After the 1963 March on Washington, the FBI singled out Martin Luther King Jr. as a major COINTELPRO target (medium.com)
Ancient Egyptians Tried to Surgically Treat Cancer, Study Finds (gizmodo.com)
Inside Roman Emperors’ Outrageously Lavish Dinner Parties (www.atlasobscura.com)
Archaeologists Found an ‘Anomaly’ Near the Pyramids That May Reveal an Ancient Portal (www.popularmechanics.com)
Wreck of famed World War II sub USS Harder found off the Philippines (edition.cnn.com)
The Day Sweden Switched from Driving on the Left Side (Sept 3, 1967) (lemmy.world)
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Scarab From Space - Archaeology Magazine (www.archaeology.org)
OG pointy boots (lemmy.world)
The Forgotten History of the World's First Trans Clinic [The Institute for Sexual Research, founded by Doctor Magnus Hirschfeld in Berlin, Germany (1919-1933)] (web.archive.org)
“Love is as varied as people are.”...
Great Mystery of How Ancient Egyptians Built The Pyramids Finally Appears Solved (www.sciencealert.com)
Egypt's Pyramids May Have Been Built on a Long-Lost Branch of the Nile River (gizmodo.com)
A ‘plague’ comes before the fall: lessons from Roman history (thebulletin.org)
Pre-print from David Reich et al provides new details and solid dates for the emergence of the Yamnaya, likely proving Indo-Anatolian hypothesis. (pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov)
The Yamnaya archaeological complex appeared around 3300BCE across the steppes north of the Black and Caspian Seas, and by 3000BCE reached its maximal extent from Hungary in the west to Kazakhstan in the east. To localize the ancestral and geographical origins of the Yamnaya among the diverse Eneolithic people that preceded them,...
Civil War General William T. Sherman's sword and other relics to be auctioned off in Ohio (apnews.com)
Great American hero items to be in the hands of a private person. Just upset its not gonna be me.
MY YEARS, MY WEALTH (lemmy.ml)
Embark on a journey through the personal reflections of a life rich in experience and contemplation. This narrative delves into the true meaning of wealth, beyond the material, and invites readers to consider the legacy we weave through our years. Herein lies a story that resonates across generations, urging us to ponder the...
The Russian Woman!
This article is a heartfelt ode to the resilience and fortitude of Russian women, whose contributions have been pivotal yet often overlooked. It’s a narrative that weaves through personal stories and historical events, shedding light on the silent endurance that has shaped a nation....
The Banana Wars: How the US Plundered Central America (www.thecollector.com)
The Banana Wars were a series of US military interventions in Latin America from 1898 to 1934. Why are they relatively understudied, and why are they called banana wars?
Was the Stone Age Actually the Wood Age? (archive.ph)
Ramses III Defeats the Sea Peoples
Those who reached my boundary,...
DON'T CREATE AN IDOL FOR YOURSELF
The TV channel “Russia,” on the initiative of N. S. Mikhalkov, is showing a project called “the main elections.” I don’t quite understand these elections. They show on the screen 12 people who, according to the project leaders, have glorified Russia the most with their deeds, and whose name will be identical to the...
Freedom of Speech!?
Yes, the right to freedom of speech is a great achievement of the bourgeois-democratic revolution. Indeed, such a right contributes significantly to the political and economic development of the state. I understand this well due to my age, experience serving in the Soviet Army, and my status as a historian. I have lived from the...
Plato's Burial Place and Details of His Last Night Revealed in Carbonized Scroll From Herculaneum (gizmodo.com)
Abraha (www.trustpast.net)
*The first thing you should know is that Abyssinia was located in Ethiopia with its capital in Addis Ababa, and Abyssinia included countries such as Djibouti, Somalia, Eritrea, Sudan and Kenya, all of this area was called Abyssinia, and it was the third most powerful kingdom on earth after the Romans and Persians. Another thing...