Did You Know?: Did Ancient Greeks And Romans Explore Iceland?
Iceland did not become a permanent place of settlement until the 9th century. The first inhabitants that built a long-term community on Iceland predominantly came from Norway, and later descendants of the original settlers were convinced that their ancestors’ exodus from the old homeland was a form of protest against the growing authority of King Harald Finehair (ruled approximately 860-940). It is clear that the Norsemen were the first settlers to turn Iceland into a long-term home. Yet, the question of if they were the first people to discover the island is another story. In fact, it is possible that Iceland may have been located by a Greek explorer as early as the 4th century BCE and that Romans had this information at their disposal during the time of the Roman occupation of Britain.
Can You Find The Six Words Hidden In These Pictures?
If you are like most people on the Internet (and, indeed, the world), you highly enjoy solving puzzles, finding things in pictures, and then letting everyone know you are intellectually capable of doing so. Isn't that what Facebook is all about, after all? Flaunting superiority? Or maybe it's just fun.
Mind Blowing Optical Illusion Paintings By Rob Gonsalves
Robert Gonsalves, a Canadian artist, is well known for his magical and mind-blowing paintings which have stormed your mind asking the meaning of the painting and questioning whether it is real or not. Most of his amazing painting have stories to tell and all those stories are not very clear. You will be not ascertained about the meaning and will be lost at some point on the way while understanding the painting. Like an optical illusion, you will see the painting in a different angle every time you look at it. From a very young age Robert was fond of art and with so much of experience, he was able to make paintings with complexity which always led people lost and misdirect every time they look at those. He was able to master with technique, perspective and architectural art at the age of 12.
Committee Meeting and Mary Beard Lecture in Rome
On 8 February, the Holberg Committee met in Rome, and Committee member Mary Beard delivered a lecture at the Royal Norwegian Embassy. Dame Hazel Genn chaired the 8 February Holberg Committe meeting in Rome, where the five Committee members met to discuss this year’s shortlist of candidates for the Holberg Prize and recommend a recipient. The Committee was unanimous in its decision, and its recommendation was put forward to the Holberg Board.
This is what a world map looks like if you're colourblind
In an average audience of eight men and eight women, there's a 50 per cent chance that at least one person has a degree of colour blindness. A reddit user, Renno Hokwerda, posted a brief series of maps to Imgur to highlight the difficulties faced by some in interpreting colour coded maps. Hokwerda told indy100 that he used Coblis, an online tool which attempts to replicate how some colour-blind people will see certain images: I am not an expert on colour-blindness at all, nor am I myself colour-blind. I posted last Sunday a map on Reddit r/mapporn showing the world's general election days, to which I added a textual key for colour-blind people who perhaps wouldn't be able to read the map. That key sparked many people's interest in colour-blindness and some colour-blind people responded gratefully, which gave me the idea to produce a map the way colour-blind people see.I wanted to convey a message, a sense rather than perfection of 'this is 100 per cent what 'they' see'.
Soulsearching: Michael Ruetten - Down By The River #1 Summer 2019
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Nile shipwreck discovery proves Herodotus right – after 2,469 years
In the fifth century BC, the Greek historian Herodotus visited Egypt and wrote of unusual river boats on the Nile. Twenty-three lines of his Historia, the ancient world’s first great narrative history, are devoted to the intricate description of the construction of a “baris”. For centuries, scholars have argued over his account because there was no archaeological evidence that such ships ever existed. Now there is. A “fabulously preserved” wreck in the waters around the sunken port city of Thonis-Heracleion has revealed just how accurate the historian was.
Cibola Burn (Expanse #4) read online free by James S.A. Corey
Prologue: Bobbie Draper A thousand worlds, Bobbie thought as the tube doors closed. And not just a thousand worlds. A thousand systems. Suns. Gas giants.
Connecting Research: The Forum · How diverse was Roman Britain?
By Dr Matthew Nicholls, Department of Classics, University of Reading A heated conversation arose on social media on Wednesday surrounding the question of the racial diversity of Roman Britain, or the Roman empire more generally. The tweet from Alt Right commentator Paul Jospeh Watson, that kicked off the debate There is plenty of evidence that the Roman empire was relatively diverse, as might be expected from an empire that encouraged trade and mobility across a territory that extended from Hadrian’s Wall to north Africa, the Rhine, and the Euphrates (and which, less positively, enslaved and moved conquered populations around by force). Rome itself was a melting pot of people from all over the Mediterranean and beyond (satirical poets moan about it, and we have the evidence of tombstones).
Leaked footage shows Tucker Carlson's epic meltdown after being schooled by
During a private panel in front of some of the world’s wealthiest people, he chastised them for not addressing the elephant in the room: taxes. “I mean 1500 private jets have flown in here to hear Sir David Attenborough speak about how we’re wrecking the planet,” Bregman said. “I hear people talking the language of participation and justice and equality and transparency.”
Caitlin Green: A note on the evidence for African migrants in Britain from the Bronze Age to the medieval period
The degree to which pre-modern Britain included people of African origin within its population continues to be a topic of considerableinterest and some controversy. Previous posts on this site have discussed a variety of textual, linguistic, archaeological and isotopic evidence for people from the Mediterranean and/or Africa in the British Isles from the Late Bronze Age through to the eleventh century AD. However, the focus in these posts has been on individual sites, events or periods, rather than the question of the potential proportion of people from Africa present in pre-modern Britain per se and how this may have varied over time. The aim of the following post is thus to briefly ponder whether an overview of the increasingly substantial British corpus of oxygen isotope evidence drawn from pre-modern archaeological human teeth has anything interesting to tell us with regard to this question. Notes1 This corpus is based primarily upon J.
