BenMottram2016 t1_j90iafp wrote on February 18, 2023 at 8:01 AM

Reply to comment by maaku7 in Discovery of 4,500-year-old palace in Iraq may hold key to ancient civilisation | Archaeology by JesseBricks

You know it has resurrected itself don't you? Patreon/crowd funded.

BenMottram2016 t1_ixr1hm8 wrote on November 25, 2022 at 5:25 PM

Reply to comment by Elluminated in Emperor Charles V's secret code cracked after five centuries by IslandChillin

Why not?

Clean hands are the safest way to handle documents like this...

The classic white gloves are well out of favour these days because they snag on page edges, leave fibres everywhere and make the wearer considerably more clumsy.

Edit: one of many

BenMottram2016 t1_iwihdko wrote on November 15, 2022 at 9:46 PM

Reply to comment by IAm-The-Lawn in Irulegui Hand: Researchers claim to have found earliest document written in Basque 2,100 years ago by IslandChillin

Isn't it very distinct from any other language?

BenMottram2016 t1_ivdu103 wrote on November 7, 2022 at 5:57 AM

Reply to comment by Ok_Kaleidoscope1630 in They fled persecution in Nazi Germany. Then the British put them behind barbed wire by lanzkron

Different Axis PoWs were kept in different camps and whilst they all were scheduled to work on farms, they were kept separate and not allowed to mix...

Except, of course, when they did by mistake... Sauce - my dad got a bollocking for simultaneously accepting both German and Italian PoWs for work detail on his farm.