Today:
Welcome to this week's instalment of /r/AskHistorians' Sunday Digest (formerly the Day of Reflection). Nobody can read all the questions and answers that are posted here, so in this thread we invite you to share anything you'd like to highlight from the last week - an interesting discussion, an informative answer, an insightful question that was overlooked, or anything else.
I really enjoyed /u/Astrogator's reply to How Do Scholars Translate Text they only Have Fragments of? as well as /u/Rosemary85's reponse to that same question. I also enjoyed /u/edXcitizen87539319's reponse & /u/idjet's reponse to Why is the seat of government in the Netherlands called 'The' Hague instead of just Hague?
My question, What are the origins of Al-Qaeda? didn't get a definitive reponse but I did get some good book suggestions from /u/petros08, but there still might be room for a "definitive answer".
/u/Astrogator made an epic reply to the question "How Do Scholars Translate Text they only Have Fragments of?". /u/rosemary85 made another epic reply in that thread, this time concerning Greek epigraphy.
I liked the answers to my questions on Mexican Catholicism and all of the wars between the Romans and Persians
A couple posts that haven't been mentioned yet:
Why didn't Canada develop a European-indigenous fusion culture like Mexico? Honestly, every single response here is great. Kudos to /u/alotofreading, /u/RioAbajo, /u/Cozijo, and /u/mormengil.
/u/asdjk482 on What is the earliest iteration of the flood story? Is it the deluge in Gilgamesh?