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by wl 4y ago
Most clay tablets pulled out of the ground are unfired. The act of removing unfired tablets that have been in the ground for so long kicks off some decay, so it used to be common to fire excavated tablets to preserve them. There's mode
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> Still, the end of Mesopotamian records is abrupt. There's a written record from prehistory until the wars of around 700 BC, where the use of writing drops off but doesn't completely stop. But written records in Akkadian, the
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Sargon also means "true king," an appropriate name for someone who probably killed his brother to usurp the throne and had plenty of legitimacy problems as a result. Moving the capital of the empire away from Kalhu to the newly-bu
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That, too, is a revisionist take. Sure, earlier commentary concentrated on advantages of the militia, especially verses a standing army. But there is only limited discussion of the scope of the right prior to the 20th century. It was only w
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Yeah, I was surprised to read nothing in her article about the HP archives about how much of the earliest stuff was burned in the Tubbs fire. https://www.pressdemocrat.com/article/business/hewlett-packa...
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American here. My first thought is the opera. And I've traveled to NYC just to visit the museum.
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Unless the artifacts were archeologically excavated and professionally conserved, they probably were fake to some degree. The art market treats ancient artifacts like more modern art, which are to be admired for their aesthetic qualities an
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> There would have been engineering cost to designing a better lock. Putting security pins in there wouldn't have involved any engineering at all.
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None of my removed comments on reddit have ever broken any site or sidebar rules. When I've used this tool to ask mods for clarification about removed comments, mods have just made stuff up (example: saying I was engaging in namecallin
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Tomb robbers are given to smashing anything that gets in their way.
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Understand that the inside of pyramids were supposed to be sealed up for eternity, not visited by people. Visitors would instead go to the mortuary temples in front of the pyramids, which indeed had ornate interiors and plenty of hieroglyph
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by wl 4y ago
You wouldn't make an inverted-inverted-V antenna out of waveguide. The whole point of waveguide is to be a transmission line, not a radiating element. Even if we ignore that, a dipole antenna of those dimensions is two orders of magnit
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Of course it's a tomb. You have the mortuary temple out in front of it, with texts telling you exactly what it is. It fits in stylistically with mastabas, step pyramids, and true pyramids that come before and after that are unquestio
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It looks like all the other sarcophagi found in other Old Kingdom tombs. So no, "box" isn't specific enough.
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Jamming isn't destructive interference, which would require knowledge of the exact signal being sent as well as the exact location of the transmitter and receiver. Jamming is overwhelming the receiver with a stronger signal in the same
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It means "you're gullible." https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_C._Parker
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This is a bad idea. You'll make a dah sound like two or three badly timed dits. Copying morse code by ear is all about the rhythm. You can hear the rhythm just fine with simple knocks or taps.
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I mostly send with a paddle and decode with my ears. I sometimes use keyer memory to play back messages.
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It's useful in any situation where you're trying to make the most efficient use of the power available to you. The classic example is communicating with the other side of the world with minimal power, but it's also useful in
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Last I checked, mortgage lenders were requesting tax return transcripts from the IRS for income verification. The Work Number is NOT needed.
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You should also get your employer to not send your payroll data to Equifax. Opting out of Work Number only shuts off one way Equifax sells this information. They also collect the address on payroll and sell that database to law enforcement
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by wl 4y ago
My experience in California, Illinois, and Michigan (legal marijuana jurisdictions) is that second-hand marijuana smoke is very noticeable and unavoidable outside in public. Of course, growing up in California, legalization didn't seem
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The technical term for someone carving their name on something someone else had built is "usurpation" and it's hardly an obscure topic in Egyptology. It is definitely something people think of when dating objects and monument
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Are you expecting a fancier, embossed style or something? Those look like they're executed just fine.
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I'm talking specifically about their physical execution. It's not crude. I've seen plenty of sloppy hieroglyphs. These aren't them.
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You're overconfident. The consensus view in Egyptology is you're wrong about this. Maybe the consensus view is wrong and your fringe theory is more accurate, but it's really hard to have confidence that your theory is the cor
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Grave robbery is the plundering of grave goods to sell them on the antiquities market. Gaining evidence about the past is not a goal, so there's no attention given to documenting the site as it is excavated nor to preserving non-salabl
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The name "Easter" is an outlier. It's Πάσχα ("Pascha") in Greek, Pasqua in Italian, Pâques in French, Pascua in Spanish, Pasen in Dutch, Påske in Norwegian. It's only in German ("Ostern") and English
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No and no. https://historyforatheists.com/2020/12/pagan-christmas/ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YJq70tf0AsY
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Armageddon comes from "Har Megiddo," an actual place of strategic importance and hence the site of many battles named before the name took on apocalyptic connotations. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tel_Megiddo

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