Paul Cooper
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A thread on the maps and cartography of ancient Mesopotamia: how the people of Babylon & Assyria made maps, what they used them for, and how they imagined the shape
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I fell down a bit of a ruins research rabbithole today, thought I'd share some of my weird journey.It started with this incredible 1858 photo of the Temple of Olympian
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When botanist Richard Deakin examined Rome’s Colosseum in the 1850s, he found 420 species of plant growing in the ruins: cypresses & ilex, pea plants & over 50 types of
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