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.

Click Here to Read: Oligarchy’s Ancient Origins by Matt Simonton  on the Project Syndicate website on July 1, 2026.

Map Peloponnesian War 431 BC.  Image: Map_Peloponnesian_War_431_BC-fr.svg: Marsyas derivative work: Aeonx (talk).  Public Domain via Wikimeia Commons.