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How Salt Shaped Civilization: From the Roman Empire to the French Revolution
From the very first settlement in recorded history, early humans knew that to survive in the new age of agriculture, they’d need two things: access to water, and a source of salt. Without salt, our meats and vegetables wouldn’t last … Continue reading
Europe’s Lost Civilisation, the Cucuteni Trypillians
You may be familiar with ancient cradles of civilisation like the Indus valley, Mesopotamia or Egypt , but what about Romania and Ukraine during the same era, over 6,000 years ago? Europe has its own ancient lost civilisation for … Continue reading
We should steal these words from French
[…] English has already borrowed thousands of words from French. However, there are still many beautiful and useful French words for which English has no equivalent. In this video, I introduce you to 10 of them (and propose we … Continue reading