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The roots of ancient Rome's gladiator fights (atlasobscura.com)

a year ago | diodorus | atlasobscura.com | frontpage

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Scholars now argue that early nomadic empires were the architects of modernity (newyorker.com)

a year ago | diodorus | newyorker.com | frontpage

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'The Egyptian Book of the Dead' Review: An Ancient Guide to the Afterlife (wsj.com)

a year ago | diodorus | wsj.com | frontpage

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What lies beneath the Vatican of the Zapotecs? (nytimes.com)

a year ago | diodorus | nytimes.com | frontpage

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Victorian romantic rituals and charms (historytoday.com)

a year ago | diodorus | historytoday.com | best

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Why the Oracle of Delphi Still Beguiles (historytoday.com)

a year ago | diodorus | historytoday.com | newest

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Introduction to Legion: life in the Roman army (britishmuseum.org)

a year ago | diodorus | britishmuseum.org | best

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How did Christianity change the Roman Empire? (historytoday.com)

a year ago | diodorus | historytoday.com | best

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After the Plague: Health and History in Medieval England (aftertheplague.org)

a year ago | diodorus | aftertheplague.org | frontpage

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The Ten Best History Books of 2023 (smithsonianmag.com)

a year ago | diodorus | smithsonianmag.com | newest

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The camel, the rope, and the needle's eye (kiwihellenist.blogspot.com)

a year ago | diodorus | blogspot.com | best

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Resilience, innovation and collapse of settlement networks in Bronze Age Europe (plos.org)

a year ago | diodorus | plos.org | best

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Mathematics Built the Modern World (worksinprogress.co)

a year ago | diodorus | worksinprogress.co | newest

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Power and Populism in Ancient Greek Courts (historytoday.com)

a year ago | diodorus | historytoday.com | frontpage

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Mary Beard traces the profile of the Roman emperor (washingtonpost.com)

a year ago | diodorus | washingtonpost.com | frontpage

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Codex documenting Aztec culture now digitized (hyperallergic.com)

a year ago | diodorus | hyperallergic.com | best

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Cippi of Melqart (wikipedia.org)

a year ago | diodorus | wikipedia.org | frontpage

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Large-scale violence in Late Neolithic Western Europe based on skeletal evidence (nature.com)

a year ago | diodorus | nature.com | best

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Cleopatra's Daughter (2018) (historytoday.com)

a year ago | diodorus | historytoday.com | best

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Biomarkers to detect the heating of fatty acids in residues from pottery use (sciencedirect.com)

a year ago | diodorus | sciencedirect.com | frontpage

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Treasure of Begram (wikipedia.org)

a year ago | diodorus | wikipedia.org | newest

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In ancient Egypt, soul houses and false doors connected the living and the dead (atlasobscura.com)

a year ago | diodorus | atlasobscura.com | best

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The Edith Hamilton Way (newyorker.com)

a year ago | diodorus | newyorker.com | frontpage

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Archaeologists Uncover 9,500-Year-Old Woven Baskets and Europe’s Oldest Sandals (smithsonianmag.com)

a year ago | diodorus | smithsonianmag.com | frontpage

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Greek Temples Made of Wood (philipsteadman.com)

a year ago | diodorus | philipsteadman.com | frontpage

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Vergil’s secret message (aeon.co)

a year ago | diodorus | aeon.co | best

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Who invented the alphabet? (asor.org)

a year ago | diodorus | asor.org | best

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Biomolecular analysis of early Viking Age hair combs from Hedeby (cambridge.org)

a year ago | diodorus | cambridge.org | frontpage

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Incorrect casual assumptions (thonyc.wordpress.com)

a year ago | diodorus | wordpress.com | best

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How were gladiators portrayed in ancient Rome? (worldhistory.substack.com)

a year ago | diodorus | substack.com | best

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Hoxne Hoard (wikipedia.org)

a year ago | diodorus | wikipedia.org | frontpage

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What Ancient Goat Teeth Reveal About Animal Care (sapiens.org)

a year ago | diodorus | sapiens.org | newest

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Ancient fashion: 3,200-year-old pants on Chinese mummy (bigthink.com)

2 years ago | diodorus | bigthink.com | frontpage

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Small prey compelled prehistoric humans to produce appropriate hunting weapons (phys.org)

2 years ago | diodorus | phys.org | best

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What Happened at an Ancient Roman Funeral? (getty.edu)

2 years ago | diodorus | getty.edu | frontpage

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Investigating intentional cranial modification in 3rd to 7th century CE Japan (plos.org)

2 years ago | diodorus | plos.org | frontpage

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Curated cauldrons: feasting practices in the Caucasian steppe (cell.com)

2 years ago | diodorus | cell.com | frontpage

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Digging on the Dark Side of the Volcano (archaeology.org)

2 years ago | diodorus | archaeology.org | frontpage

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Homer and His Iliad (historytoday.com)

2 years ago | diodorus | historytoday.com | best

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12,000-year-old sequins hint at a shared culture in Indonesian islands (cosmosmagazine.com)

2 years ago | diodorus | cosmosmagazine.com | best

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Intact Giant Panda Skeleton Discovered in Chinese Emperor’s 2k-Year-Old Tomb (smithsonianmag.com)

2 years ago | diodorus | smithsonianmag.com | frontpage

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An ancient solar flare illuminated the start of the Viking Age (sciencenews.org)

2 years ago | diodorus | sciencenews.org | frontpage

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Ruins of Emperor Nero’s Theater Discovered Near Vatican (scientificamerican.com)

2 years ago | diodorus | scientificamerican.com | best

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Long live the King of Kings Accession ritual in ancient Persia (britishmuseum.org)

2 years ago | diodorus | britishmuseum.org | frontpage

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Reading Ancient Scrolls (caseyhandmer.wordpress.com)

2 years ago | diodorus | wordpress.com | best

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War Music: Homer and His Iliad (literaryreview.co.uk)

2 years ago | diodorus | literaryreview.co.uk | best

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All that glitters is not gold – emulating luxury in the ancient Greek world (britishmuseum.org)

2 years ago | diodorus | britishmuseum.org | best

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Flexible Glass in Tiberius’ Rome (2011) (strangehistory.net)

2 years ago | diodorus | strangehistory.net | frontpage

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Remains of Chihuahua-Sized Dog Unearthed at Roman Britain Villa (smithsonianmag.com)

2 years ago | diodorus | smithsonianmag.com | frontpage

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The Emperors for the Job (historytoday.com)

2 years ago | diodorus | historytoday.com | frontpage

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Athanasius Kircher and the Hieroglyphic Sphinx (2013) (publicdomainreview.org)

2 years ago | diodorus | publicdomainreview.org | frontpage

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A Medieval Age of Disruption (lareviewofbooks.org)

2 years ago | diodorus | lareviewofbooks.org | frontpage

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Kunga: Ancient Mesopotamians created the world’s first hybrid animal (bigthink.com)

2 years ago | diodorus | bigthink.com | best

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Loss of Mid in English: Free Peasantry and Their Linguistic Advantage (wiley.com)

2 years ago | diodorus | wiley.com | frontpage

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Merseburg Incantations (wikipedia.org)

2 years ago | diodorus | wikipedia.org | newest

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Africa’s Merchant Kings (archaeology.org)

2 years ago | diodorus | archaeology.org | frontpage

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The horrors of Pompeii (aeon.co)

2 years ago | diodorus | aeon.co | best

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Exit Hector, again and again: How different translators reveal the ‘Iliad’ anew (nytimes.com)

2 years ago | diodorus | nytimes.com | frontpage

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From fossils to mind (nature.com)

2 years ago | diodorus | nature.com | frontpage

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The site where Caesar was assassinated has been opened to the public (nytimes.com)

2 years ago | diodorus | nytimes.com | newest

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Ancient Egyptian followers of a deity called Bes may have used hallucinogens (arstechnica.com)

2 years ago | diodorus | arstechnica.com | best

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She Measures the Heavens and Outlines the Earth (laphamsquarterly.org)

2 years ago | diodorus | laphamsquarterly.org | frontpage

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All Those Naked Greeks (aeon.co)

2 years ago | diodorus | aeon.co | best

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The Lost City (historytoday.com)

2 years ago | diodorus | historytoday.com | frontpage

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Review of Epictetus: The Complete Works (lrb.co.uk)

2 years ago | diodorus | lrb.co.uk | best

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Domicide: At a Neolithic site, buildings that were intentionally buried

2 years ago | diodorus | ycombinator.com | frontpage

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To Pay Rent in Medieval England, Catch Some Eels (atlasobscura.com)

2 years ago | diodorus | atlasobscura.com | frontpage

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The mysterious dodecahedrons of the Roman Empire (atlasobscura.com)

2 years ago | diodorus | atlasobscura.com | best

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Peruvian archaeologists unearth 500-year-old Inca ceremonial bath (reuters.com)

2 years ago | diodorus | reuters.com | best

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Stone age animal urine could solve a mystery about technological development (scientificamerican.com)

2 years ago | diodorus | scientificamerican.com | frontpage

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Ptolemy’s Treatise on the Meteoroscope Recovered (springer.com)

2 years ago | diodorus | springer.com | frontpage

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Peru's Great Urban Experiment (archaeology.org)

2 years ago | diodorus | archaeology.org | best

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Mayan ball game scoreboard thought to be over 1k years old found in Mexico (theguardian.com)

2 years ago | diodorus | theguardian.com | best

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Roman architectural revolution (wikipedia.org)

2 years ago | diodorus | wikipedia.org | frontpage

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Epicurus for Our Time (lareviewofbooks.org)

2 years ago | diodorus | lareviewofbooks.org | best

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A little-known French archaeologist, finally in the limelight (washingtonpost.com)

2 years ago | diodorus | washingtonpost.com | frontpage

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Science Museums Take Stock of 1.1B Objects from Around the World (nytimes.com)

2 years ago | diodorus | nytimes.com | best

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Jewelry made from beetles may have been a status symbol 2k years ago (atlasobscura.com)

2 years ago | diodorus | atlasobscura.com | frontpage

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The Pocahontas Exception (lrb.co.uk)

2 years ago | diodorus | lrb.co.uk | frontpage

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"The Earth Transformed" Review - why humans have always been under the weather (theguardian.com)

2 years ago | diodorus | theguardian.com | frontpage

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A Body That’s Divine (nybooks.com)

2 years ago | diodorus | nybooks.com | newest

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What was the impact of Julius Caesar’s murder? (historytoday.com)

2 years ago | diodorus | historytoday.com | best

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The Lion, the Land Bridge, and the New World (hakaimagazine.com)

2 years ago | diodorus | hakaimagazine.com | newest

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Bringing the Cotton Fragments to Life (blogs.bl.uk)

2 years ago | diodorus | bl.uk | frontpage

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Ancient DNA Reveals History of Hunter-Gatherers in Europe (nytimes.com)

2 years ago | diodorus | nytimes.com | newest

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The Paratethys Sea Was the Largest Lake in Earth’s History (atlasobscura.com)

2 years ago | diodorus | atlasobscura.com | best

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Who Made the First Stone Tool Kits? (smithsonianmag.com)

2 years ago | diodorus | smithsonianmag.com | frontpage

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19th C. Paris turned the “hysterical” women of the Salpêtrière into a spectacle (lareviewofbooks.org)

2 years ago | diodorus | lareviewofbooks.org | frontpage

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Archaeological digs happening in the sky (theguardian.com)

2 years ago | diodorus | theguardian.com | best

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Flesh and Page: The laborious process of making parchment (laphamsquarterly.org)

2 years ago | diodorus | laphamsquarterly.org | frontpage

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Anaximander and the Nature of Science (theguardian.com)

2 years ago | diodorus | theguardian.com | best

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4k-Year-Old Mummy May Be Egypt’s Oldest (hyperallergic.com)

2 years ago | diodorus | hyperallergic.com | frontpage

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Revealing the Risqué Art of Pompeii’s House of the Vettii (atlasobscura.com)

2 years ago | diodorus | atlasobscura.com | frontpage

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Known Unknowables (aeon.co)

2 years ago | diodorus | aeon.co | best

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Page Turners: Literature in Ancient Egypt (britishmuseum.org)

2 years ago | diodorus | britishmuseum.org | frontpage

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Alexander the Great versus the Elephants (blogs.bl.uk)

2 years ago | diodorus | bl.uk | best

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Did Ancient Egypt have a pigeon problem? (atlasobscura.com)

2 years ago | diodorus | atlasobscura.com | best

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The Archive Moles (prospectmagazine.co.uk)

2 years ago | diodorus | prospectmagazine.co.uk | frontpage

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Runestone discovered in Norway may be the world’s oldest (smithsonianmag.com)

2 years ago | diodorus | smithsonianmag.com | best

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Archaeologists Unearth 3k-Year-Old Wishing Well in Germany (smithsonianmag.com)

2 years ago | diodorus | smithsonianmag.com | frontpage