We see sculptures and art by Roman and Greek artists which are amazing and are almost realistic with perception and muscles structures within their art, but there is a great absence of such art when the WRE falls. We then see a revival of such art when the Italian states start to get interested in Roman culture and history.

My main question is how could the ability to draw and sculpt "disappear" for almost a thousand years in Europe?

Essentially, what the title said. Given that new Roman sites, for example, are still discovered in Europe on a relatively regular basis, presumably there must still be many undiscovered sites out in the inhospitable corners of the world. What are the best candidates?

As the title says. Thanks in advance!

Hello, all! I am mostly a lurker on this sub, so forgive the vague question.

I want to know more about Russia from before wwi and the Bolshevik revolution and the end of the cold war. Mostly I want to know about the culture that led to the revolution? what lead to the cold war from the Russian side? I feel that I have a very one sided knowledge about the 20th century and am trying to expand my knowledge, but don't really know where to start. Any resources you could point me to would be appreciated.

As an aside, this curiosity was brought on by Dan Carlin's hard core history pod cast. What do you all think of it?

They seem to be much more developed and progressive, with better economies and standard of living... Why is that?

I find it hard to believe it was all "peoples' choice" that Stalin was in power for 24 years, and that the fact that many, many other officials never really left their positions was down to the people's deep love for them.

Are there any sources to indicate the depth of rigging, the number of officials involved (how common was it?), the involvement of the communist party, etc..?

And has there been pushback from the other states to try to get in on some of the action, so to speak.

Was everything just left behind or were there organized "clean up" crews covering the trenches with dirt etc. and gathering the remaining equipment?

I reckon it varied depending on the area and country.

We all know there are obvious difference between "Ye Olde English" and today's English, but at what point in time does it get so different that you wouldn't be able to understand anyone, even though you're both speaking "English"?

I am currently teaching English and Russia, and a substantial number of people I have talked to are laboring under the impression that the Soviets had the A-bomb before the US did. This seems incorrect to me. What is the history and the historiography behind this?

I know for example that Christmas was influenced by the Roman Saturnalia. Or that the title of Pontifex was conferred to the Pope later on. Can you give me more examples of Christian elements that were influenced by ancient polytheistic traditions?

Sorry for any mistakes

Edit: Thanks guys for the great answers

Hey guys sorry for any mistakes I'm on a mobile. Anyway what was the general name of a soldier or person who wielded a pole arm I know that a soldier who used a spear was a spearman and so on but what about polearms?

(Turned on the tv today to find memorial service for VJ Day, it got me wondering about British involvement in the Pacific theatre.

I hated my history teacher at school, so I didn't even study the subject at gcse level. As such, most of my WW2 knowledge is self taught, and I know next to nothing about events outside of Europe.)

Was hoping someone could give me a brief overview of what the British did in the far east during the war, and what effect it had on the country& the empire as a whole.

Anecdotally I have the sense that pedophilia was in fairly recent decades not nearly as potent a taboo as it is currently. The early gay rights movement allied itself with NAMBLA, a relatively popular public intellectual in the 70s, whose name unfortunately escapes me, wrote a novel in that period which was clearly supportive of sexual relations between men and boys, and the poet Alan Ginsberg was a supporter of NAMBLA without the extremity of approbation which one might expect for a public figure coming out in support of a similar agenda today. I have a sense overall that pedophilia was not nearly as taboo in Western culture as recently as the 70s as it is today. Is my appreciation of the change in the power of the pedophiliac taboo accurate, and if so what forces lead to the current extreme potency of the taboo against pedophilia?

Guderian questioned the value of capturing Kursk. If Operation Citadel had succeeded as an offensive, what was the OKW's planned subsequent strategy?

When i look up information about Massilia I find almost no information on it.I find it surprising that Massilia was able to have success in Gaul seeing how i would normally think a wealthy foreign city would be a prime target for the local barbarians. How were they able to maintain independence and even expand in such an isolated area of the Greek world, how large was the population of the city, what did they trade and with who, what did their battles and armies look like. I'm mostly interested in the time period before Rome started having a lot of influence over the city.