@R I just read an article about the #Chalcolithic #VarnaCulture, and I'm blindsided by a substantial #CopperAge European Black Sea culture with such early, developed and ornate metallurgy, the subject of hypotheses of a stratified society mining and serving "elite men," buried in treasure rooms of a necropolis wearing gold penis sheathes and potentially connecting the lower Volga peoples to the Cyclades. Now sunken beneath the sea.

It all feels a bit Robert E. Howard. 😂