Click Here to Read: Jews in the Civil Rights Movement: Nowhere did Jews identify themselves more forthrightly with the liberal avant-garde than in the Civil Rights movement of the 1960s.By Howard Sachar on the My Jewish Learning website.
March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom, Martin Luther King, Jr. and Joachim Prinz pictured, 1963 Image: Unknown. Public Domain via Wikimedia Commons.
Click Here to Read: Who built Europe’s first cities? Clues about the urban revolution emerge: Around 6,000 years ago, a group known as the Cucuteni–Trypillia culture developed egalitarian settlements north of the Black Sea and created the region’s earliest urban centres. Then, after two millennia, they vanished. By Emma Marris on the Nature website on January 7, 2025.
A map of the approximate extent of the Neolithic Cucuteni-Trypillian culture.Image: Saukkomies at English Wikipedia. Public Domain via Wikimedia Commons.
Click Here to Read: How Archaeologists Discovered Europe’s Oldest-Known Book, Revealing Never-Before-Seen Insights Into Ancient Religion and Philosophy: Charred by the flames of a funeral pyre, the Derveni Papyrus has proved to be a fascinating—and confounding—artifact by Teresa Nowakowski on the Smithsonian Magazine website on January 15, 2025
Derveni papyrus. Public Domain via Wikimedia Commons.
Click Here to Read: How AI is unlocking ancient text —and could rewrite history: From deciphering burnt Roman scrolls to reading crumbling cuneiform tablets, neural networks could give researchers more data than they’ve had in centuries By Jo Marchant on the Nature website on December 30, 2024.
Sumerian account of silver for the govenor (background removed) . Image: Gavin.collins Public Domain via Wikimedia Commons.
Click Here to Read: Medieval scholars say 536 CE was the worst year to be alive on the History Facts website.
A medieval depiction of the Ecumene (1482, Johannes Schnitzer, engraver), constructed after the coordinates in Ptolemy’s Geography and using his second map projection. Public Domain via Wikimedia Commons.
