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New discoveries from Mycenaean Pylos in southwest Greece were the focus of an exhibition inaugurated in early 2025 at the Archaeological Museum of Messenia (Kalamata). This exhibition traveled to the ...

Here is a list of a few Language Log posts discussing the issue (these were written for fun more than scholarship, so the tone — as usual on Language Log — ranges from light-hearted detachment through stern criticism to mock rage):

Only hypocrisy, dishonesty, and pointless nitpicking result from the rule that supposedly bans “which” from restrictive relative clauses, says Geoff Pullum.

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With a soulful sound and soul-baring lyrics, the Afghan Whigs rode the post-Nirvana boom to the big leagues. Their frontman explains his exploration of the male ego – and how Usher got the band back t...

With its emphasis on craft and a PR campaign tailored to the genius of its director, Christopher Nolan’s “Odyssey” wants to save cinema from the fangs of AI. But for all its visual magnificence, the f...

A new lidar survey of dense Amazonian rainforest has revealed hundreds of earthworks made by a mysterious civilization two millennia ago.

Using canopy-penetrating LiDAR data, the northern part of southwestern Amazonia appears to contain as many earthworks as previously estimated for the whole of Amazonia.

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Abstract. Around 1200 bce, the Mycenaean palace centres of mainland Greece and Crete were destroyed along with, presumably, the states they governed; key a

Abstract. Observations at Mycenaean archaeological sites of tilted and curved walls, broken pottery, and human skeletons led to the hypothesis that these