The History Channel--examining and re-imagining the past

It strikes me that we don't have a thread solely devoted to history's long reach.

Allow me to get things started with a piece that suggests the Roman Empire wasn't nearly as vast and ubiquitous as it seemed...even when it was at its height:

https://medium.com/@writingben/when-roman-barbarians-met-the-asian-enlightenment...

I posted this one on Facebook--Neanderthal spirituality:

https://www.newscientist.com/article/mg23230934-800-cave-fires-and-rhino-skull-u...

Fritz Haber: the man who perfected chlorine gas and synthetic fertilizers that would feed millions:

https://medium.com/the-mission/the-tragedy-of-fritz-haber-the-monster-who-fed-th...

Excellent article on the botched coup in Turkey this summer and its repercussions:

http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2016/10/17/turkeys-thirty-year-coup

Love to shoot a film here--what a backdrop:

http://www.bbc.com/travel/story/20161011-an-ancient-world-concealed-underground

>2 CliffBurns: - this was on the BBC this week as part of current Horizon series - The Lost Tribes of Humanity". It appears that thousands of years humans were not alone.

I'll definitely have a look at that, thanks.

A U-boat sunk by a sea monster? Sounds like the captain's been drinking too much schnapps:

http://www.cbc.ca/news/technology/100-year-old-german-u-boat-found-off-scottish-...

A man hunting Soviet-era crimes runs afoul of Putin & Co.:

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2017/aug/03/gulag-grave-hunter-yury-dmitriyev-...

(Thanks, God)

Mary Beard gets in trouble for saying the Romans were ethnically diverse:

https://www.the-tls.co.uk/roman-britain-black-white/

(Cheers, Good)

The largest bomb ever exploded:

http://www.bbc.com/future/story/20170816-the-monster-atomic-bomb-that-was-too-bi...

>11 CliffBurns: So Dr.Strangelove wasn't so far from the truth after all.

BBC recently ran a lovely piece on the discoveries of the Voyager spacecraft:

http://www.bbc.com/future/story/20170818-voyager-inside-the-worlds-greatest-spac...

Insightful article on the distorted history of the Russian Revolution:

https://newrepublic.com/article/144891/radical-hopes-russian-revolution?utm_cont...

Daniel Ellsberg is still alive, still making history:

http://nymag.com/daily/intelligencer/2017/11/daniel-ellsberg-on-the-doomsday-mac...

Great piece on the origins and results of World War II:

https://www.theguardian.com/theobserver/2019/sep/01/ascherson-into-the-storm-sec...