Hello, could anyone recommend good texts on Minoan society and religion? I've come across the name of Nanno Marinatos in my travels across Google but wanted to see if you guys had any other pointers or whether Marinatos is a good place to start for someone who's used to and enjoys reading well-researched history. Cheers!

Hi there, I’m a medical student learning about typhoid fever, and just heard the case about Typhoid Mary for the very first time. And it’s just so strangely interesting to me.

I know medicine wasn’t very advanced in that time, but if this cook seriously went from family to family, where every household succumbed to the illness, and then had doctors approaching her telling her she was the cause, and then ignored them, and continued to experience everyone around her getting infected with typhoid fever... wouldn’t it cross her mind that the doctors were right and she should stop cooking?

I heard that she became a launderess and that it didn’t pay as much money, so she changed her name and continued to cook for people. But if you know you’re an asymptomatic carrier of a deadly disease, why would you knowingly continue to infect your fellow mankind? In my understanding she didn’t stop until she was forcibly quarantined to a hospital and not allowed to leave.

Maybe she didn’t believe the doctors immediately, but circumstantial evidence would raise suspicions. Why would she continue to cook and spread infection?

Are there any historical or socioeconomic reasons that I’m missing? I find it so hard to believe that it was simply out of her own selfishness (I’m still young). If any historians have any other insight into her case, I’d truly love to listen. Thank you for your time.

I have a feeling its some animal based glue or similar. Thanks for your help!

I have noticed that there is a sub reddit dedicated to Rhodesia and I want to ask, why is the bush war and Rhodesia romanticized by the global right? Of you spend 1 minute on this sub reddit you will notice very few people actually lived in Rhodesia so why do people care so much about a corrupt short lived African apartheid state?

Hi Guys, im studying history and im very confused at the moment, im trying to wrap my head around the events that happened after the failed 1848 revolution, afaik the Prussian monarch issued a parliament with two chambers? Was this what they call the 'Landtag'? and than after the 1867 North german confederation what exactly happened to this? Did this turn into what we call the 'Reichtstag' ? How does Bismarck come into play in all this ? And what happens to the reichtstag in 1871 with the second german empire?

Im so confused with the terms Landtag and Reichtstag , please send help...

Why did outlaw motorcycle gangs not take off in the United Kingdom in the same way they did in the United States and Australia in the 50s and 60s? Was this mainly a result of the former country not participating in Vietnam, or were there other factors?

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I am looking for sources on Iron Age Europe, but I'm running into a lot of sources on the Celts. However when I look for stuff on the Nordic Iron Age. I find very little. The wiki article whose bibliography I would usually go to for sources covers from 750 bce to 750 ce and there is little separating them.

I've found a few books on bog bodies and of Tacitus' Germania, but little else. Do you have some advice on finding sources from say the first century ce back to around 500 or so bce.

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My uncle passed these pictures down to me years ago. We have done our best to keep the mold away but it keeps growing. I am obviously not able to preserve them and do not want to damage them. I was hoping that there were some places were these photos might do some good while being preserved. The family story behind them is that my Great Uncle took them off of a dead German Officer sometime during WWII. Thanks in advance for your help and suggestions!

It's it possible to establish a timeline of Greek mythology? Because there are a lot of myths that are established one after another, but some other not (as far as I know). Also, there are conflicting ones, like the myth of Demeter in which there are whole cities and kingdoms before agriculture, which is contradictory.

So, even if the histories didn't happened, maybe the authors were thinking in a timeline compatible with our own time. Also, are some of the figures (specially kings and other mortals) actually based on real people or are they totally invented?

Going through my textbook, it seemed to say similar things.

You get bit by a werewolf, you become a werewolf. You get bit by a vampire, you become a vampire. You get bit by a zombie, you become a zombie. It's like all these mythical creatures were invented by the same author or something...

Can anyone clear up some confusion I’m having. So I recently watched something on king tut and there were a bunch of weird things pointed out in the video. Why were so many items in there belonging to someone else, Nefertiti to be exact? Why was he buried in what was supposedly a woman’s tomb, because of the right angle after the entrance rather than angling left? Why are some Egyptologists claiming the mask was a woman’s, and that it was welded together from another mask? Why, unlike most if not all other pharaohs, was the tomb not ready before he died and so paint was wet when it was sealed? There’s a lot of fishy ness surrounding this and I’m wondering if anyone familiar with the subject could shed some light on it!

Some people, in philosophy for example, are sceptical about things largely accepted as truths(such as morality, scientific truths, etc.). Is anyone aware of anyone, especially someone taken somewhat seriously, who has taken a similar sceptical stance toward historical events. If there is not a perfect record of an event, how do we know the history that is passed down to us was not fully fabricated?

My initial logical objection would be that there are sperate historical accounts, sometimes by the thousands, of certain events, which are constantly being unearthed. Fabricating all of this would likely be impossible.

But I feel like similar could be said about truths in math and science that people are sceptical about.

Anyway, are there any historical sceptics out there?

Also, I am not endorsing this position. I was thinking of it as a satirical conspiracy type video to make(like say the American government invented all records of Christianity and Jesus or something crazy), but then I started thinking more seriously about historical scepticism.

I build model planes in my spare time and I frequently see paint schemes labeled with not only a unit or squadron but a specific pilot. I know in modern times, US planes may have a pilot's name listed on the aircraft but it's not always flown by that person. In WWII some aircraft marking systems indicated ranks or leadership, so I've been assuming specific pilots could only fly certain planes but that seems like it would cause unnecessary limits during wartime.

If anyone could provide some insight on this I would be very grateful.

They obviously didn't have all the tools we have, so how did people do their jobs? Was there social isolation? Do we have any sources on how the pandemic affected the mental state of people? What they did to keep from snapping in a time of crisis? How they acquired supplies, since getting everything on delivery was out of the question?

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@Edit of the edit: Mod asked me to remove some of them because they are worth their own thread.