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Adding to my editing tools as a writer. In archaeology news, Anatolian female “fertility” figurine and Zominthos’ treasures revealed.

Watch “A conversation with Judith Starkston” on Second Sunday Books. In archaeology news, the shrinking alpine glaciers reveal fragile archaeology.

Hand of Fire is back in print with a gorgeous new cover. The archaeology post I found fun this week had me daydreaming about which museum basement or storeroom I would most want to sneak into.

My round up of archaeology and history: a sad wolf mummy, a new sphinx and some miniature Neolithic masks and the tale they tell.

Some posts I enjoyed this week, including Babylonian omens in lunar eclipses, the true demise of the Library of Alexandria, early cultic finds at the Cretan palace of Zominthos and sleuthing out a fake cuneiform tablet.

My roundup of history and archaeology: On Crete a humble untouched Bronze Age tomb gives insight into the “regular” folk and in Egypt an early mummy gives up its embalming recipe