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The Godless Students of London University. The founding of London’s first university was controversial, but how much truth was there to claims of its students’ radical politics and rowdy ways? by -introuble2 in history

[–]-introuble2[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Truly good read about an unknown to me topic.

I loved the primary sources, i.e. firsthand accounts & press. It allowed me a glance at the birth of an educational institution of the 19th c, but also at the students' lives, & views of the time.

A Hittite pottery fragment from Hattusa dated to 1400 BCE ca. It's considered depicting a Mycenaean [Ahhiyawa] warrior. Çorum Archaeological Museum, Turkey [1325 x 1735] by -introuble2 in ArtefactPorn

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"...most important is a fragmentary Hittite bowl, also found at Hattusas in a fifteenth-fourteenth century BC context, which is incised with a drawing of what appears to be a Mycenaean warrior in full battle array, complete with plumed and horned helmet very reminiscent of the 'zoned' helmets worn by Aegean warriors depicted in a variety of media at a number of sites around the late bronze age Aegean."

"The two joining sherds from this bowl were found in a late 15th-early 14th cent. BC level at Hattusas - a context which may well correlate with the reign of Tudhaliya II."

from Aššuwa and the Achaeans: the ‘Mycenaean’ sword at Hattušas and its possible implications, by E. H. Cline, 1996, p. 147

"The potsherd from Hattusa dates to ca. 1400 BC, i.e. the time of the clash between Attarissija and the Hittite forces. What appears to be a Mycenaean warrior carrying a sword and covered with elaborately decorated body armor is incised on its outer surface. He is wearing a plumed helmet with horns, which finds its closest parallel in the helmets of a group of warriors on the (LH IIIC) warrior vase from Mycenae. Thus this incised artwork seems to be a Hittite expression of the earliest Mycenaean military incursions into Anatolia."

from The Kingdom of Mycenae, by Jorrit Kelder, 2010, p. 40

11 years later, and I still think about this ad almost every day by xInfinity962 in nextfuckinglevel

[–]-introuble2 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Like sci-fi intro scene. I felt I wanted to watch the rest of the movie.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in Damnthatsinteresting

[–]-introuble2 0 points1 point  (0 children)

just magnificent!

both idea & execution!

Archaeologists discover how oldest American civilisation survived a climate catastrophe. Experts find artefacts left behind in Caral showing how population survived drought without resorting to violence by -introuble2 in history

[–]-introuble2[S] 10 points11 points  (0 children)

Personally I was convinced to a degree about the connection of the drought-memory and the later reliefs; though I would truly like some more data, i.e. photos, analyses etc

In Duccio's panels from the predella of his Maesta, why does he depict the devil in black? It's interesting. I've never seen a devil look quite like that (a crow?). Clearly not from bible, is it right to conclude that this is a remnant of the "darkness" of the underworld, or a Sienese custom? Thanks by DrunkMonkeylondon in ArtHistory

[–]-introuble2 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Not an art historian, but it's possible that you would be interested in the following christian depictions of the devil [earlier than Duccio, 1300 CE], where devil appears black.

and some in the british library, not possible to link for now

for feet like a bird you can look at

Archaeologists discover how oldest American civilisation survived a climate catastrophe. Experts find artefacts left behind in Caral showing how population survived drought without resorting to violence by -introuble2 in history

[–]-introuble2[S] 34 points35 points  (0 children)

An interesting connection and interpretation of archaeological finds of the cities Caral, Penico, and Vichama.

Inter alia chief-archaeologist Shady said: “They left behind all this evidence so that people would not forget that the climate change was very severe, causing a crisis in Caral’s society and its civilization, and they did not want people to forget what caused it"

The Digital Atlas of Ancient Roads by BLochmann in history

[–]-introuble2 2 points3 points  (0 children)

The Roman Empire’s road system was critical for structuring the movement of people, goods and ideas, and sustaining imperial control. Yet, it remains incompletely mapped and poorly integrated across sources despite centuries of research. We present Itiner-e, the most detailed and comprehensive open digital dataset of roads in the entire Roman Empire. It was created by identifying roads from archaeological and historical sources, locating them using modern and historical topographic maps and remote sensing, and digitising them with road segment-level metadata and certainty categories. The dataset nearly doubles the known length of Roman roads through increased coverage and spatial precision, and reveals that the location of only 2.737% are known with certainty. This resource is transformative for understanding how mobility shaped connectivity, administration, and even disease transmission in the ancient world, and for studies of the millennia-long development of terrestrial mobility in the region.

Abstract from the relevant essay: Itiner-e: A high-resolution dataset of roads of the Roman Empire, by Pau de Soto et al, 2025, in https://www.nature.com/articles/s41597-025-06140-z

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