Get yourself fired up for another fabulous edition of the Sunday Digest. With hundreds of answers, a host of amazing writers, and more history then you could shake a textbook at. Find yourself a seat, settle down, and dive into reading.

Don’t forget to check out the weekly specials, and we’re into the final stretch of the Summer Campaign! In fact today features the very last one, the history of Europe! If you enjoyed this series let us know, because maybe if we’re lucky we’ll do it again sometime. Got any suggestions? Things you liked or didn’t like? Tell us your thoughts!

Check out the Raiders of the Lost Archaeology Floating Feature! It’s brilliant.

Today is a special day as well! The very last of our Summer Floating Features is happening RIGHT NOW! Go, run and see It's not Holy and It's not Roman, but it is the European History Floating Feature. Write your own contributions, check out the amazing comments, and it’ll all get shouted out next week.

We’ve got a new format for Media Monday’s, with the first one being Media Mondays: Kingdom of Heaven led by /u/Valkine.

The Thursday Reading and Recommendations.

The Friday Free For All had a fair bit of fun discussion.

Don’t forget the Saturday Showcase! Featuring some great /u/Klesk_vs_Xaero and /u/PM_ME_UR_SADDLEBREDS

Anyways, that’s it for the week. I’ll leave you with another fine digest courtesy of the amazing flairs and nonflairs that populate this sub.

So I want to take a slightly different approach. This is a wrongly-premised question, but I feel that if someone was to take a good swag at it, they could help correct the knowledge a severely-misinformed person and thus help stem the tide of conspiracy theories geared toward historical revisionism (e.g. aliens built pyramids, according to "scientists"). I don't have the knowledge to answer it, though.

https://www.reddit.com/r/AskHistorians/comments/d280w7/the_pyramid_dilemma/

This answer by /u/PangeranDipanagara to a question by /u/Kojonami was really cool. I thought this was a troll question at first.

https://www.reddit.com/r/AskHistorians/comments/d44373/what_caused_the_1850s_bruh_spike/

Let’s show some love for some of the fascinating questions that haven’t yet gotten worthy answers. Feel free to post them up in the thread and maybe some good hearted wandering scholar will come take a crack at them.

/u/Nomsheep had a couple of questions that stuck out at me. Like How would people have worshipped Quetzalcoatl?

How advanced was midwifery in the middle ages?

The Great Soviet Encyclopedia Большая советская энциклопедия of what use is this as a source?

/u/Mr_Westerfield asked How unusual were the Crusader States? Were they uniquely unsustainable?

Two weeks to catch up on!

/u/50shadesofbray answered "How did official commemoration of the Holocaust differ between West Germany and East Germany? Did both countries have conflicting memories about the events of World War Two?"

/u/alvisefalier answered "Soviet Influence in Italy, Post-War?"

/u/artificial_doctor on "In South Africa during the period between 1950-1959, how was the quality of life for blacks compared to those who lived in colonies within the British Empire?"

That Zhukov fella' wrote about "During WWII the American cinema was extremely active producing Hollywood style war movies. Wikipedia lists hundreds of movies produced by the Axis during this time. Where can these be found today? Which ones were the most influential at the time? Which ones were the most over embellished?" and "Why the did (and still does) the KKK dress in pointy, white robes?"

I was looking if anybody had asked if Hannah's Arendt's book "Origins of Totalitarianism" is still readable today and whether or not it contains outdated information and I stumbled upon this extremely detailed and in-depth answer from 2 years ago. I know this post is only relevant to answers made in past week but the answer given by u/commiespaceinvader is just too good not to be not mentioned again.

How were Polish troops able to hold the Wehrmacht at bay during the Battle of Wizna? by /u/Noble_Devil_Boruta What do we know of the Lusitanian Language? by /u/keylian and /u/depanneur