That's such a cool find. Cremating bodies, roasting Hazel nuts and spearing fish.

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Not all of us have kids though

But that's fine, I'm cool with just being a branch on this crazy tree of life.

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I totally agree. I've thought about that before and definitely take solace knowing we all carry on through our DNA. It's cool when someone makes a (good) impact on history and gets to live on through history too.

I said in, not from! I cite 1105 because the article dates the glass to the 12th/13th centuries.

Actually, Scotland had minor trade links with Islamic Iberia at the beginning of the 8th century, and had contact with the Muslim world from some time in the 7th, you are a few centuries out.

Surely no great mystery, Islam had spread to Iberia by about the 8th century, and Scotland had some minor trade links there. That Islamic items ended up in Scotland should be of no surprise to anyone who knows the history.

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“Never that which is shall die.” —Euripides

Good luck, hope you find one!

Hey there! I liked The Etruscans by Graeme Baker and Tom Rassmussen!

Hi! Will do, thanks.

Hey, hey! I don't have a recmmendation, but in case you don't get one, try reposting your comment on next week's thread (goes up around 9 am EST on Wed)!

What is the first recorded instance of an ad (either print, radio, or TV) saying, “But wait! There’s more!”?

They're not completely gone, their DNA lives on in their ancestors in sort of beautiful way. You and are the culmination of millions before us. Pretty cool

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I visited the Neues Museum in Berlin yesterday where they had the mummies of three girls and a quote by one of the researchers there saying something like „you have to realize that these were once people like us with hopes and dreams“.

The og Detective Comics (DC) comics.

>Rome is remembered for its supreme power, advanced engineering, military successes, religious customs, entertainment and its brutality.

You're just describing any empire.

>Whatever your view of Rome, you can’t deny that its international rule had wide-scale effects on our development.

Same as the British empire, Qing empire, Mongol empire, etc.

>The United States of America is the modern Rome, it similarity is uncanny.

O-kay.

Yeah, i also hate that old bones have no writing on them!

Hi everyone!

Can you recommend me a book (ideally, one) on the origin of personal rights and property in the Western world?

From various sources, we can perhaps see the origin of the rights' protection and movement towards libertarianism is starting from the Magna Carta. Then, common people were not only slaves/serfs, like in the Russian Tsardom/Empire, but also villeins with their own land and property, and who were able to pay to become free men by paying to their lord. And when you changed lords, your land and property stay yours. A different mentality of people in service even 800-1000 years ago.

I've been speaking and studying English for 20+ years, and becoming older, I realized that the fundamental basis of Western law - values of rights, respect of personal boundaries, and equality (and, as following, its effect on how people think of themselves and others) - are interesting to me.

Is there perhaps one book that follows these topics of the origin of rights in the established law, Magna Carta, and how this system in law and culture senses developed over 1000 years?

Thanks.

I read it as "human dog bones" and was confused and concerned

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