Click Here to Read: Book Review: Revolution in Mind: The Creation of Psychoanalysis by George Makari: This Time, Let’s Take A Look at the Prose Style by Jamey Hecht on his Substack on July 1, 2026.
Category: History
The invention of writing on Rapa Nui (Easter Island). New radiocarbon dates on the Rongorongo script
Click Herfe to Read: Ferrara, S., Tassoni, L., Kromer, B. et al. The invention of writing on Rapa Nui (Easter Island). New radiocarbon dates on the Rongorongo script. Sci Rep 14, 2794 (2024).
The rongorongo script of Easter Island. A closeup of the verso of the Small Santiago tablet G, showing parts of lines 3 (bottom) to 7 (top). The glyphs of lines 3, 5, and 7 are right-side up, while those of lines 4 and 6 are up-side down. Image: Unknown Author. Public Domain via Wikimedia Commons.
Note on Nietzsche’s Fall from Greece to Rome: His youthful plea for a participatory rebirth of Athenian vitality shimmered with Hellenic polytheis
Click Here to Read: Note on Nietzsche’s Fall from Greece to Rome: His youthful plea for a participatory rebirth of Athenian vitality shimmered with Hellenic polytheism by Jamey Hecht on his Substack on August 16, 2026.
Friedrich Nietzsche as Professor of Classical Philology at the University of Basel in Switzerland. Image: Friedrich Hermann Hartmann (1822–1902). Public Domain via Wikimedia Commons.
A passage from Homer’s Iliad has been discovered inside the abdomen of a Roman-era Egyptian mummy
Click Here to Read: A passage from Homer’s Iliad has been discovered inside the abdomen of a Roman-era Egyptian mummy: A snippet of text from Homer’s famous epic recounting the siege of Troy was apparently placed inside this body as part of the mummification process By Adam Kovac edited by Claire Cameron on The Scientific American website on April 23, 2026.
Hera, Athena and Iris in the Trojan War (Iris, at the Behest of Zeus, Warns Athena and Hera not to Assist the Greeks in their War with the Trojans.) Image: Jacques Réattu (1760–1833) . Public Domain via Wikimedia Commons.
A mere 3,400 years ago, one of Egypt’s greatest, most enigmatic, and, to be polite, let’s say eccentric pharaohs got one of the most revolutionary ideas in history in his head
Click Here to Read: A mere 3,400 years ago, one of Egypt’s greatest, most enigmatic, and, to be polite, let’s say eccentric pharaohs got one of the most revolutionary ideas in history in his head by Candida Moss in the Stones and Bones newsletter on the National Geographic website on July 1, 2026,
Akhenaten Image: Beeld van Achnaton. Public Domain via Wikimedia Commons.
Oligarchy’s Ancient Origins
Mozart manuscript back to life
Click Here to Read: Mozart manuscript back to life: A long-forgotten manuscript by composer Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart will be brought to life this weekend in Paris. The newly rediscovered work – composed in 1778 when the Austrian prodigy was just 22 – will be performed in public for the first time ever at France’s National Library on the France 24 website on June 19,2026.
Portrait of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart. ImageL Barbara Krafft (1764–1825). Public Domain via Wikimedia Commons.
