OT: Stunning Very Recent Archaeological Discoveries

12 stunning recent discoveries, such as when/where horse breeding first produced a transformative horse suitable for intensive horseriding, the derivation of the Hittites from the Indo-Europeans, far earlier emergence of proto-greek writing dating to the time of Homeric oral literature, remnants of a successful agricultural proto-civilization that emerged, built, and seems to have thought better of agricultural urbanization such as happened in Ur — and the residents simply walked away.

I found the video a fine medicine to the downsides of living with our current lunacies.

Real, non-sensational

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Horses, the EVs of antiquity?

The Captain

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