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I only had time to listen to the first presenters, who discussed dna in the context of PCAs. The rest all seemed to be about culture, diet etc. Basically, most of the people buried in the Phoenician settlements were standard issue Central Mediterraneans, with only 1 "Levantine" like sample...

It's probably partly things like that. I wouldn't get that "shuvia" means "lluvia" unless the context gave it away. To rain in Italian is piovere, the rain is pioggia, and it's raining is piove. The etymology is pluere in Latin, which became plovere, which became piovere...

I liked the first two episodes, although I didn't find the creatures particularly scary. Maybe because I found them sort of "pretty"? I didn't much like the third episode. It was like a Hallmark Movie about a gay couple. The scariest "zombie" type movie/series I've ever seen was "Train to...

Well, I can get most of it, but I expected it to be the easiest for me to understand and it isn't. I find Mexican Spanish and Castilian less "work". The Castilian may be because that's the "brand" of Spanish I learned in school, but also, to me, Castilian, like Mexican, is clearly enunciated. I...

Have you read no history at all? What do you think kings did; what actions did their people believe made them great kings? The history of Europe is the history of one country or another seeking hegemony in western Europe. Henry V of England is considered one of the greatest of English kings...

Honestly, this is taking resentment that he got rid of the stagnant, doddering, Venetian oligarchy much too far. Whatever else he was, Napoleon was not crazy, or a lunatic, and far from mindless. The French behavior in Venezia was inexcusable in many respects, but putting an end to...

Honestly, this is taking resentment that he got rid of the stagnant, doddering, Venetian oligarchy much too far. Whatever else he was, Napoleon was not crazy, or a lunatic, and far from mindless. The French behavior in Venezia was inexcusable in many respects, but putting an end to...

As I always said, Napoleon's e-m34 could have arrived in Italy during the Bronze Age or the Iron Age. I thought then and think now that paper which proposed it was Moorish in origin was rather silly. They based it on the fact that one of his ancestors had the nickname "Il Moro". Apparently, no...

Perfect soup for dank, dark, drizzly days like today. Added benefit: the garlic will help keep you healthy. For the record I don't much care for Italian Wedding Soup, which I only tasted here as it isn't made in my part of Italy, and I think this soup is far superior. If you really love...

See: Ancient genome of Empress Ashina reveals the Northeast Asian origin of Göktürk Khanate - Yang - Journal of Systematics and Evolution - Wiley Online Library Well, now it should be easy to figure out the amount of Gokturk in various parts of Turkey.

The musicality of it, the cadence, the intonation,makes it sound as if it should be Italian, but I find it among the least understandable versions of Spanish.

The color of the mummy has nothing to do with the color of the man's skin when alive. The Ancient Egyptians preserved the human body by drying it out with a salt-like substance called natron and applying plant resins to the skin. Both these processes darken the colour of the skin, and the few...

Interesting variation autosomally. I don't recall this ever being done on the EEF in, for example, the Balkans or for Greek Neolithic either, or maybe my memory is faulty. It would be interesting to see. Did the group that went to Europe have the Levant admixture, or the Iranian farmer one, and...

^^Exactly right. Amazing how some people see what they want to see.

The Belle Epoque definitely had an ideal of beauty, and the women who rose from quasi-or-actual prostitution to become acclaimed beauties and courtesans exemplified it. Cleo de Nerode, a ballerina at the Paris Opera and later the Folies Bergere, who claimed to be the illegitimate daughter of a...

Farmers and Foragers - Archaeology Magazine "A village founded around 8,200 years ago on the banks of the Danube River in Serbia’s Iron Gates Gorge has puzzled archaeologists ever since it was excavated in the 1960s. Called Lepenski Vir, the community seemed to combine traits of local...

Elvis Presley singing Santa Lucia. He sang a lot of Italian songs beautifully in his shows and on his albums, but I'm partial to this one.

Really good video with amazing reconstructions.

See: Ancient Siberian genomes reveal genetic backflow from North America across the Bering Sea -- ScienceDaily "The movement of people across the Bering Sea from North Asia to North America is a well-known phenomenon in early human history. Nevertheless, the genetic makeup of the people who...

See: Don't know how accurate this still is. If not, just let me know.