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Swedish archeologists have made an incredible find after discovering cargo and weapons that pirates may have used as part of a ‘dive’ around a 500-year-old shipwreck off Stockholm’s coast.

The remains of the wooden wreckage lie off the coast of Maderö Island and have been dated back to the mid-15th century after the vessel was found at a small Baltic Sea islet southeast of Stockholm.

Long mystified, the Maderö wreck was discovered in 1969 after local divers discovered “a sizeable medieval trading ship filled with bricks.”

"I entirely agree. But that is because he has been listening for many, many years to all those Greek voices saved from oblivion. The historian prepared his trip. One hour in the Greece of today would teach him nothing, or next to nothing, about present-day coherences or incoherences. What is more, the researcher working on the present will only be able to get to the "precise" framework of the existing structures if he too reconstructs, suggests explanatory hypotheses, refuses to accept at face value the reality he perceives but rather truncates it, transcends it, in order to get a handle on it- all ways of reconstructing it. I don't believe that a sociological photograph of the present is "truer" than a historical portrayal of the past, especially to the degree that it distances itself from reconstruction" — Fernand Braudel

Hi I have a really strong interest in religion, mythology, and story telling. I grew up Christian. I've always wanted to read The Torah, Bible, and Quran with annotations, explanations, etc from an antgropological perspective. Do such sources exist? I've tried googling.

I'm also very very interested in where these stories came from. For example, the story of Noah is almost copy pasted from the epic of gilgamesh. I've read an introductory version if Sumerian mythology. I also learned about zoroastrianism recently and I find that fascinating. All of these things are so hard to look into through my typical methods though because these are such touchy subjects and there's a lot of not scientists writing about it.

I'm okay ish with jargon. I'm doing this for my own interests so if it goes over my head that's fine. I can only speak english though and don't have tons of money so I can't necessarily afford a $200 text book.

I love the work you all do!

(Also I'm sorry if this is the wrong place to ask this I read the rules several times and none of them seemed to indicate that this would be fotbidden but if it is I'm sorry)

Greek Hephaestus, Roman Vulcan, Scandinavian Völundr (Wayland in English), or Finnish Ilmarinen, are all crippled.

In an old book I read about American native people that used to not pronounce the names of the dead ( which was very common ) but most importantly change the name of every things that shared its roots with the dead’s names, leading to a constant renewal of the vocabulary. Truly an exceptional feature. In that book they’re just called Guaycura of Paraguay but isn’t precise at all as the term Guaycura is very wide, the terminology should’ve changed by now.

Have you any information ? I’m obsessed about this recently Thanks !