Is there a metal band called Bog Bones? If not, there should be.

The way I always reconcile with that thought is that we live on through the interactions and imprints we leave upon others. Your face and your name may be forgotten, though it could be remembered by history somehow, but those whose lives you touched will echo forward endlessly. It's all we can do to make sure it's a calm ripple and not a violent riptide.

When it comes to the Holocaust and the discrimination/abuse the Jews faced, Hitler is the first name that is mentioned. Why aren’t Goebbels and Himmler prominent name in the general public when they are practically the architects of it all?

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Blows my mind. The billions of people that lived before us. Gone like dust in the wind. They have families, problems, struggles, successes, thoughts and ideas, happy times and sad times. They were the centre of their own world for a second in this universe, then gone and forgotten

Makes sense why early writing could have been seen as magic. Capturing memories, ideas, and knowledge into something physical that can be shared and passed down. I wonder, if similar to photographs which were looked at with a lot of superstition, if early writing/runes had this same aura.

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In terms of daily spoken language used by the common folk: mutually intelligible with the modern Turkish.

Official documents are mostly unintelligible if you do not know all the loanwords from Persian and Arabic tho, even if you can read the alphabet.

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this is a thought that has crossed my mind a couple of times seeing full roman skeletons presented in a museum; laid out under glas in their sarcophagus to just... look at.

Not that I personally would mind if it were mine. But its a weird conflict because the reason this is "fine" is that they're just bones, not people, their identities and in any real way something intimate and private - but the only real reason we display old skeletons like this (which are completely ordinary modern human skeletons in most regards) is also because we're fascinated and interested in the fact that this used to be a person that walked, talked and had a life.

Right? So many lost thoughts and ideas over time :/

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Amazing that these bones used to be people with unique identities and stories, but they will never be fully understood because writing wasn't invented yet.

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