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In search of Troy
https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/i...180979553/
EXCERPT: Aslan is an amiable, shaggy-haired scholar with a scraggly beard and mustache. He began working as a student here in 1988, and spent years as a protégé of the German archaeologist Manfred Korfmann, who made several important discoveries.
Thanks in part to their work, most historians now believe that the city uncovered at Hisarlik is the Troy Homer wrote about, and that a war or series of wars did in fact play out between the Mycenaean Greeks and Anatolians here around 1180 B.C., at the end of the late Bronze Age.
And yet some historians still disagree about how large the city was, what drew the city into conflict with the Mycenaeans, whether it was a powerful regional player or a minor backwater, and whether the characters described by Homer were based on real people or were as mythical as the Greek gods.... (MORE - missing details)
The fascinating history of black people with naturally blonde hair
https://historyofyesterday.com/the-fasci...fc5fba69eb
EXCERPT: The Melanesian people are well known for their unique physical features: naturally blonde hair and beautiful dark skin. The blonde hair is a spectacular point of interest that is common amongst 5- 10 percent of the indigenous population.
Over the years, there have been many assumptions and postulations on how the Melanesians got their blonde hair. While some scientists ascribe it to be a gene flow from European traders and explorers that visited in the past, the local people have insisted that they got their blonde hair from constant exposure to the sun and their rich fish diet.
Every attempt to link their hair to foreign influence or dealings with foreigners is constantly debunked.
Further research has also revealed that the particular variant responsible for blonde hair amongst these inhabitants of the Solomon Islands is absent in the European genomes. This result also aligns with another genetic study that confirmed that the Islanders who are very dark-skinned, possess a homegrown gene that makes their blonde hair quite different from that of the Europeans.
Researchers from Stanford University School of Medicine have also added that the human characteristics of blonde hair seem to have arisen independently in Oceania... (MORE - missing details)
https://www.youtube-nocookie.com/embed/NakiG3-CRyc
https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/i...180979553/
EXCERPT: Aslan is an amiable, shaggy-haired scholar with a scraggly beard and mustache. He began working as a student here in 1988, and spent years as a protégé of the German archaeologist Manfred Korfmann, who made several important discoveries.
Thanks in part to their work, most historians now believe that the city uncovered at Hisarlik is the Troy Homer wrote about, and that a war or series of wars did in fact play out between the Mycenaean Greeks and Anatolians here around 1180 B.C., at the end of the late Bronze Age.
And yet some historians still disagree about how large the city was, what drew the city into conflict with the Mycenaeans, whether it was a powerful regional player or a minor backwater, and whether the characters described by Homer were based on real people or were as mythical as the Greek gods.... (MORE - missing details)
The fascinating history of black people with naturally blonde hair
https://historyofyesterday.com/the-fasci...fc5fba69eb
EXCERPT: The Melanesian people are well known for their unique physical features: naturally blonde hair and beautiful dark skin. The blonde hair is a spectacular point of interest that is common amongst 5- 10 percent of the indigenous population.
Over the years, there have been many assumptions and postulations on how the Melanesians got their blonde hair. While some scientists ascribe it to be a gene flow from European traders and explorers that visited in the past, the local people have insisted that they got their blonde hair from constant exposure to the sun and their rich fish diet.
Every attempt to link their hair to foreign influence or dealings with foreigners is constantly debunked.
Further research has also revealed that the particular variant responsible for blonde hair amongst these inhabitants of the Solomon Islands is absent in the European genomes. This result also aligns with another genetic study that confirmed that the Islanders who are very dark-skinned, possess a homegrown gene that makes their blonde hair quite different from that of the Europeans.
Researchers from Stanford University School of Medicine have also added that the human characteristics of blonde hair seem to have arisen independently in Oceania... (MORE - missing details)