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Drunk History with Lyric Lewis, feat Aubrey Plaza: Cleopatra's younger sister, Arsinoe IV, the fierce little girl that made Caesar remove his armor and jump into the sea to escape Alexandria with his life. I honestly learned a thing or two from this vid, lol...

. Indeed, the upper two refs are medieval, the third one is Continental Celts and the last one is a reconstruction of an Irish ringfort from c. 500 AD. Not ideal refs

"Mini-docu" on the Nubian exhibition: Land of the Black Pharaohs in the Drents Museum (Netherlands)

Since Alpha 23 this should be less of an issue. In the match setup, go to AI configuration and set the AI behavior to defensive.

dlc's don't make any sense for a free game though. They're basically a profit maximization tool, which serves no purpose for a free to play open source game created by unpaid volunteers. We actually have a big advantage in this regard over the corporate route which seeks to please investors first and foremost.

This guy's laziness is inspirational...

Just be sure to name them and give a description in the map settings tab, and then save them (under the same name?). Just make sure the name isn't taken yet. It should show up the next time you open Atlas when you click "file", or go to "file" then "open" and it should theoretically be there. The problem is that it's not always the case. If you forget to name the map in the map settings it could disappear or get overwritten or something. But even when being careful, saving different iterations of the same map, each with their own names, and then just loosing them can be a bit disheartening. imo, basically you should only need to name the map once (file name derived from the map name), and when saving a map causes another map to be overwritten, a dialogue box should appear asking you whether you're sure you want to overwrite an existing file. Then at least you have the chance to rename the file and keep both maps. But currently I think files can easily be accidentally overwritten without the amateur map maker's knowledge. Is there an autosave function? Would be great. I sometimes lost maps after hours of neurotic terrain painting, lol... cries inside. So I understand... For terrain painting, use a few similar terrain textures and randomly paint them through each other to avoid repetitive patterns appearing due to texture tiling. The first and third screenshot were purely aesthetic projects and aren't optimized for performance (that amount of grass causes too much lag, we need instancing badly). The middle screenshot of the Nile Valley had, in its final state, a lot of grass and dense tree growth on the river bank but was perfectly playable and kind of fun too. Played a number of matches on it and then it just disappeared after another crash or something (or got randomly overwritten by a previous map, I'm really not sure).

I've never been able to use Atlas without it routinely crashing on me, loosing saved files, unable to use search properly (need an external text editor and then copy paste what I'm searching for into Atlas search) (mods or no mods). It's a pity because with some practice I'm sure I could make a lovely map or two. Making Atlas more intuitive, straightforward and user friendly could engage a lot more community members in map-making.

An interesting presentation on the art and archaeology of Nubia, with Denise Doxey and Lawrence Berman of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston

A pretty impressive 3D flyover of the digitally reconstructed excavated parts of the temple complex at Jebel Barkal: The description says 7th century BC but there seem to be a number structures in this reconstruction that actually date to the 1st century BC.

He's talking about Samaritans, an Israelite population closely related, but distinct from Judaism (think: the Parable of the Good Samaritan, in the Gospel of Luke). According to tradition, they are descendants of the Northern Israelite Tribes who were not deported when the Assyrians conquered Israel in the 8th century BC. I think you mixed them up with Sarmatians, a nomadic confederation of the Eurasian Steppe. Samaritans in Israel form a tiny minority today (less than 1000 people), but were once quite an important regional population, often ruled by the greater powers of the day (Assyrians, Babylonians, Persians, Seleucids, Romans, Arabs, Ottomans, British, Israelis). Apparently many of the Muslim Palestinian people of Nablus are originally of Samaritan descent.

Frog AD Swamps Ascendant Coming to a mod downloader near to you soon!

Das ist sehr schön, wowgetoffyourcellphone...

Wow, beautiful!

A guy speaking English with different English subtitles My brain has also just exploded,

Yeah, variations of it are quite common along the entire Sahara and Sudanic Belt, from Southern Morocco, Mauritania, Senegal in the West, through Mali, Burkina Faso, Southern Algeria, Niger, Northern Nigeria, Southern Libya, Chad, Northern Central African Republic, Sudan, Egypt and parts of the Levant and Arabian Peninsula. Probably has many different names in many different languages. People like Tuareg, Sanhaja and other Berbers (Imazighen), African Arabs (like the Baggara), Egyptian, North African and Middle Eastern Bedouins, Toubou, Zaghawa, Kanembu, Fulani, Hausa and others wear variations of it (some more ornate than others). Mostly worn by nomadic cattle herders and long distance traders, or aristocratic cavalry people. Mostly Muslims wear it, but as the wiki page you linked suggests, I'm also convinced that the look predates the advent of Islam by a long time.

I use mac and the screen always glitches for a second or so after starting a mod. 0AD window closes weirdly by sliding out of screen, to the right, while a black screen slides in from right to left, revealing my desktop for split second and then the 0AD window with mod activated appears on top of the black screen. No other program slides windows in and out of view like that. It doesn't seem to cause any issues though...

Nice... Wouldn't it make a little more sense to give them a higher metal loot when killing units, destroying structures or especially when sinking enemy ships? Ooooh, or give them some kind of unique wololooo ability to "convert" enemy ships when they're under a certain health?

Scythians depicting Scythians in this Electrum vase from the Kul-Oba kurgan, Crimea, 2nd half of 4th century BC. (Hermitage Museum, St Petersburg): Another Scythian golden vessel: Scythians in Achaemenid Persian relief at Persepolis: Another Greek one Some nice art: And a little mythology: "Last charge of the Amazon's", by zpapageo, showing Penthesiliea's army at Troy. Mmmmm, Bronze Age....

Thanks. It was pointed out a little while back. The topic had been archived or something so it wasn't publicly viewable at first. I stumbled upon it by chance over a year ago (was still able to read it through the profile of Shogun144) and was actually pleasantly surprised and impressed, especially for something written 11 years ago! Since then, our collective knowledge on Kushites has evolved, so Shogun's piece has become a little outdated. I'll post a quick commentary with some comments and few corrections:

Ooooh...

Only a handful of their structures are carved from the rock. They're just the most well preserved archaeological remains of Petra which is why they're so famous, but "regular" structures weren't cut from the rock. There are also other archaeological sites like Avdat, Wadi Rum, Haluza, Mapsis and more... Petra: Wadi Rum Avdat (mixed with later ruins) Haluza

@wackyserious, That's the inspiration for the Dahae horse archer used by the Seleucids

@wackyserious, Here's some more Scythian refs: