I hate when Greek capital sigmas (Σ)(which are S’s) are used as E’s. Worst offender: My Big Fat Greek Wedding.

It’s because many Neolithic sites have been interpreted as showing little wealth inequality, ie, the houses are more or less the same size, no special place within a community for a ruler or god, mother-earth worship = more peaceful communities, etc, etc. However, interpretation is often colored by the data available…

There’s an episode dedicated to this event on the podcast “Criminal”, episode 25: The Portrait. They interview the author of a book about the Lawsons, and also some of the locals that still remember the event, as well as present a new version of the song. Edit: It was apparently super interesting to all the visiting…

The article seems to imply that the skeleton was trans, since it still refers to the individual as a woman (The Harper Road woman) and uses the pronoun “she”, and also links to another article about the transgender community.

Still doesn’t make sense - you are stating that this is the last year the award will be retired, as in it gets retired every year. I think you mean “It was announced that this will be the last year the award statuette will feature H.P. Lovecraft.”

Basically the whole Italian peninsula was covered with different tribes and languages before the Romans took over. Etruscans, Samnites, Ligurians, Apulians, etc, etc, as well as all the Greek colonies along the southern half of the coast.

John Pendlebury: Curator and Director of the British excavations at the Minoan site of Knossos. His knowledge of the landscape of Crete and modern Greek led him to become an intelligence officer during World War II. He was executed by German soldiers during the Battle of Crete in 1941. Not sure if he was able to…

It’s definitely interesting, but it should have gone much slower. And in the process of going so fast, we have lost information that could have made it more interesting: they found the remains of (I think) 5 people in the tomb, but some of the bones were scattered around. Were they buried all at once? Maybe someone…

Archaeologist living in Greece: the Amphipolis tomb - how f*cked up was the excavation? In the lead archaeologist’s hurry to get to the burial chamber (the whole Greek public and government breathing down her neck probably didn’t help), how much information was lost? It’s highly unlikely that there was extensive…

The American English word “moose”. All the Germanic languages call the animal that we call moose a form of the word elk - elch in German, ålg in Swedish, etc. When my German friend mentioned an elk in conversation, I realized she meant moose and was very confused. Because, of course, in North America, an elk is a…

My favorite guilty pleasure movie. It's all about Omar Sharif speaking first in Greek and then in Latin to a bunch of Vikings... nerd boner.

True dat. So, he's an emo teenager who has to be really dark and mysterious because dead girlfriend. Anyway, I've started reading the second book and it's good so far, despite emo Valyn.

So even if Kaden and Valyn are Irish twins, they would let a 16-17 year old command a Navy Seal-like commando unit??? I find that really hard to believe. I like better thinking that Valyn is at least 19-20, and just got overlooked for Emperor because of the eyes thing... Ah well.

I liked the first book a lot, although I still have a problem with The Girl in the Refrigerator trope for Valyn's character. I didn't read too much of the article above because of spoilers, but does this continue to be a thing with Valyn? He's SO tortured because his girlfriend got murdered. He's SO guilty. He can't…

It never seemed that ambiguous in the books - Shae was in it for money and status. She wasn't even particularly smart about it either. She never seemed to understand the real danger she was in, being hitched to Tyrion's banner, and that if she were an obvious mistress, Tyrion's enemies would use/hurt/kill her to get…

I always considered that part of the song to be the most awesome sex soundtrack ever. I really wanted someone to loop it over and over, since I would hope awesome sex would last longer than 30-45 seconds.

I always thought the lyric was "So you can make me CUM, that doesn't make you Jesus", which has a different connotation to "come". Was I interpreting that wrong? I feel that was the lyric that came with the album liner, but maybe I'm misremembering... And no offense to the writer, but did she even understand "cum" in…

Also, according to some articles, the gallery where they display the mask is noticeably darker than the rest of the museum, as if they are trying hard to hide this from visitors.

You can see the glue and scratching on his left chin in the picture included in this article: http://egyptianstreets.com/2015/01/21/bea…

Agh! I got mixed up too! Mmmm, the lovely Ashitaka...