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We now arrive to the east of Greek lands in what would become one of the most influential regions to Greek history on its periphery. Anatolia, also known as Asia Minor would have a history of human habitation stretching back over 1 million years, with other sites dotted throughout the region pointing to its continued habitation for the hundreds of thousands of years following…
Luēs corōnāria in Britanniā victa …
CW/TW: brief mention of Canadian Residential Schools and recent and ongoing discovery of graves. Liv speaks with archaeologist Steph Halmhofer about conspiracy and conspirituality in archaeology and pseudoarchaeology, Atlantis and its dangerous development into what it is today, and more.
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Today on the Etruscan Brontoscopic Calendar:
[Saturday] If it thunders today, it portends an oppressive air and bearing disease for all.
[Sunday] If it thunders today, it portends painful deaths.
… adapted from the text and translation of:
Jean MacIntosh Turfa, The Etruscan Brontoscopic Calendar, in Nancy Thomson de Grummond and Erika Simon (eds.), The Religion of the Etruscans. University of Texas Press, 2006. (Kindle edition)
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