Today's video is about the incredible Stele of the Vultures from ancient Sumer.

Dating to about 2450 BC, this is the oldest known monument commemorating a war.

It's got soldiers in formation led by the king, and mounds of bodies being circled by vultures.

It's a celebration of state organised ultraviolence!

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Late Roman era salt making in south Essex, England.

It wouldn't have actually looked like this, the artist has included every technique and process in a tiny area just as an informative info rich image, rather than replicating reality.

Art by Mark Gridley

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Yes, it's the story of prehistoric salt production!

Featuring the Chalcolithic salt fortress of Solnitsata, the Bronze Age Hallstatt salt mines, and the Iron Age salt marshes of Essex.

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This valuable substance was critical to the lives of our ancestors but unlike copper, iron, and gold artefacts, we can't see it archeologically.

So how was gold extracted and processed in prehistoric Europe? And how did it transform ancient societies?

You can see the whole story here right now.

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My latest video is a retouched and improved upload from 2022. I came across two articles from newspapers in 1915 in which soldiers present at the Battle of Mons claimed to see phantom horsemen during the great retreat. This is their account:

https://youtu.be/qVXtiRALFa8?si=UdbOkvhrEDrVbRyJ

They perfected skull crusher tech very early on.

Photo of artifacts of the Khvalynsk culture (cultural relative of Sredny Stog)

Source of photo taken from the following paper:
The Eneolithic cemetery at Khvalynsk on the Volga River - David W Anthony, AA Khokhlov, S A Agapov, D S Agapov, R Schulting, I Olalde, and D Reich https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC11699484/

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The Vinča symbols from Chalcolithic “Old Europe” date to before 5000 BC, predating Sumerian cuneiform in Mesopotamia by well over a thousand years.

Is this the world's first writing? And what do these symbols mean?

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You can find out more about the mysterious Gradeshnitsa Tablet from Chalcolithic Bulgaria in this new video here.

Does it have some of the earliest writing in the world or is it just decoration?

Shorts are pretty handy for highlighting specific artefacts.

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