Reply #3: Yet one more example of why I get happy and click when I see one of your posts in GD.

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Learning more about everything real.

Providing historical context.

Expanding our understanding of our history and our heritage and even ourselves.

And, on a purely personal level, for just bringing up memories of my good fortune to have experienced so many such places. Not just Knossos on Crete, but Akrotiri on Thera 3 years after the discovery when my companion argued (she was a force of nature not to be denied) got the archaeologist to go against past practice and give us non-professionals a tour (likely for the first time). It was like entering a nearly intact town that was a close cousin to those we had been seeing everywhere.

Many more countries and sites, but for the great majority of who can't get there in meat world (then I could, now I can't), your posts give a us a way to get close to being there, and access via links and searches to a deeper understanding than given to anyone who ever gets there on a tourist bus and listens to 15 minutes of infotainment.