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Oppa ReactsOppaReacts
2026-01-19

Ancient Mysteries We Solved in the Last Decade youtu.be/2Qu5s-t0AiE?si=Qh_y2S

Dag-Rune ZAskDRZ@pixelfed.social
2026-01-19
An evening with comfort Khmer seafood BBQ

Who says things need to be complicated when produce has high quality?

Tiger shrimps, squids and veggies on the BBQ, freshly steamed local rice and one of M’me Khmer chefs own, home made dipping sauces.

And a beer.

That is great eating and comfort food and drinks. A great Saturday in Siem Reap, Cambodia.


For seafood lovers
Cambodia is a great country for seafood lovers. Or, I think the technical term is aquatic based protein.

In a typical, classical Khmer diet around 60 percent of the protein are shellfish and crayfish from river, lake or sea. All important part of Cambodias geography. Ad some fresh vegetables, and home made dipping sauces mixing salt, sweet, spicy, and umami flavours.

And flavourful steamed Khmer rice.

The Forbes Magazine recently advised people loving good food and unique experiences to travel to Cambodia. For the special cuisine with great flavours and no long queues.


https://www.forbes.com/sites/vickysmith/2026/01/16/visit-this-underrated-country-for-great-southeast-asian-food-without-the-crowds/


#2018CE #ancient #Angkor #angkorfood #chive #art #BBQ #Buddhism #Cambodia #life #countryside #day #trip #eating #Empire #foodie #greentourism #history #imperial #Kampuchea #Khmer #ladyfingers #squid #shrimps #crayfish #shellfish #localfood #Nikkor #Nikon #Pagoda #prawn #seafood #SiemReab #siemreap #southeastasia #stuengthmeyvillage #SvayDangkum #Commune #visitcambodia #visitsiemreap #worldculturalheritage #food #foodie
Photo shows top of a barbecue square BBQ grill top. A collection of skewers with ladyfinger or okra vegetables, shrimps, small squids is filling the grill area. Under the food there are glims of red hot charcoal giving heat and flavour to the food. Cambodia is as safe, comfortable and kind as ever. Angkor and Siem Reap warmly welcomes visitors as the home of several cultural world heritage sites and good food. Cambodia is as safe, comfortable and kind as ever. Angkor and Siem Reap warmly welcomes visitors.
Karl TheodorKarl_Theodor
2026-01-19

🌱 in

Jewish mysticism, or , references cannabis as well. The “🌱 ” mentioned in the , used in the anointing oil described in , is believed by some scholars to be cannabis. This played a role in to anoint as well as , highlighting the importance of cannabis in .

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Ancient Originsancientorigins
2026-01-19

?? TRENDING NOW: The Long Fascination With the Chastity Belt "“ But Was it Just A Fantasy?
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Ancient Originsancientorigins
2026-01-19

?? FASCINATING DISCOVERY: The Mythology of Nut, Mother of Gods
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Seanxgmrct@www.bookandsword.com
2026-01-18

A Quick Note on “Two Battles in Three Years”

Detail of an early reproduction of the Darius Mosaic in Pompeii. This is in the Hermitage Museum, St Petersburg. I doubt I will return to Russia anytime soon!

Twice in The Western Way of War (1989, my copy Oxford University Press 1990) Victor Davis Hanson makes similar statements:

In the fifth and fourth centuries, battle broke out in the Greek world nearly two out of every three years, so the chances were good that a man would have to leave his farm, take up his arms, fight in repeated engagements, and fall wounded or die one summer’s day in battle. (p. 31)

For the citizen of the fifth-century Greek city-state who saw battle of some type on an average of two out of three years, the changes were good that he would not die a natural death: in one of those years of his long service he would likely become one of the dead or wounded (p. 89)

A moment’s thought shows that this is incorrect. Even during the Peloponnesian Wars Athens or Sparta only fought a battle every few years, and not all Athenian hoplites or Spartiates fought in every battle. Plato’s Socrates was proud to have fought in one battle, a siege, and an expedition and he was an adult during intensive warfare (Plato, Apology, 28e, Symposium 219-221).1 What could Hanson have meant by the passages above?

There is no way to know for sure where Hanson found this figure because Western Way of War was written as a trade book without footnotes or endnotes. It was originally published with Alfred A. Knopf, and only taken over by Oxford University Press when it sold well. Even though it is included on many grad-school reading lists, its not written to academic standards of evidence.

Fred Eugene Ray Jr. has found about 360 historically-attested battles involving Greeks in the fifth and fourth centuries BCE.2 While scholars in the 1980s might not have listed all of them, I doubt that Hanson had a statistic for the number of battles per year which showed less than one battle per year.

It looks to me like Hanson read (or heard in a lecture?) some statistic along the line of “Classical Athens was at war almost two years out of three.” He then started to generalize this and sharpen it. Classical Athens (a very large, wealthy, and warlike city) stood for “the fifth-century Greek city-state.” This is the Everest Fallacy, because Athens was very large, wealthy, and warlike and is the center of most surviving sources. The USA is bombing some other country almost every year, but Denmark can go decades without sending troops into combat. It would not be accurate to say that NATO countries bomb someone almost every year when just the UK, France, and Germany have wildly different experiences.

As Hanson sharpened his rhetoric, “at war” became “fighting” became “seeing battle” even though most ancient Greek warfare was raids, marching through enemy territory burning, stickups, piracy, naval battles, being let into a city by a discontented faction, and skirmishes. Battles were prestigious but not the most common form of warfare and did not involve all of a large city’s forces. This also often happens as people retell stories and quotes are reworded or assigned to more famous or ‘appropriate’ people. Hanson never wanted to be a research academic, he wanted to be a farmer who gave talks to people in small-town California, and he only reluctantly submitted to the standards of academic writing like fact-checking and making sure that your logic holds up. He wrote The Western Way of War as a busy assistant professor with small children at home, and as he became rich and famous he never went back and revised it.

I have asked some colleagues and will update this post if we can guess which statistics about Athens being at war two years in three Hanson had read. Roel Konijnendijk has found the claim that Classical Athens was at war almost two years out of three in Yvon Garlan’s La Guerre dans l’Antiquité (1972). For more discussion see Bret Devereaux’s original post.

(scheduled 17 January 2026, updated and posted 18 January 2026)

  1. It is possible that he helped suppress the Samian revolt in 440 but the single late source is not clear that his trip to Samos was a military expedition: Daniel W. Graham, “Socrates on Samos,” The Classical Quarterly, New Series, Vol. 58, No. 1 (May, 2008), pp. 308-313 ↩︎
  2. Land Battles in 5th Century BC Greece: A History and Analysis of 173 Engagements and Greek and Macedonian Land Battles of the 4th Century B.C.: A History and Analysis of 187 Engagements both from McFarland. These are not academic books either but Ray worked to source his claims in ancient evidence. ↩︎

#ancient #bonusPost #DariusMosaic #earlyGreekWarfare #hopliteWars #methodology #SocratesTheHoplite
a glazed tile mosaic of a cavalry battle. One horse has fallen and a dark-skinned rider in tunic and leggings grasps at a spear which had stabbed him in the belly and gone out the other side
Passed Wonderpassedwonder@mastodonapp.uk
2026-01-18

In a world devastated by climate change and social fragmentation, our only hope is to reach out to #ancient and #abandoned powers to save us, hope they can restore what was lost.

#photography #history #technology #London #RiverBrent #LondonsRivers #TellingStories

A 3.5 inch floppy disk is splattered with mud, lying on earth near a river.
stevethewalkingdeaf@pixelfed.social
2026-01-18
Man's Best Friend, in Chester.
#AltText #ancient #architecturalPhotography #Chester #ChesterPhotography #chiaroscuro #dog #fediverse #historic #mastodonPhotography #medieval #myPhoto #myWork #NoAI #No2AI #OC #people #photography #pixelfed #shadows #stonework #streetPhotography #sunlight #TheCross #UK #urban #urbanPhotography #viltrox35mmF17
Photograph taken from above showing people gathered at The Cross in Chester, with medieval stone architecture, warm street lighting creating shadows, and figures sitting on benches with a small dog.
Steve Dustcircle 🌹dustcircle
2026-01-18

How the managed their (it wasn't just by hiding )

livescience.com/archaeology/ho

mythologyandhistorymythologyandhistory@mas.to
2026-01-18

Did you know that #Ancient #Greek mothers used a female boogey(wo)man to frighten their children?

If children considered misbehaving, they would be warned that Mormo, a scary wolfish #woman, would come and bite them, rendering them lame.

They may be related to Hecate, a multifaceted #goddess capable of #witchcraft

#mythology

JilanicoJilanico
2026-01-18

We need to bring back the lopsided man bun.

The face of a terracotta soldier.Back of the head of a terracotta soldier.A scene from the movie Hero depicting Jet Li with a similar hairstyle to the terracotta soldiers.
Ancient Originsancientorigins
2026-01-18

?? AMAZING REVELATION: Ubasute: Is the Ancient Tradition of Dumping the Elderly in a Forest Encouraging Modern Murder?
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Thomas Blackheart (TC)Thomas_Blackheart
2026-01-18

The Edge Of The Abyss. A large hole in the ground attracts an adventurers attention. youtu.be/cNW9PKD9e_U?si=EpWIwl .

Thomas Blackheart (TC)Thomas_Blackheart
2026-01-18

Monolith. The Music Video. An adventurer seeks an ancient artefact. youtu.be/5dbrVysilMQ?si=KsbW7P

Ancient Originsancientorigins
2026-01-18

?? INCREDIBLE FIND: The House of Wisdom: One of the Greatest Libraries in History
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Ancient Originsancientorigins
2026-01-18

?? EXPLOSIVE DISCOVERY: Five of the Most Powerful and Influential Empires of the Ancient World
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Беларуская Вікіпедыяwiki_by@vkl.world
2026-01-17

Выява дня: Старажытны армянскі храм у Іране.

#photography #Temple #wikipedia #Armenian #Iran #Ancient

На выяве стаіць старадаўняя царква на фоне заснежаных пагоркаў. Усё вакол пакрыта белым снегам, ствараючы спакойную зімовую атмасферу.
Palm Oil Detectivespalmoildetectives@mastodonapp.uk
2026-01-17

#Turtles 🐢🐢have rich and #ancient symbology around the world 😻🌏 Far from being meek and mild, they're #warriors! Symbolic of our past, present and fragile future on earth. Help them survive! #Boycottpalmoil 🌴🩸☠️⛔️ #Boycott4Wildlife @palmoildetect.bsky.social palmoildetectives.com/2022/04/

Ancient Originsancientorigins
2026-01-17

?? FASCINATING DISCOVERY: Beaver's teeth 'used to carve the oldest wooden statue in the world'
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Nikolas KozloffNikolas@federated.press
2026-01-17

Hands off #ancient #Brazilian #whale
discovermagazine.com/5-000-yea #paleontology #whales #wildlife #archaeology

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