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LingcodKilla posted:“Cannon fodder, a story of a pike square.” 
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All the Roman obelisks have little footnotes about how they were moved from Egypt during the 1st - 3rd centuries, and then rediscovered around the city during the 1500's. How do you lose a 100+ foot long obelisk?
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Feb 7, 2018 02:41
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If I had to guess, they fell over, then a century of wind/garbage covered them up, then they were found by building crews.
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Ghetto Prince posted:All the Roman obelisks have little footnotes about how they were moved from Egypt during the 1st - 3rd centuries, and then rediscovered around the city during the 1500's. Same way you lose a war against the Goths
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Feb 7, 2018 05:09
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LingcodKilla posted:You offend the Gods? The wheels of justice turn slowly but still they turn, Constantine.
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Zopotantor posted:By an actual Egyptologist, who can read hieroglyphs and sometimes takes a timeout to go digging. This podcast doesn't gently caress around. It's legitimately the best history podcast. The dude even went and rerecorded all his early episodes so you don't have to suffer through the normal growing pains.
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Koramei posted:It's legitimately the best history podcast. The dude even went and rerecorded all his early episodes so you don't have to suffer through the normal growing pains. This is false in a world with inward empire and when diplomacy fails exists. It is a great podcast though
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Koramei posted:It's legitimately the best history podcast. The dude even went and rerecorded all his early episodes so you don't have to suffer through the normal growing pains. Just to be clear, this one? https://egyptianhistorypodcast.com/
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Ghetto Prince posted:All the Roman obelisks have little footnotes about how they were moved from Egypt during the 1st - 3rd centuries, and then rediscovered around the city during the 1500's. Let me tell you about a little thing called MH370.
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Safety Biscuits posted:Let me tell you about a little thing called MH370. On one hand, a 100 foot long object lost somewhere in 2-3 square miles in a heavily populated area of land. On the other, a 200-300 foot long object lost somewhere in thousands of square miles of sea in the middle of nowhere, and a mile or two underwater. Let's just think about that for a moment.
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Hemp Knight posted:On one hand, a 100 foot long object lost somewhere in 2-3 square miles in a heavily populated area of land. Well MH370 had radar tracking and stuff
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Did they ever check the black boxes in those obelisks
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Grand Prize Winner posted:Did they ever check the black boxes in those obelisks What a curiously sinister phrase.
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their roommate pushed a couch cushion in front of them when the landlord came over and they just forgot afterwards
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Dazzle paint and "yeah that's trajan's other column"
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Edgar Allen Ho posted:There is a book called "Red Land, Black Land" by someone I don't remember that focuses on the daily life and beliefs of ancient egyptians. It was a really fun read. This is Barbara Mertz and her books are fantastic. I always assume people think the Egyptians were obsessed with death because their burial practices are so well-known. So much funerary architecture and infrastructure survive.
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Mad Hamish posted:This is Barbara Mertz and her books are fantastic.
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HEY GUNS posted:their roommate pushed a couch cushion in front of them when the landlord came over and they just forgot afterwards Darn it, you're making me think of a whole Three's Company" parody with Boethius, Cyprianus, and Albinus trying to disguise their obelisk as a couch because their landlord, Theo, has a "No obelisks" rule in the apartment, that ends with Theo sitting on it and complaining how hard their couch is. The recurring theme of the show would be them trying to hide the fact that they're Athanasians from a suspicious Theo, who only rents to Arians.
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Grand Prize Winner posted:Did they ever check the black boxes in those obelisks Why don't they just make the whole obelisk out of the black box stuff 🤔
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Well, that's just silly. You can't make an obelisk that's box-shaped.
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What if you make it from a box that's an obelisk-shaped box?
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So this is why those monkeys were confused and upset
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skasion posted:Crassus was also possibly eligible to dedicate spolia opima, according to Cassius Dio, but did not in the event do so. The case however that Crassus intended to and Caesar shot him down is overstated, often by the school of thought that understates Caesar’s military and political dominance and looks at the senate and individual senators as a persistent threat to him. There is no evidence that Crassus ever himself claimed the right to dedicate the spolia, there is no evidence that the senate ever discussed it, and if the idea even occurred to him, he may well have judged it impolitic to pursue. Personally, I suspect it's because Crassus simply couldn't bear the idea of giving away some expensive kit.
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GreyjoyBastard posted:Personally, I suspect it's because Crassus simply couldn't bear the idea of giving away some expensive kit. This was not the famous tightwad but his grandson. Then again, Romans did believe traits like that ran in families.
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http://www.pnas.org/content/110/6/2205 Pretty good genetic potato-related evidence Polynesians visited South America at least a few centuries pre-Columbus.
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What are some of the best primary/secondary sources on the Crisis of the Third Century out there? I've been binging Duncans podcast for the last 2 months and the whole era is incredibly fascinating; hearing about the social and economic changes hitting Rome all within a single lifetime. How on-point is Duncans storytelling on this? It was my understanding that the 40-so years of the Crisis are the closest Rome gets to "lost history" outside the Kingdom era, but Duncan goes into some pretty wild detail.
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Unfortunately it's sweet potato based history, not potato based history
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Grand Fromage posted:http://www.pnas.org/content/110/6/2205 In potato veritas.
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cheetah7071 posted:Unfortunately it's sweet potato based history, not potato based history In batatas veritatus
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Grand Fromage posted:http://www.pnas.org/content/110/6/2205 There also appears to be the subtext that the Polynesians returned home with the sweet taters after visiting, e.g. this wasn't a one-way "just set up camp where you hit land" thing so much as a trade route.
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According to my biotech classes, sweet potatoes are the single most nutrient rich big crop if you are forced to rely on just one product. Smart polynesians.
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AriadneThread posted:the potato reveals all https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bPsY_nhTtxg
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This was what I expected it to be, thank you
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To what extent did the Parthians, and then the Sassanids, see themselves as the heirs to the Achaemenid Empire?
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The sassanids did for sure. I'm not sure about the Parthians because they weren't ethnically Persian but I'm not sure if that's stopped anyone before
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cheetah7071 posted:The sassanids did for sure. I'm not sure about the Parthians because they weren't ethnically Persian but I'm not sure if that's stopped anyone before From what I remember the Parthians considered themselves a different group that owned the Persians but adopted some of their ways. Sort of a Mongol situation.
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