Nah.

The last russian wasn't high value.

I'm glad they decided to study this, but yeah, far rightera hate education and science.

We all know that already.

Conspiracy theories bring comfort to people who are suffering from anxiety induced from the chaotic, random world we live in.

It allows them to cleverly self delude themselves into thinking they are actually incredibly smart. They now have the "truth". It makes them feel special. Once a person then is surrounded by others who also know the "truth", they form relationships that always reinforce their flawed beliefs. This is why it's incredibly difficult to bring a person back to reality after they've bought into conspiracy theories. You're taking away they're percieved uniqueness and in most cases, social circles. Any attempt to do this usually results in that person hiding inside the delusion even further. The person trying to help doesn't know the "truth" so how can they be right about anything else?

Conspiracy theories, misinformation, and propaganda has devastated my country. It caused thousands of Americans to try and over throw our govt. All based on easily verifiable lies.

I'm sorry what? I was just clarifying that guys comment for others who might be confused. And as for the irony? Who asked about irony anyway? If you're referring to why it's "ironic" that should be obvious via our comments

I don't mean any insult but your comment wasn't very clear and might be confusing to some people so I decided to clarify it.

The Nile river flows south to north originating from lake Victoria. It empties into the Mediterranean sea. The "upper Egypt" simply refers to the highlands( south) as opposed to the delta (flatlands, which are to the north). It originates from their originally being 2 Egyptian kingdoms. Lower egypt(delta, but now northern Egypt on the map) and upper Egypt (the highlands, now part of Southern Egypt on modern maps). The first dynasty and pharaohs United both kingdoms and is thought to be depicted in the https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Narmer_Palette

They essentially took both kingdoms logo and combined it into one crown you see most pharaohs wearing. https://www.ees.ac.uk/the-royal-crowns-of-egypt

Doing the real work. Thank you will skip it

I understand. I also should have chosen better words than "going in the wrong direction". Study whatever fascinates you. I believe we would have had more recorded words of "realists" if Socrates set a precedent to write things down, and it says alot about the culture where others didn't feel they could write these down without "blaspheming" essentially. Forgive me I'm not an expert but it reminds me about a Greek philosopher I heard about recently on a podcast about this very subject (if the Greeks believed the myths were literal). Aristarches maybe erasthones maybe? Can't remember ATM, would have to look it up. Supposedly he was writing and spreading the idea that they weren't literal, until the very moment he came down with a deadly disease. He then retracted everything he said and went to offer a sacrifice to some God looking to be healed after he continued to get worse. Sorry for the vagueness.

Good post but I think you're going the wrong direction with it. This seems to be a rational person just saying the truth of what some Greeks believed and that not many dared to write about. He's not the only ancient Greek to think the mythological stories weren't literal truth. There's a long line from these guys to educated Greek monks in the monasteries even suggesting they were simply parables.

Thanks great read!

Lol this is perfect. Longboats weren't there yet but they certainly weren't that far away in their evolution to becoming the iconic Longboat. They still had boats so it still works.

Yes. This is good to include in the TIL. Those names certainly fit. I wonder if further excavation might fund cremation burials nearby if it's a prominent family name. Be much easier to find if multiple family members were cremated than if it was just one lady named ideberga.

"Thurkill went to Italy and brought back souvenirs"

But what does it say?!?!?! I hope it's like those other wooden notes they found that were preserved that was a wife yelling at her husband to come home from the tavern.

3 downvotes. Did people miss the whole part about them finding a mammoth that was butchered that dates back to 37yka?!

I've always suspected that humans migrated to the America's long before the accepted time frame. It's great to see more evidence being uncovered. 37kya is a massive jump back! I'm guessing they were just following the herds, and they might have followed them right back out or died out.

Natural disasters cause the balance in nature to go awry. This could mean that feeding grounds for normal pests are disturbed so they seek new areas through migration. Locusts coming to areas they've never been historically reported. Small mammals who carry fleas and ticks with disease will look for the easiest food available. If hundreds of thousands of people die, and so quickly that they can't be buried properly, this now will spread disease from the decaying bodies, plus the wildlife that feeds on them. an increase in flies and other insects comes to mind which we know spread bacteria and disease. You also have no humans to clean up and keep rats and mice from getting into the grain supply. In medieval Europe and up to the plague of London in the 17th century, cats and dogs were killed as people thought they were dirty and spread disease. This makes the rat population boom. In that specific case, the plaque was spread from fleas on the rats. More rats, more plaque. Natural disasters have been spreading disease since we have existed.

Sorry but that would only be true if iron was replacing bronze at the end of the bronze age. Yes yes but it's the end of the bronze age though right? Wrong. Bronze would go on being used as the dominant metal for 700 years, longer in some remote areas. At the beginning of the Iron age, there was barely any Iron, anywhere.

The etymology of the terms in our language yes.

Queen Victoria was crowned empress of India. More as a title to flatter her, but its technically correct because she was the figured head monarch of distinct countries/peoples.

The term emperor usually means you rule over various different lands and semi autonomous regions as an overlord. Even if you look at the tetrarchy, each of the emperors ruled over multiple provinces, with their Caesar being their number 2, and sometimes ruling over the lesser parts of that regions. Pretty much after the fall of rome, the term emperor returned to meaning "leader of the world".

My names Brutus, I'm not trying to stab you, just trying to scratch your back. ;)

That isn't where that system originated. It goes back to the Persians, mycaneans, Egyptians, and nearly the whole civilized history of the near east. Probably the most recorded widespread Era of this was the middle to late bronze age. It was an ever changing patch work of large empires with their "kings of the world" imposing their authority over smaller kings of territories. The tradition goes back as far as the sumerians. Another example is when the hittite emperor writes to the mycanean king and calls him a "great king" and differentiates between that kings Control over his petty kings. The same can be seen between Egypt and the hittites in the treaty of kadesh.

There were greek mercenaries in the Persian army, not to mention the other Greek populations the Persians were overlords of. Not all Greeks were against the Persians. Also, after the war, themistokles was later ostracized and served the Persians for the rest of his life. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Themistocles

Go to the sub section titled "Greeks in exile to the achamaned empire" I'm sure you could find more info for other Greeks serving the Persians before the war following that source