Lisa Hams

Archaeologists have made a stunning discovery inside a 1,600-year-old Egyptian mummy — a fragment of Homer's Iliad. The papyrus was found tucked inside the gut of a mummy unearthed in Tomb 65 at Oxyrhynchus, an ancient city located 118 miles south of Cairo. The excavation was carried out between November and December 2025 by a team including researchers from the University of Barcelona and the Institute of Ancient Near East Studies. This marks the first time a Greek literary text has been found incorporated into the mummification process. Previous discoveries at Oxyrhynchus had turned up Greek papyri used in burials, but their contents were always magical or ritualistic in nature. The fragment found within the mummy belongs to Book II of the Iliad, a section known as the Catalogue of Ships, which lists the Greek forces that sailed to Troy. The Iliad, composed around 800 BC, is widely considered the cornerstone of Western literature and centers on the Trojan War and the fate of the warrior Achilles. Researchers are still unsure why this particular literary passage was chosen for the embalming ritual. The funerary complex also yielded other remarkable finds, including mummies adorned with gold tongues and fingernails, heart scarabs, and amulets depicting gods such as Horus, Thoth, and Isis. #archaeohistories

Vincas Juska, a Lithuanian book smuggler that transport language books into Lithuania proper circa late 1800s, Smugglers like Juška transported books a across the border to preserve the Lithuanian language and culture, March 16th is celebrated in Lithuania as the Day of the Book Smugglers. In the late 19th century, preserving a language became an act of quiet rebellion. After the 1863 uprising, the Russian Empire banned Lithuanian publications printed in the Latin alphabet, attempting to replace them with Cyrillic and suppress cultural identity. In response, a network of ordinary people, farmers, teachers, laborers, became “knygnešiai” (book smugglers), secretly carrying banned books across borders from places like East Prussia. Figures like Vincas Juška moved texts by foot, often at night, risking arrest, exile to Siberia, or imprisonment. Between 1864 and 1904, thousands of books were smuggled this way, sustaining literacy and national identity during a 40-year ban. This wasn’t just about books, it was about survival of a culture. It’s estimated that over 3 million illegal publications were smuggled into Lithuania during the ban, one of the largest organized literary resistance movements in European history. © Historical Photos #archaeohistories

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In late 19th and early 20th Centuries, a dangerous idea gained the authority of science. It was called eugenics, and it promised something seductive to governments and social planners: the ability to improve humanity itself. Supporters argued that poverty, disability, mental illness, criminal behavior, and even what they called “immorality” were hereditary defects. If those traits could be prevented from being passed on, they believed society would become healthier, stronger, and more productive. What began as theory quickly turned into policy. In 1907, the state of Indiana passed the first law in the world allowing compulsory sterilization. The targets were people labeled “unfit”—a vague category that often included the disabled, people living in poverty, prisoners, and those confined to mental institutions. Other states followed rapidly. By the 1930s, more than thirty U.S. states had sterilization laws. Doctors, judges, and public officials decided who would never be allowed to have children. Many of the victims were young women. Some had been placed in institutions for reasons that today seem disturbingly minor: being considered “slow,” becoming pregnant outside marriage, having epilepsy, or simply being poor and difficult to control. In some cases they were told they were undergoing routine surgery. In others, consent was obtained through intimidation or deception. The justification was always the same: society must be protected from “bad heredity.” In 1927, the United States Supreme Court gave the movement its most chilling endorsement. In the case of Buck v. Bell, the Court ruled that forced sterilization was constitutional. Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr. wrote the infamous line: “Three generations of imbeciles are enough.” The young woman at the center of the case, Carrie Buck, had been institutionalized after becoming pregnant from rape. Her mother had been labeled “feebleminded,” and authorities decided Carrie and her infant daughter represented a defective family line that should be ended. The ruling opened the floodgates. Over the next several decades, more than 60,000 Americans were forcibly sterilized under eugenic laws. California alone carried out over a third of those procedures. The practice disproportionately targeted people already on the margins—poor women, immigrants, people with disabilities, Native Americans, and Black women in the South. Across the Atlantic, American eugenics programs were studied carefully by another regime obsessed with racial “purity.” Nazi Germany adopted similar sterilization laws in 1933, citing U.S. precedents. Hundreds of thousands of Germans were sterilized before the policy escalated into the far more lethal programs of the Holocaust. After World War II exposed the horrors of Nazi racial policy, many assumed the ideology behind sterilization had collapsed. But the practice did not vanish. In the United States, forced or coerced sterilizations continued well into the 1960s and 1970s. Investigations later revealed thousands of Native American women had been sterilized through federal health programs, often without full consent. Black women in the South reported similar abuses, a practice so common it acquired a grim nickname: the “Mississippi appendectomy.” Similar patterns appeared around the world. In Sweden, a national sterilization program continued until 1975. In Peru during the 1990s, thousands of Indigenous women were sterilized under a government population-control campaign. In several countries, people with disabilities have continued to face sterilization without full autonomy over their reproductive choices. The common thread across all of these cases was power. Decisions about who deserved to reproduce were rarely made by those whose bodies were affected. They were made by governments, medical authorities, and social elites convinced they knew how to engineer a better future. © Women In World History #archaeohistories

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Some things change you overnight. I wrote about my experience.

Tupac released his fourth album, 'All Eyez On Me' 30 years ago today. 💿 The album sits on Rolling Stone's 500 Greatest Albums of All Time list.

John Watkiss - Birth of Free Will

Can confirm... you WILL get chills watching this. What a ride 2006 was.

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Congratulations to senior Ona Pela on his Mini-Maxwell award 🔴⚪️⚫️ Ona was honored as one of the top football players in the tri-state area ‼️ @MaxwellFootball @ona_pela

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Jake Fischer on Miami trading Bam Adebayo: “I don’t think Miami has any plans on trading Bam Adebayo whatsoever.” FO sees him as a Heat lifer.

This commercial will forever run through my mind during the holidays

Inspired by the greatest love story of all time. “Wuthering Heights” only in theaters this Valentine’s Day.

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I’m not a huge Big Pun fan but “dead in the middle of Little Italy little did we know that we riddled some middle man who didn’t do diddly” was a transcendent rhyme

@CoachDrob65 @CHE_Fball Fantastic season Coach & Cougars!! 🤍❣️

Proud to have a chance to lead this special group of players and coaches ‼️ Not the ending we expected, but the journey was enjoyable every step of the way ❤️ @CHE_Fball #TheNewStandard

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Full list above him: 68. Tyler Herro 67. Cam Johnson 66. Deni Avdija 65. Aaron Nesmith 64. Lu Dort 63. LaMelo Ball 62. Christian Braun 61. Zion Williamson 60. Austin Reaves 59. Jalen Suggs 58. Trey Murphy 57. Myles Turner 56. Isaiah Hartenstein 55. Dyson Daniels 54. Paul George 53. Alex Caruso 52. Cooper Flagg 51. Draymond Green

Tyler Herro comes in at 68th on ESPN’s Top 100 list 👀 Some players ranked higher than him: •Aaron Nesmith •Deni Avdija •Christian Braun •Austin Reaves Do you agree? 👇