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This would suggest that farming had originally been brought from Europe by colonists who arrived in the Thames, and that it had swiftly been adopted by the natives: but none of this is securely proved by the better dating. All told, the problem of how the Neolithic arrived in Britain does not seem to have been solved at the time of writing; and
... See moreRonald Hutton • Pagan Britain
They are Iron Age people – their story spans most of the first millennium BC, from the end of the Bronze Age to the arrival of Romans in Celtic lands. They left virtually no written records, but they made stunning art, knew the secrets of metallurgy and had their own myths and religion.
Alice Roberts • The Celts: Search for a Civilization
El papiro de Sept (Spanish Edition)

History
When the end came, as it did after centuries of cultural and technological evolution, most of the civilized and international world of the Mediterranean regions came to a dramatic halt in a vast area stretching from what is now Italy to Afghanistan and from Turkey down to Egypt. Large empires and small kingdoms, which had taken centuries to evolve,
... See moreEric H. Cline • 1177 B.C.
Beyond virtual reality, mixed reality is also a valuable tool for extending real-life experiences into the past. We can save historical sites like Pompeii from being littered with informational plaques and navigation signs, offering augmented digital information instead. It’s a new form of travel, where ancient sites may be experienced as they
... See moreEric Redmond • Deep Tech: Demystifying the Breakthrough Technologies That Will Revolutionize Everything
Medieval Technology and Social Change
The Copernican Revolution
Life in the English Country House
Painting and Experience in Fifteenth Century Italy
Anabasis
The Quest for El Cid
The World We Have Lost
Despite all those unknowns, archaeologists instantly realised that the recognisable RECEI – in the dative case, meaning ‘to or for the king’ – supports what Roman writers themselves had claimed: that for two and a half centuries, up to the end of the sixth century BCE, the city of Rome had been under the control of ‘kings’. Livy, among others,
... See moreMary Beard • SPQR
In fact, what jumps out from the materials in the Rapanu and Urtenu archives is the tremendous amount of international interconnection that apparently still existed in the Eastern Mediterranean even at the end of the Late Bronze Age. Moreover, it is clear from the few texts published from the Urtenu archive that these international connections
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