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Here's a question: What was there to do at the symposion besides drink and ogle the dancers? (Please don't answer "have philosophical conversation" because we're already drunk.) Egyptians had senet. Romans had ludus latrunculorum. Persians had shatranj. Vikings had hnefatafl. What did the...

What kind of mind-altering substances have Europeans been using early on in history and prehistory? For example: Cannabis is indigenous to India and central Asia; when did it make its way to Europe? The hallucinogenic mushroom Psilocybe semilanceata is native to many areas of Europe. Is...

What did ancient egyptians look like? Especially, how did the Egyptians of the Middle Kingdom differ from Cyrus' Persians, or Alexander's Greeks, or Caesar's Romans? I absolutely love the maps you have up at "Distribution maps of autosomal admixtures in Europe, the Middle East and North...