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Historian of the ancient world. Working on imperialism, elite competition, Global Assyria. North Carolinian. PhD @Columbia. Asst. Professor @UnionUniversity.
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🧵Many wild ancestors of domesticated animals are either extinct or critically endangered. Why is this?

Most famous: The Auroch (Bos primigenius) once ranged across Eurasia and is the ancestor of every strain of domesticated cattle (Bos taurus). The last one died in 1627.

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John Russell Pope's rejected Lincoln Memorial designs, 1912:
1) an Egyptian pyramid.
2) a ziggurat.
3) a Maya pyramid-temple.

https://t.co/rW9Hzz8MJN

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