Thought this was quite an interesting article and knew that it'd be a good idea to share it here. Whilst I'd judge that the title of the Article's use of the Rosetta stone is a clickbait gimmick, to get eyeballs and clicks, the article itself is still decent and interesting, so worth a read. I didn't the previously know that there was a major revolt during the Ptolomaic dynasty.

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>I've heard that the recent discovery of trace tobacco and cocaine in the systems of mummies put into question how large and global trade routes actually were. However due to this discovery, it seems to upend a large amount of current 'accepted' history on trade routes and is being dismissed as a fluke, even though multiple labs agree on the results.

>Do you have any information or thoughts on this?

>(Two links related to the subject found from Internet search to back my question. Originally heard of this debate on a multi-movie doc on Egypt)

>http://faculty.ucr.edu/~legneref/ethnic/mummy.htm

>https://worldhistory.us/ancient-history/ancient-egypt/cocaine-mummies.php

This is so unbelievable it's almost funny. Tobacco comes from the Americas and wasn't brought to the "Old World" until 1559 for King Phillip II of Spain. Which one is more likely here, that the results of these tests are an error or that the entire history of tobacco as we know it is wrong, as well as hundreds of years of recorded history of trade?

Really good, too bad they canceled it

Pre-industrial trade networks in general are pretty amazing. We’ve found pieces of abalone shell gathered on the west coast among the items of tribal people on the Great Plains

Out of curiosity, do you know if it was it more common at the time for long distance trade routs to be a trader making a super long journey or a series of relays. Like I sell to the market that's only a couple of weeks away, they sell to another market and so on?

You mean the old English guy that named them?

Ross King has been at the Free Library of Philadelphia a few times. I always enjoy his talks. His one on the Bookseller of Florence was really interesting. I would recommend listening to all of them. He's really engaging.

Here's the link to his hit results on their author events talks: http://libwww.freelibrary.org/podcast/?q=Ross+King

How are you finding graduate/post-graduate life, both academic and in the job market? My undergrad was half classics/history/archaeology and i greatly enjoyed it (although after four years as a commercial archaeologist i am never going back to that), but decided against grad school/post-grad in those disciplines. I love classics and history i just need to make some money too. I hate having to choose.

There's been a few AMAs on /r/askhistorians about piracy from people promoting their books. This one sounds like it would be the closest to what you're asking about: https://www.reddit.com/r/AskHistorians/comments/9gv3ax/iama_history_lecturer_who_is_an_expert_on_the/

Another: https://www.reddit.com/r/AskHistorians/comments/k04tmz/ama_the_golden_age_of_piracy/

Another: https://www.reddit.com/r/AskHistorians/comments/1fpy0w/wednesday_ama_piracy_from_antiquity_to_the_present/

And this is a little tidbit from my local history society. It' hypothesizes that Sir. Francis Drake actually was in Oregon when he came up the Pacific coast and not north of San Francisco. I don't really buy it, but it is fun and she raises some interesting issues about language that kind of highlight the difficulties of assessing what these early explorers meant when they didn't know the languages or the different peoples they were encountering. https://youtu.be/oPq92OMJnBE

There's another Pirate Queen book by Rebecca Simon. She did an AMA at /r/askhistorians: https://www.reddit.com/r/AskHistorians/comments/wk2yfu/ama_female_pirates/

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Not quite the last. There was Ptolemy of Mauretania who was her grandson.

Famously he was killed by Caligula because apparently he turned up one day with a better looking purple cloak and Caligula took offense at it.

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I did not think of that, but it makes sense

My favorite Fun Fact she was technically the last of Hellenic royalty. Of what was the ancient greek world, only influences in Egypt were left after the Romans started doing what Romans do best.

>Perhaps this is just a fantasy thing, but how did we get to the point where dungeons are typically underground mazes? Building underground is always going to be more difficult than building above ground level, or rather ground water level. If people did build underground, was it mainly as a way to store food because we did not have refrigerators back then?

This might have its origin in catacombs as found under Rome and Paris, which are quite labyrinthine but not built to any central plan.

It’s not just the west. Humans are trible to a somewhat arbitrary degree. It is a struggle for the species not just a society.

Or physics, biology and basically every science.

Time is a flat circle?

During Egypts known heyday The tin needed for bronze was all sourced from mines in Britain and Afghanistan iirc.

You rock pal! Thanks for that awesome info! Super interesting stuff! Do you have a book recommendation perhaps?

Best of luck to you!

I've heard that the recent discovery of trace tobacco and cocaine in the systems of mummies put into question how large and global trade routes actually were. However due to this discovery, it seems to upend a large amount of current 'accepted' history on trade routes and is being dismissed as a fluke, even though multiple labs agree on the results.

Do you have any information or thoughts on this?

(Two links related to the subject found from Internet search to back my question. Originally heard of this debate on a multi-movie doc on Egypt)

http://faculty.ucr.edu/~legneref/ethnic/mummy.htm

https://worldhistory.us/ancient-history/ancient-egypt/cocaine-mummies.php