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Are there any books with history short/summarised stories?
I was recently reading Atrocities by Matthew white, which has stories about the 100 greatest atrocities in world history. It is the first history book I have managed to complete. I prefer to read a ...
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Were women allowed to study at the Library of Alexandria?
The closest thing I've been able to find on the topic was in relation to Hypatia, the mathematician, who was born centuries after the library was burned. Is there a list of known people who studied at ...
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Where can I find high-resolution images of these Sumerian tablets
I've looked around quite a bit and couldn't find them. Looking for sketches, and a bonus images of the tablets, of the following Sumerian documents:
Kesh temple hymn (maybe that is in here, not sure)
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How were documents written in Plato's time?
I'm writing an essay at the moment and I rather thoughtlessly wrote down that they used books. But it seems to me that this might not be the case and that books might be a relatively new invention.
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How, if at all, is published pseudohistory publicly addressed by scholars and academia?
To start of I would like to make it clear that I am not a historian or academian of any kind. I'm only interested in history as a hobby.
I was just browsing to buy an audiobook in area of Ancient ...
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Who titled the works of Aristotle?
I had always assumed that Aristotle titled his own works. But under the Wikipedia article on Metaphysics, it gives an alternative explanation for the origin of the work's title:
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