The valley of the cheese of the dead (atlasobscura.com)

But back then their loss was more localized. the Ancient Egypt state came with a much-changed cultural base, but outside of the reach of that empire lots and lots of people kept their ice age customs. Nowadays much of the world is so uniform that cultural loss is often absolute and final. There are no more barbarians on the fringes of the Swiss state.

Funny you should mention that - try telling people you're a Pagan and you get a similar reaction.

And not remotely connected to the article, the source paper in question, its author, the subject, or even the same century.

Thank you so much! Very cool, and as fascinating an accompaniment to this article as expected. Chrome does a decent job translating this over to English.