Historians Admit To Inventing Ancient Greeks. WASHINGTON—A group of leading historians held a press conference Monday at the National Geographic Society to announce they had "entirely fabricated" ancient Greece, a culture long thought to be the intellectual basis of Western civilization. The group acknowledged that the idea of a sophisticated, flourishing society existing in Greece more than two millennia ago was a complete fiction created by a team of some two dozen historians, anthropologists, and classicists who worked nonstop between 1971 and 1974 to forge "Greek" documents and artifacts. "Honestly, we never meant for things to go this far," said Professor Gene Haddlebury, who has offered to resign his position as chair of Hellenic Studies at Georgetown University.
"We were young and trying to advance our careers, so we just started making things up: Homer, Aristotle, Socrates, Hippocrates, the lever and fulcrum, rhetoric, ethics, all the different kinds of columns—everything. " "Geometry? A History of the World - List of Objects. A History of the World in 100 objects › The British Museum. The Scientist and the Anarchist - Part III. The latest stop in the #PDEx tour is being hosted by Deborah Blum at her website Speakeasy Science. When an estimated 1,400 match-girls went on strike in July, 1888 to protest for better working conditions, it started a fire that became known as New Unionism. Soon after came the London dock workers’ strike, and within twelve months the UK’s Trade Union Congress had increased its membership from 670,000 to 1,593,000. [1] For Thomas Henry Huxley and Peter Kropotkin these labor developments were interpreted very differently, and yet both saw in them important connections with their work in evolutionary biology.
Huxley, who had pulled himself out of East London poverty through a combination of sheer brilliance and stubborn determination, was greatly concerned about what the workers democracy movement meant for social stability. Read the rest of the post here (also Part I and Part II) and stay tuned for next week's post at Anthropology in Practice. Peter Kropotkin (1902). London labour and the London poor : the condition and earnings of those that will work, cannot work, and will not work : Mayhew, Henry, 1812-1887. Diary Archive (Pepys' Diary) The 19th Century British Library Newspapers website. British Newspapers - Home.