Evans seems to have reconstructed some parts of the Knossos archaeological site. Yet, his efforts seem to receive a great deal of criticism. Why is that? Is it because reconstruction of archaeological sites is -in general- considered a bad idea?

I've visited the site many times, but my untrained eye did not catch any (obvious) wrongdoings. Are there any specific cases of Evans' reconstructions in Knossos, that tourists see today but are blatantly wrong?

Can be in either the central power's countries or the Allies.

And because you can't edit titles, for -> or. Stupid iPod.

For the unknowing, Metal Gear Solid is a video game where you play a spy executing extremely difficult military espionage. In the video game, the character has no political or military back up if caught. Just wondering if there have been any military operations that resemble that of the video game's.

I know Linears A and B were written left to right, so perhaps the Greeks simply preserved that system. Still, it seems odd that they would adopt a foreign text but retain something like the writing direction.

Is there something that was game changing for paintings that made "realistic" or somewhat lifelike artwork possible, or was carving busts easier to conceptualize because it's in 3D?

The UK flag is a combination of the flags of 3 countries: Scotland, England, Ireland. But why doesn't it include Wales?

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At the time, if the French really wanted to, could that have ended the Revolution a lot sooner?

It's in the southeast and both Poland and Czechoslovakia fell behind the wall, correct? Was Austria a special case? While we're at it, was Yugoslavia technically behind the iron curtain as well?

Circa AD250 ...if it makes any difference

Not including casualties of the wars of course. I'm just trying to gauge the population loss of losing official German territories (so not the territories annexed during WW2 either) to the treaties at the wars end. Some examples i'm thinking of are the populations of Alsace-Lorraine, Eupen-Malmedy in WW1, and the loss of the territories east of the Oder–Neisse line in WW2. Most of the statistics I've come across state that Germany's population in 1945 and 1946 are shockingly similar... which doesn't seem to make much sense considering the territory lost.

I was reading an article about the Sentinelese, an uncontacted culture living on North Sentinel Island in the Andaman Island chain. There are dozens of uncontacted tribes, mostly in Papua New Guinea and the Amazon. How do historians work around the inherent lack of communication to learn about the indigenous peoples that shun outside contact? How has this changed from the past when expanding cultures/empires encountered people who wanted no contact? I'm aware that many instances were either conquest or extermination such as what was seen in the 16th-19th centuries, but are there historical precedents of cultures intentionally leaving another group to their own devices?

I've been casually researching vikings and the Norse in general over the past few years, and recently been thinking that pirates are kind of like vikings with gunpowder. And I got to wondering if there were actually a substantial amount of Nordic pirates during that time, or was it mostly the English and whoever else?

Not really well informed of the piracy age yet, sadly.