#cats #history

For a long time we were taught and believed that cats were first domesticate around 4,000 years ago in Egypt. Turns out a recent archaeological discovery on Cyprus shows that should be at least 9,500 years.

As an uninhabited island at that time Cyprus had no native cats. A burial of that age was discovered in 2004 showing a cat buried alongside a boy.

This was shortly after the start of agriculture so they had to have brought the cat with them

https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2004/04/040409092827.htm

#archeology #history #Bolivia #Indigenous

Forgotten Ruins of 'Monumental' Amazonian Settlements Discovered in Bolivian Jungle

CLARE WATSON25 MAY 2022

The sprawling ruins of Amazonian settlements once home to an Indigenous agriculturalist society with a penchant for cosmology have been uncovered in the Bolivian jungle, hidden beneath seemingly impenetrable vegetation.

https://www.sciencealert.com/ruins-of-monumental-settlements-uncovered-in-bolivian-jungle

100 years of gummy bears #history #candy

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/the-colorful-history-of-haribo-goldbears-the-worlds-first-gummy-bears-180980094/

If you are still on the bird app I suggest you read this post to see just how bad Alito's references to Sir Matthew Hale are. The writer is a professor with a PhD, and my area of expertise happens to be women and gender in the early modern era (1500-1700)

#history #COSOhistory #misogyny #humanrights

https://twitter.com/Literature_Lady/status/1522202362366078979

#Archaeology is fascinating and extremely important. We need fair and accurate knowledge of our past, both recorded and unrecorded. This is a great find, a part of maritime #history..
https://www.ancient-origins.net/news-history-archaeology/hanseatic-league-ship-0016666

#history #civilizations
Always looking to learn new things in my septuagenarian dotage. The article is quite interesting

"The Sumerians were known for their innovation and their ability to design and build new items or concepts. In particular, they are known for putting a value on days, hours, and minutes by dividing day and night into 12 hours each, an hour into 60 minutes, and a minute into 60 seconds. https://www.ancient-origins.net/human-origins-religions/nippur-0016677