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Hello I am quite curious, why the ancient Romans had in the public baths they were building, an elaborated Sauna system. If the Latins have migrated to Italy from Baltics areas (through Germany, Austria) it would make sense. Italy was a warm area even in the times of Romans. Another thing that...

Hello I have noticed that modern English and modern Italian languages are having at least some cognates. While I speak English quite well, I only understand most Italian words, but I do not speak Italian. So, I will start: EN -------------- IT Cat - Gatta Lake - Lago Toast - Tostare

Hello While the history of Romania, including Moldavia, has some gaps in it, some things are still known. I will start to present some short resemblances, in the folk culture and beliefs of Moldavia, with Lithuania. First: The symbol of Moldavia was the Auroch. The Auroch was a species of wild...

Hello I understand that is some areas from Austria, the percentage of J2 is quite significant. I do not have exact studies, just seen a claim that Salzburg might have 20% J2. If you have any studies about J2 in Austria, including in the Ladin minority, could you post here? Also, seems some...

Hello, Since I seen there is no thread in which people can discuss about the Gothic tribes, I thought to open one. For the start, I am posting here an article from a Danish guy: http://www.dandebat.dk/eng-dk-historie12.htm

Hello, I searched and read in the past, from the internet, multiple things about ancients Saxons. And what I found is that, during the migration of the Saxons to England, they were carrying a typical weapon, the Seax, which was a longer knife. The word Seax existed in Old English, meaning a...

Hello kind Ladies and Sirs, I was curious to know why the Vikings were raiding in the British Isles, but why there are not recorded any raids of the Vikings in Germany. It seems that the vicinity of the German Empire was one of the causes that triggered the Vikings to start migrate from...

Hello kind Ladies and Gents, (Gents is a funny term for Gentlemen) I will somehow pass over the introduction and will get into the subject, more directly. As a short note, I consider Celts and Gauls as same group of ethnicities. With the word Celts coming from the Greek Keltoi and the world...

You can download this paper for free from Academia.edu https://www.academia.edu/3763126/In_The_Footsteps_of_Rurik._A_guide_to_the_Viking_History_of_Northwest_Russia._By_Dan_Carlsson_and_Adrian_Selin

Hello, I was just looking on the blood groups distribution by country and have seen that Mongolia got around 55% 0+. They also got some B+, but not much, around 10%. I am not saying that R1B-M269 are coming from Mongols, but I am saying that is possible that R1B-M269 people were living near...

Hello I was curious, what is the earliest evidence of spoken Slavic language? Like some written document in Slavic or some serious documents from historians. I suppose that are not early archaeological evidences of Slavic languages. Also, what is the theory about Slavic languages, is there any...

Hello I have found evidences from more sources that ancient Celts were eating occasionally dog meat. First evidence: The life of mythical Irish hero Cú Chulainn: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/C%C3%BA_Chulainn#C%C3%BA_Chulainn%27s_death Cú Chulainn imposed himself as a taboo to not eat meat...

Hello all that you read this post, I have seen the blood groups distribution in Europe. First I have seen Jakub Marian map, which somehow is not so correct added the percentage for negative RH with positive RH. Jakub Marian summed the percentages for 0+ with 0-, of A+ with A-, of B+ and B- and...

http://bmcgenet.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/s12863-017-0487-5 I did not understood too much of it.

Hello Did anyone tried to make a study about ancient sheep herding and populations with more I1 or I2? What I know is that all populations from Balkans with more I2 and Romanians have sheep herding traditional. Sardinians, which also have an I2a branch as most common paternal line have sheep...

Hello I know that at ancient Romans, having a bath made with thermal waters was something very important. I also know that sweating was part of the bathing custom. As a strange thing, the only other people having such customs,in those ancient times,in Europe, were Greeks and Finns. I am...

Hello I was thinking, that current maps, of admixture, can be very deceiving. Why? For the simple reason that you can not know be sure who brought some admixture in some country. Different populations moved a lot in Europe. Take for example the Eastern Germanic tribes movements. Or take the...

Hello On wikipedia written in Polish,I have found a very nice article,about bees keeping at Ancient Slavs: https://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bar%C4%87 It is also mentioned there about a discovery from 100-200 AD,of some kind of primitive hive,attributed to Ancient Slavs. It also worth mentioning...

Having fun with Hay word in some South Slavic and Romance languages: Hay in : French: foins Italian: fieno Romanian: fân Spanish: heno Bulgarian : seno Serbian: seno Croatian: sijeno (Macedonian and Bosnian are having forms either same with Croatian either same with Serbian/Bulgarian). The...

It seems is not so known that English language also have some words of Celtic Origins. Here,a list of words of different Celtic languages origins,as taken from wikipedia.