Pallisades View

View of the Pallisades from the Medieval Cloisters at the New York Metropolitan Museum, where over 200 million years ago the supercontinent Pangea ripped apart.

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Indigo Dye

Ancient History, History of Science, Long 19th- 20th centuries / July 24, 2024 / archaeology, art, economic history, environmental history, fashion history, pre-history, science, social history

It’s pleasant, from where I write this post in my ice-bitten and wintery grey state of Pennsylvania, to look at this lovely plant. Here is…

Otzi “The Iceman”

Ancient History, Long 19th- 20th centuries / September 3, 2024 / anthropology, archaeology, disease, medicine, pre-history, technology

Here’s a reconstruction of the oldest European mummy, called Ötzi, named for a region where he was found in the Alps back in 1991. His…

Marcus Tullius Cicero and His Thoughts on Death

Ancient History / November 13, 2024 / literature, political history, Rome, social history

Ah, this guy.Marcus Tullius Cicero (106 BCE- 43 BCE) — the most famous speech-maker in the history of Ancient Rome — could be whiny, self-important,…

Plympton 322

Ancient History / September 19, 2023 / Eurasia/Middle Eastern history, literature, math

This is Plympton 322, and this mathematical tablet written in cuneiform has been studied a lot to work out how much the Babylonians understood trigonometry.…

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