1. Praise for The History Blog and its RSS feed
- “The History Blog is a small gem because it is serious and not sensational. Always with a good level of detail for the average interested visitor, and from the original (or close by) sources. Plus pictures.” — sherr
- “And they support RSS! Albeit through WordPress but nobody’s perfect.” — pluc
2. Long‑term preservation of information
- “What artifacts are we leaving which will allow people in 3400 years to get a glimpse of daily events in our lives?” — einpoklum
- “Digital information and toner/ink on paper will not last nearly that long.” — wl
- “Isn’t that one of the driving forces behind research like Project Silica? … the ‘important stuff’ can be preserved for millennia.” — rantallion
- “We have those CDs made of stone we could use! That's sorta a stone … thing.” — b112
3. Hittite archaeology, cuneiform tablets, and historical interpretation
- “It is odd here because the surviving records are so much better when you go even a little bit further in the past… We have Judah's side of things recorded in Isaiah, II Kings, and Chronicles… When Nebuchadnezzar II actually succeeded in conquering Jerusalem a century later, we just have the Bible.” — wl
- “The Hittites were one of the largest empires in the ancient world, but up until the last two centuries, the only proper documentation of them was in the Bible…” — schleck8
- “A lot of the surviving tablets are begging letters asking the Egyptians for gold… We even have some practice tablets from teaching Egyptian scribes to do this.” — simonh