Discovery Yields Surprising Revelations about Europe’s Oldest City
The Daily Journalist.
Recent fieldwork at the ancient city of Knossos on the Greek island of Crete finds that during the early Iron Age (1100 to 600 BC), the city was rich in imports and was nearly three times larger than what was [...]
German-Iranian Team Uncovers Ancient Trade Routes
By University of Tubingen.
Tübingen researchers and Iranian archaeologists find evidence of raw materials trade between Bronze Age Iran and Mesopotamia
Many of us have seen the impressive statues of ancient Mesopotamian rulers in the [...]
An Englishman in the court of Nepal
By Rana Subodh.
The old Englishman was very fond of Prime Minister Jung Bahadur Rana. He reminisced about how the brash youngster attached to the retinue of Crown Prince Surendra had performed impossible feats the feckless prince [...]
Gambling in Ancient Rome
By Michael Anderson.
We know man has been fond of gambling since the beginning of civilization, based on the archaeology, but, most likely, he has been gambling since his intellect developed the capacity. What is it that drives the human desire [...]
On Darwinism versus Darwinist
– Mike Sutton –
ONCE AGAIN, THE BIGDATA-IDD METHOD CUTS THROUGH UNINFORMED CLAPTRAP LIKE A BUZZSAW IN BALONEY
Vogt (1863) was apparently the first to be second to use the term Darwinist, which was first coined in 1861
I’ve [...]
An American Pompeii: Mayan Village Preserved in Volcanic Ash for 1400 Years
Alton Parrish.
A continuing look at a Maya village in El Salvador–frozen in time by a blanket of volcanic ash from 1,400 years ago–shows the farming families who lived there went about their daily lives with virtually [...]
Thanksgiving: the English Origins of the Word and American Holiday
By Mike Sutton
The website of the History Channel – History.com provides a neat summary of the history of the first American Thanksgiving in the Plymouth settlement in America, which is marked as the year following the first 1620 [...]
Invaluable ancient Syrian mosaic uncovered
The Daily Journalist.
Classical scholars from Münster are excavating one of the few sites of ancient Roman Syria in Turkey that are currently accessible as a result of the political situation in the Middle East
Münster classical scholars [...]
The 300 year Old Etymological Evolution of Gunpowder Treason Day
– By Mike Sutton –
November 5th it is what we in the United Kingdom of England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland now call Bonfire Night, or else Guy Fawkes’ Night or else Firework Night. But, whatever individuals [...]
Happy Halloween: Amazingly, it Appears that the Scottish Poet Robert Burns Coined the Word
– By Mike Sutton –
Today (31 October 2015) is Halloween. And so, from that cause, I deployed my Big Data ID method – which is, incidentally, the same method – see Sutton 2014 – that debunked Charles Darwin’s [...]
Why tuition-free college makes sense
By Lawrence S. Wittner.
This college building in Kansas was one of the first created under the 1862 Morrill Act
The issue of making college tuition-free has recently come to the fore in American politics, largely because the two leading [...]
Global division and revolution: National vs. Comprador Bourgoise
By Jon Kofas.
There are very clear signs that structurally the world is moving increasingly toward further consolidation of the polarizing model that divides the world geographically – rich or developed, semi-developed, [...]
Symbol of Nepalese Nationhood
By Subodh Ranah.
Dhaka Topi
It was at St. Xavier’s Godavari School that I first got acquainted with the Nepali state’s aspirations to nationalism. Ironically it was our mainly American Jesuit priests who mandated [...]
The four phases of a superpower’s lifespan
By Jaime Ortega.
The inception of Neo-liberalism is deeply enrooted in the dawn of mankind. The historical-cycle of liberalism is directly intertwined with the rise and fall of past civilizations. All cultures share a similar facet of [...]
Roots of Islamic fanaticism
By Nelson Hultberg.
“Know thy enemy,” said Sun Tzu, the famous Chinese military strategist of the 6th century B.C. Wise words, indeed, and we need to apply them toward the Islamist enemies we face today. What is it that motivates [...]
US destabilization policy toward the Middle East: A Historical perspective
By Jon Kofas.
Introduction
The current crisis convergence in the Ukraine and the Middle East poses challenges for US foreign policy. However, it also demonstrates glaring contradictions and credibility gap not just [...]
War on workers: Anti-labor political, social, economic and cultural forces
By Jon Kofas.
The Problem of Labor and Democracy
Governments, mainstream politicians working within the existing system, businesses, many think tanks and a segment of academia, and the media portray workers as the enemy of [...]
Deciphering of Mayan glyph, provides a leap for understanding Mayan culture
The Daily Journalist
63 years since the discovery of the tomb of Mayan King Pakal located inside the Temple of Inscriptions in Palenque, Chiapas (southern state of Mexico), the researcher Guillermo Bernal Romero from the Maya [...]
What the Tsarnaevs didn’t Know: The Untold Story of Chechen Non-Violence
By Rebecca Gould.
While the Boston bombing trial continues to dominate the media, its perpetrators, the Tsarnaev brothers, are associated with a geography scarcely known by Americans: Chechnya. If there is any examination of [...]
The Neoconservative Counterrevolution
By Andrew Hartman.
Norman Podhoretz, one of the leading figures of neoconservatism, at theCommentary office in the 1960s. Gert Berliner
In the anti-sixties backlash, neoconservatives were the most formidable [...]