Pessimists Archive (pessimistsarchive.org)
The Esoteric Symbolism of Animals in Kung Fu — Ultra Unlimited (www.ultra-unlimited.com)
Cleopatra's Daughter | History Today (www.historytoday.com)
Srivijaya: The Lost Kingdom of Gold (www.ultra-unlimited.com)
Aftershock of the New: Woodblock Prints of Post-Disaster Tokyo (1928–32) (publicdomainreview.org)
‘The Genius of Their Age’ Review: Central Asia’s Big Thinkers (www.wsj.com)
A rebel spirit and an artist’s eye: Russell Page’s landscape design | Aeon Essays (aeon.co)
Yugoslavia's Digital Twin — What happens when a country’s internet domain outlives the nation? (www.thedial.world)
Chaucer’s works go online (blogs.bl.uk)
Lessons from the Age of Coal (media.nesta.org.uk)
A 15th century French painting depicts an ancient stone tool (phys.org)
The History and Beauty of the Moscow Metro (www.thecollector.com)
Internet Artifacts: A History of the Internet (neal.fun)
Musashi Miyamoto: The Life of Japan's Legendary Swordsman (www.ultra-unlimited.com)
Inside the Welsh punk scene of the 1980s (www.huckmag.com)
Go in the Devil’s Name: When Isobel Gowdie confessed to being a witch, she spun a subversive, magical tale for her interrogators. (www.laphamsquarterly.org)
Colourful beauty of Parthenon marbles revealed in scientific analysis (www.theguardian.com)
Though the Parthenon marbles were admired for centuries for their stark white brilliance, it has long been known that the sculptures were originally brightly painted, before millennia of weathering, cannon bombardment, rough handling and overenthusiastic cleaning scoured them clean....
Monthly Review | Marxian Ecology, East and West: Joseph Needham and a Non-Eurocentric View of the Origins of China’s Ecological Civilization (monthlyreview.org)
cross-posted from: hexbear.net/post/803365...
Why it pays to read for acrostics in the Classics | Aeon Essays (aeon.co)
Brown, John | Civil War on the Western Border: The Missouri-Kansas Conflict, 1854-1865 (civilwaronthewesternborder.org)
This motherfucker attacked a pro slavery group with a broadsword. Hardcore.