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🕵️‍♂️ 🍷 The Great Roman Wine Scam? UCD School of Classics Assistant Professor Conor Trainor's archaeological investigations of ancient wineries at Knossos suggest that Cretan wine producers were deceiving their Roman-era customers with a knock-off wine supplemented with honey. 🐝 "Pliny the Elder described one shortcut for making raisin wine – boiling grape juice in large pots. However, the mixing basins found at Knossos show no evidence of heating. This suggests another possibility: adding honey to wine before packaging. The beehives, excavated from Roman-era pottery kilns and identifiable by their rough interior surfaces designed for honeycomb attachment, hint at a connection between winemaking and honey. Similar discoveries at other Greek sites suggest that honey and wine may have been mixed before shipping." 🥴 ...but did the Romans mind? "The vast quantities of Cretan wine imported into Rome suggest that buyers weren’t too concerned either way. Based on the sheer volume of now-empty wine amphoras from Crete that have been found in archaeological sites in Rome, I suspect that the populous of Rome likely cared less about authenticity than we do today."

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A WW1 Red Cross volunteer. A globe-trotting butler. A selfless servant ❤️ These long-lost postcards, reunited with family decades later, reveal a brave soul with a heart yearning for home ⬇️ Frank William Hills was no ordinary butler. From the halls of British aristocracy to the sun-drenched streets of Egypt, Monte Carlo’s opulence, and the timeless landscapes of Italy, he served members of Parliament, a countess, and even an equerry to King George V. But no matter where his travels took him, he never failed to send postcards home to his beloved wife and young daughter. For years, his family thought these postcards were scattered to time, cherished messages lost forever. Until Jim Rayner bought the postcards at an auction. He runs the Facebook group 'Forgotten Messages Project', which reunites families with old postcards. Through meticulous research, the group traced Frank's great-granddaughter, Laura, and finally returned these lost pieces of their family history. And by delving into his story further, we learned even more about the remarkable man at the centre of this tale. Frank was serving with the British Red Cross when he married Constance Beasley during WW1. By the 1920s, he was a valet to MP John Lawrence Baird, who would later become Governor of Australia. Soon after, Frank found himself in the service of Sir Charles Leopold Cust, an equerry to King George V, journeying with him to Egypt in 1923. As WW2 erupted, Frank was butler to Clare, Countess Cowley. But when tragedy struck in 1949, his courage would define him. As flames engulfed Seagry House, the Countess cried out for help, but the fire had already consumed the stairs. Frank did everything he could, rescuing other staff members from the inferno. Though he couldn’t reach his employer, newspapers of the time hailed him as a hero. Thanks to Jim and his group, this piece of Frank's history is now safely reunited with his family, and his voice speaks again through the very postcards he once sent home. Do you have a quiet hero in your family? We'd love to hear their story ❤️ 📷 PA; Findmypast

🌰 Hazelnuts, History, and the Skeena 🌲 New research is demonstrating that Gitxsan, Tsimshian, and Nisga'a peoples cultivated the beaked hazelnut for at least 7,000 years, reshaping ecosystems and challenging the colonial myth that Indigenous communities in northwestern BC were solely hunter-gatherers. As Chelsey Geralda Armstrong, a co-author of the study, explains, "our research cuts through assumptions of BC and the Northwest Coast being wild and completely untouched." The recently published study indicates the Skeena River had a long history as a "civilization epicentre," aligning with oral histories of Temlaxam, an ancient city near the confluence of the Skeena and Bulkley rivers. The findings not only challenge outdated narratives of pre-colonial life and underscore Indigenous stewardship in shaping ecosystems, but may also bolster land claims by proving a longstanding, intentional connection to these lands. Jacob Beaton, executive director of the Indigenous Food Sovereignty Association noted these findings mean “intentional agricultural-type food production is part of our heritage for longer than ancient Egypt." #IndigenousKnowledge #SkeenaHistory #FoodSovereignty #NorthernBC #Agriculture #NorthwesternCoast