Helpful, Harmful and Hallucinogenic Herbs of the Bronze Age
Medicinal plants and Bronze Age medicine.
Bronze Age Shipwreck
A world revealed through a Bronze Age shipwreck off the southern coast of Turkey at Uluburun: treasures and trade patterns brought up from the sea floor by archaeologists.
Introduction to Hittites & Chicago Hittite Dictionary by Theo van den Hout
An excerpted article from the Oriental Institute gives an overview of the Hittite Empire, its modern discovery, and the central role the Chicago Hittite Dictionary plays in Hittitology today.
The Silver Stag Rhyton
For a novelist, a beautiful or mystifying object preserved from the past can trigger an entire scene. An ancient setting with so many exotic and intriguing elements is particularly fruitful this way. I thought when I started writing fiction that my training as a classicist and years of teaching humanities, with its interplay between cultural artifacts, history and literature, had taught me enough to portray a town near Troy on the eve of the Trojan War. Every time a character reaches for something, wears clothes, eats food, travels or sits down, I had to know what might actually have existed—a… Read More »The Silver Stag Rhyton
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