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The Forgotten History of Gay Entrapment: Routine arrests were the linchpin of a social system intended to humiliate LGBTQ people

theatlantic.com

Submitted by PhillipCrawfordJr t3_10jdpnx on January 23, 2023 at 2:27 PM

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Reassembling a 15th century ship: "The world's largest 3-D puzzle"

cbsnews.com

Submitted by ArtOak t3_10j6ui9 on January 23, 2023 at 7:33 AM

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‘Which sites should be saved, and which sites should be allowed to decay?’ — Climate change is accelerating, amplifying existing risks and creating new ones, the consequences of which could be devastating for the global archaeological record

cambridge.org

Submitted by marketrent t3_10i8gyk on January 22, 2023 at 2:17 AM

8 comments

Simple/Short/Silly History Questions Saturday!

Submitted by AutoModerator t3_10hqpa5 on January 21, 2023 at 1:00 PM

43 comments

Did ancient Greeks think that observation prevented observation of the paranormal / paradoxa?

Submitted by Zestyclose-Advisor71 t3_10glude on January 20, 2023 at 3:15 AM

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Prehistoric Fashion: Cut Marks On Ancient Bones Reveal The Trends 320.000 Years Ago - Archaeology Magazine

archaeology-magazine.com

Submitted by mikaelnorqvist t3_10g3gku on January 19, 2023 at 2:45 PM

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How donkeys changed the course of human history

bbc.com

Submitted by Vailhem t3_10fzgor on January 19, 2023 at 11:33 AM

15 comments

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Archaeologists Discover 3,000-Year-Old Ritual Wishing Well Filled With Over 100 Well-Preserved Artefacts

ananova.news

Submitted by UAVet t3_10fwj6f on January 19, 2023 at 8:26 AM

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The Black Death may not have been spread by rats after all

theconversation.com

Submitted by Rear-gunner t3_10fwh62 on January 19, 2023 at 8:22 AM

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Bookclub and Sources Wednesday!

Submitted by AutoModerator t3_10f5ogv on January 18, 2023 at 12:00 PM

38 comments

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World’s oldest rune stone found in Norway, archaeologists believe

sciencenorway.no

Submitted by danishistorian t3_10ebe4w on January 17, 2023 at 12:44 PM

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America's First Muslims Were Slaves

voanews.com

Submitted by Breab1 t3_10e6r8q on January 17, 2023 at 8:08 AM

30 comments

I think that the term Byzantines is rightly used for adressing the Eastern Roman Empire.

Submitted by VipsaniusAgrippa25 t3_10bp7ru on January 14, 2023 at 2:05 PM

76 comments

Simple/Short/Silly History Questions Saturday!

Submitted by AutoModerator t3_10bnvrk on January 14, 2023 at 1:00 PM

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Uncovering Hidden Links in the Origins of Iraq's Instability

Submitted by No-Particular7709 t3_10bmf0y on January 14, 2023 at 11:33 AM

10 comments

‘When something like this comes up where we’re both excited, but also that sorrowful that we lost so much.’ — A Māori tribe in New Zealand is calling for the return of treasured artefacts listed for sale by the auction house Sotheby’s

theguardian.com

Submitted by marketrent t3_10bg2qg on January 14, 2023 at 5:05 AM

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New archival findings on the earliest ownership of the Voynich Manuscript

theartnewspaper.com

Submitted by stegu2 t3_10b7t47 on January 13, 2023 at 10:37 PM

35 comments

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Conservation of Spanish Armada invasion maps reveals red ink details were added hundreds of years later

theartnewspaper.com

Submitted by ArtOak t3_10apbtk on January 13, 2023 at 8:25 AM

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Betsy Heard, the Mixed Race Woman Who Dominated the West African Slave Trade in the 18th Century

talkafricana.com

Submitted by Vailhem t3_10ah0vt on January 13, 2023 at 1:19 AM

24 comments

A question/debate I don't see answered about German WW2 war economy

Submitted by KingHunter150 t3_10agrj9 on January 13, 2023 at 1:08 AM

20 comments

Discovery of a temple of Poseidon located at the Kleidi site near Samikon in Greece

phys.org

Submitted by MeatballDom t3_10afhkb on January 13, 2023 at 12:13 AM

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What was the State of Arabic Language Literature in the Ottoman Empire?

Submitted by McGillis_is_a_Char t3_10a3uri on January 12, 2023 at 4:31 PM

37 comments

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Contemporary Reactions to Colonialism

Submitted by J1m1983 t3_109zfnr on January 12, 2023 at 1:17 PM

21 comments

Were muslim armies harder to maintain in the field?

Submitted by DJacobAP t3_109i328 on January 11, 2023 at 10:29 PM

150 comments

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Of the 270,000 photographs commissioned by the US Farm Security Administration to document the Great Depression, more than a third were “killed”.

publicdomainreview.org

Submitted by VinkyStagina t3_109ex9v on January 11, 2023 at 8:25 PM

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