A short article [https://theconversation.com/william-shakespeare-archaeology-is-revealing-new-clues-about-the-bards-life-and-death-136803] on recent archaeological developments that tell us more than we previously knew about Shakespeare's life.

Palaeontologists have found [https://www.sciencealert.com/palaeontologists-say-ancient-sahara-was-most-dangerous-place-in-earth-s-history] a corner of the Sahara desert had ridiculously high concentrations of giant carnivores.

The Royal Game of Ur was a board game played for over three thousand years, starting from around 3000 BC in Mesopotamia. The British Museum brought it back to life and set up a game between their curator and a famous YouTuber: The gameplay

In 1900 someone attempted to predict [http://www.personal.psu.edu/staff/t/w/twa101/whatmayhappen.pdf] what life would be like 100 years later. Some of his predictions were incredibly accurate, and some seem laughably naive. Accurate Population growth: > There will probably

American history is filled with rags-to-riches stories. Herbert Hoover's story is as great as any of them. He is born in poverty, orphaned at 10, goes to Stanford on a scholarship, gets rich mining in Australia and Britain, saves Belgium

The most interesting and bizarre thing I've read [https://www.smithsonianmag.com/science-nature/60-mammoths-house-russia-180974426/] in a long while is that people during the Ice Age used to build houses out of.. mammoth bones. Life is truly stranger

An incredibly niche but interesting article [https://www.valvemagazine.com/web-only/categories/manufacturing/4947-ancient-roman-valves.html] on ancient roman valves.

Interesting article [https://fantasticanachronism.com/2020/01/17/having-had-no-predecessor-to-imitate/index.html] on how the Homeric poems might have been composed and eventually written down. Nothing too surprising here – the author claims Homer did not compose the Iliad and the

This article [https://marginalrevolution.com/marginalrevolution/2020/01/tomb-economics.html] explains an interesting feature of the Mughal Empire that led the nobility to build more tombs than palaces: > Since land could not be handed down to the next generation, there was very

Someone Twitter has created a facial reconstruction [https://twitter.com/sUAtateslier/status/1215693850708185090] of Julius Caesar. I'm not sure how accurate it is, but somehow this is exactly what I expected him to look like.