Brought to Life. Click through to the link because there’s more replica clothing and it is all stunning!

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A Young Daughter of the Picts, Steph Wilson

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Ever since I was a little girl I’ve loved information

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my mother sent me an article about pedantry around historical accuracy in gladiator ii yesterday but i did not respect what it had to say at all because it mistakenly said crassus the triumvir held a funeral for his dead eel. WRONG that was lucius licinius crassus the consul of 95 bce. embarrassing and sad!

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Me when I see the word beaʃte

In my head: ah! The archaic form of the letter s! Being a casual scholar of linguistics myself I am well aware that though it resembles the letter f in modern typography in fact it is phonetically identical to s! How foolish it would be to stumble into such a simple lexiconical pitfall!

Me aloud to myself every time: beeft

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As I was going through Charles Benson’s 1864 journal I came across a recipe for gingerbread that he had written down. It’s rare to come across a historical recipe written by a Black person that hasn’t been rewritten for white audiences. This is definitely a working man’s recipe for other working men. Compare it to any other gingerbread recipe you might be familiar with, or here’s a comparable 1868 recipe from “Mrs. Winslow”.

I halved the recipe but otherwise made it as Mr. Benson had written it. Molasses was the main sweetener for most working-class households in New England, and is the only sweetener in this cake. The lard is the only fat, and the leavening agents here are the sour milk (buttermilk) and (baking) soda. I baked it in a pie pan for about 40 minutes at 350 degrees Fahrenheit. It made for a very tender, lightly sweet and lightly spiced cake with a crispy top— very delicious!

[Transcription:

Ginger Bread

4 cups flour

2 “” molasses

1 “” sour milk

1 tablespoonfull of ginger

1/2 cup of Lard

1 teaspoonfull of soda]

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I was rambling on the issue of museums and human remains and how certain populations are more likely to have their bodies put on display to be gawked at and then went "well I guess the Pompeii casts were of Europeans. there are bones in there right?" and Googled it to make sure, at which point I confirmed that yes there are bones in there, but more interestingly DNA testing revealed that a cast of an adult holding a child everyone assumed was a mother and child were, in fact, a man and a kid entirely unrelated to him. Honestly that's more moving to me. Maybe they were connected in a way other than blood, but maybe a stranger saw a child when the world was ending and thought the one thing he could do was hold them.