I got the best birthday present ever this week: positive peer reviews on my book manuscript. There were suggestions and thoughts and criticisms, but it was all constructive and none of it gets in the way of the publication schedule I need to adhere to. #itshappening.gif

Hello all-

I'm still giving all the time I can spare to Questions about Ancient Greece and Rome (you were afraid to ask in school), and plan to post a new video (on Greek and Roman clothing) in a week or so. In the meantime, some of you might be interested in Tales from the Blog, a section I recently added to the toldinstone site. This section collects some of the "greatest hits" from my long-neglected blog about exploring Greek and Roman sites. Most of the posts are more or less edifying; and if nothing else, they have plenty of pictures.

Hey all! I was advised to post on this thread earlier in the week regarding any assistance you can provide on a current project. It only takes a few minutes! (I will just copy and paste what I posted earlier this week)

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We are two PhD students at Brown University currently working on explorations of digital methods for the publication of cuneiform objects. These methods range from focus-stacking photography to 3D modeling using photogrammetry. Our goal is to provide better representations of cuneiform objects that can convey more information than a photograph.

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All of our work will be available for viewing online. As a result, we are interested in learning about what other kinds of information you would like to see alongside 3D models. We want this online tool to be as accessible as possible and useful in classroom settings outside of graduate level studies.

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Please be as honest and thorough as possible when responding to these questions. The only way we can make sure we make something useful for you is if we hear your voice. Thank you again!

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https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1vq_7OZsvvc9yIEXLb5Adpb2yuVu6m5SybH2NMsB08Bw/edit

Our blog has another Bundesarchiv discovery to report, which will be useful in combatting Holocaust denial, a request to award the men of the Sonderkommando Kulmhof (in the extermination camp Chelmno) whose task consisted in the "immediate fight against and annihilation of state enemies", which was of "crucial importance for the solution of one of the most important ethnic problems" and required "in particular a manly and strong mental attitude":

http://holocaustcontroversies.blogspot.com/2019/09/german-document-reveals-kulmhof-chelmno.html

Your Weekly /r/askhistorians Recap

Friday, August 30 - Thursday, September 05

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I’ve asked before for your opinions about less than helpful questions on the sub but I want to talk about a subset of questions that drive me absolutely batty.

It’s whenever someone I have to assume is 14 years old gives their military advice to long dead military icons; Why didn’t Robert E. lee just do this?, Why didn’t Napoleon Just do that?

And it always just boils down to them asking Why didn’t General Blah Blah just win the war? this is what I would have done...

Makes me want to tear my beard out.

Just wanted to share with the community something that made me smile. Mug of 60 Western philosophers. Seen at Powell's book store in Portland, OR. Gave me a jolt of delight. https://philosophersguild.com/products/its-hard-to-get-a-handle-on-philosophy

Any one got a recommendation for a good general book in pre-contact Mesoamerica for a non-specialist? Some fiction I've been reading lately has a Fantasy Counterpart Culture, and it got me curious.

Would flairs for common topics be something worth looking into? letting people filter them out if they want or filter for them if they want to answer

eg; British Empire, WW2, Did Hitler kick puppies etc?

This is my second time ever posting so I apologize in advance. As historians how far do you have your own family trees traced back to? How do you document the proof of those family trees? I work with autosomal dna fairly often and to me it is fairly reliable within 2 centuries. How do you prove beyond dna that paper trials are your true lineage?

How accurate are the numbers provided by contemporary sources for the various atrocities commuted by the Mongols at locations such as Urgench, Chang'an, Baghdad and Kiev.

And on that count, why is Genghis Khan and his similarly inclined decedents not treated with the same disdain as more recent mass murdering heads of state such as Hitler, Hirohito, Stalin, and Mao? Exspecialyi f you consider Güyük Khan's letter to Pope Innocent IV where the Khan effectively justifies the ravaging of Hungary and other act of conquest on Religious grounds. That God/Heaven (for lack of a better word) has Granted the Great Khan dominion over all the word and reals within it, and to not accept this or to oppose and resist them is to be in rebellion against God/Heaven.