Royal_Bumblebee_

Royal_Bumblebee_ t1_iycti75 wrote

Reply to Ancient Ukrainian “megasites” may have been the world’s first cities, challenging long-held views on the beginnings of urbanism by marketrent

notice that this article was written in 2020.

In for example London when buildings were destroyed during the WW2 blitz... many new archeological discoveries were made amongst the rubble. in particular there is a famous ancient roman temple to the god Mithras.

I wonder what if anything might be found from the recent bombing in ukraine. Very sad, but also imagine if they found further evidence of very ancient cities in Ukraine... would hurt Putin's stated aim of rendering all ukrainian history and culture as a subset of Russia's, and it would be done due to discoveries made from the destruction wrought by his bombs.

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Royal_Bumblebee_ t1_iycstni wrote

Reply to Scientists Reconstruct Face of 19th-Century Man Accused of Being a Vampire by That-Situation-4262

so they dug his bones up and placed the thigh bones over his chest to prevent him from walking around should he come back to life as a vampire-zombie and start killing everyone!?

interesting that he died of tuberculosis. he would have coughed up blood toward the end. I wonder if that played into the idea that he was a vampire... i.e. often have blood around and in his mouth.

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Royal_Bumblebee_ t1_iycqcsp wrote

Reply to Why Isn’t the New Testament in Latin? by ItaloSvevo111

Greek was the language most educated people spoke and was often used as the language of choice amongst educated people within the roman empire. Certainly by the time of the early church, the Eastern roman empire was the more powerful and culturally significant, and Greek was the more popular language there

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Royal_Bumblebee_ t1_ivukib0 wrote

Reply to They fled persecution in Nazi Germany. Then the British put them behind barbed wire by lanzkron

it is a little known aspect of ww2 in britain that many people of italian/german...etc heritage were arrested and detained during the war.

it was called defense regulation 18B

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Defence_Regulation_18B

I incidentally found out that Darby Sabini was detained under this law. For anyone who is a fan of the TV show Peaky Blinders, he was the Italian mobster character from the first season.

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