Kingdom Season 1 Trailer

If you haven’t given this historical fictitious Korean zombie apocalypse show a try I recommend it. While there are definitely aspects of it that could be improved the mixture of genres fit my fancy, as well as those of my female roommates. Swords and zombies that make ladies want to watch more says it all.

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Archaeology Magazine Part IV

https://www.archaeology.org/issues/302-1807

This article is a good example of association and assimilation of people over time rather then the often obliteration model that is used in history to explain the ‘what happened to these people’ question. For even though this household was eventually a casualty of a Roman civil war, the fact that they continued to prosper as a wealthy Etruscan family long after the Romans conquered the region shows the interdependence of the two cultures.

https://www.archaeology.org/issues/302-1807

Archaeology Magazine Part III


https://www.archaeology.org/issues/302-1807

One of the greatest elements to effect human evolution and progress is climate and environmental geography. The opening image of these ancient ruins surrounded by a now arid environment ( Sechura Desert ), it makes one wonder if it may have been more hospitable when it was built. On the other-hand these ruins lay just outside the modern day city of Lima, which is considered the world’s third largest desert city, and so this area must have maintained a level of abundance that provided for the people that existed in this area after these ruins disappeared under the desert. If so then what gave rise to the population that built its walls and then their disuse six hundred years later? What climatic impacts supported and then undermined their use?