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The Emperor and the Sun King (blogs.bl.uk)

2 years ago | diodorus | bl.uk | frontpage

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Boots the Bishop: On Albert Magnus (lrb.co.uk)

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

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Are ‘Dark Ages’ Inevitable? (historytoday.com)

2 years ago | diodorus | historytoday.com | best

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The Family Lives of the Last Neanderthals (sapiens.org)

2 years ago | diodorus | sapiens.org | newest

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How different the world would look if Neanderthals had prevailed (theconversation.com)

2 years ago | diodorus | theconversation.com | frontpage

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Rewriting the Story of Ötzi, the Murdered Iceman (smithsonianmag.com)

2 years ago | diodorus | smithsonianmag.com | frontpage

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Tattoos on ancient Egyptian women appear to ask for protection during childbirth (phys.org)

2 years ago | diodorus | phys.org | best

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Tutankhamun’s Ostriches (historytoday.com)

2 years ago | diodorus | historytoday.com | frontpage

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The Malice of Time: Neglect history at your peril (laphamsquarterly.org)

2 years ago | diodorus | laphamsquarterly.org | frontpage

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Review of the Mad Emperor: Heliogabalus and the Decadence of Rome (literaryreview.co.uk)

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

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Vast and innumerable throngs of the ancient dead (laphamsquarterly.org)

2 years ago | diodorus | laphamsquarterly.org | best

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Ancient dung reveals early evidence for animal tending (uconn.edu)

2 years ago | diodorus | uconn.edu | frontpage

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Profitable to Posterity: Who should write history? (laphamsquarterly.org)

2 years ago | diodorus | laphamsquarterly.org | frontpage

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The Death of Seneca (historytoday.com)

2 years ago | diodorus | historytoday.com | newest

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Elites tried to monopolize hunting (mitpress.mit.edu)

2 years ago | diodorus | mit.edu | frontpage

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Policing the Necropolis (laphamsquarterly.org)

2 years ago | diodorus | laphamsquarterly.org | frontpage

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Eureka Finding the key to ancient Egypt (britishmuseum.org)

2 years ago | diodorus | britishmuseum.org | frontpage

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The Calamities of Others: An ancient historian aims for the big picture (laphamsquarterly.org)

2 years ago | diodorus | laphamsquarterly.org | frontpage

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Drone photos reveal an early Mesopotamian city made of marsh islands (sciencenews.org)

2 years ago | diodorus | sciencenews.org | frontpage

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Findings show that the Vikings' self-image was influenced by Ancient Rome (phys.org)

2 years ago | diodorus | phys.org | best

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Hilary Mantel, Historian (bostonreview.net)

2 years ago | diodorus | bostonreview.net | frontpage

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The Controversy over English King Richard III's Remains (bbc.com)

2 years ago | diodorus | bbc.com | frontpage

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A Pardoner’s Tale (blogs.bl.uk)

2 years ago | diodorus | bl.uk | frontpage

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Archaeologists hail ‘dream discovery’ as sarcophagus is unearthed near Cairo (theguardian.com)

2 years ago | diodorus | theguardian.com | best

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Mercenaries Were More Common in Greek Warfare Than Ancient Historians Let On (smithsonianmag.com)

2 years ago | diodorus | smithsonianmag.com | frontpage

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The Irish Reach (drb.ie)

2 years ago | diodorus | drb.ie | best

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Alpine Crystal Hunters (archaeology.org)

2 years ago | diodorus | archaeology.org | frontpage

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Nagorno-Karabakh’s Myth of Ancient Hatreds (2020)

2 years ago | diodorus | historytoday.com | best

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Researchers piece together the story of a Roman city, one artifact at a time

2 years ago | diodorus | phys.org | frontpage

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Easy as ABC: What were the origins of the alphabet, before the Greeks?

2 years ago | diodorus | historytoday.com | newest

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A Long-Lost Branch of the Nile Helped in Building Egypt’s Pyramids

2 years ago | diodorus | nytimes.com | best

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The Origin of the 30k-Year-Old Venus of Willendorf

2 years ago | diodorus | discovermagazine.com | newest

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Raw material choices and technical practices as indices of cultural change

2 years ago | diodorus | plos.org | frontpage

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Life in Litter: Mariana Castillo Deball’s Remarkable Roman Rubbish

2 years ago | diodorus | theguardian.com | newest

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Rock crystals found at Stone Age ceremonial site in England

2 years ago | diodorus | livescience.com | frontpage

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Learning to Spell in Linear B: Scribal Training in Mycenaean Pylos

2 years ago | diodorus | cambridge.org | best

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Peak Document and the Future of History (2020)

2 years ago | diodorus | oup.com | frontpage

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A Bibliographical Mystery Solved

2 years ago | diodorus | bl.uk | frontpage

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The Overlooked Indian Dynasties: On Anirudh Kanisetti’s “Lords of the Deccan”

2 years ago | diodorus | lareviewofbooks.org | best

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A complex of Native American rock mounds bears witness to ancient traditions

2 years ago | diodorus | archaeology.org | best

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Ancient herpes simplex 1 genomes reveal recent viral structure in Eurasia

2 years ago | diodorus | science.org | frontpage

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Ice Age children frolicked in 'giant sloth puddles,' footprints reveal

2 years ago | diodorus | livescience.com | newest