Posts I enjoyed this week: thinking about Dylan as Nobel Laureate, touring Pompeii via 3D, dangerous streets of Rome from Mary Beard, ancient grape seeds in Turkey, Egyptian mummies preserve the heart but not the brain
Some posts I enjoyed this week: 17th C cosmetics w/ lead and patches, writing advice from James Scott Bell on using description to turn readers into fans, an intentionally desecrated gate-shrine uncovered in Israel
Some posts I enjoyed this week from around the web: Kybele statue fr Roman period found in Turkey, Acropolis repairs cause controversy, En-Gedi scroll “read” high tech-style, grammar cartoon
Some posts I enjoyed this week: Godnapping in the Ancient Near East, 8,000 figurine representing “old woman power?”, fringe Briseis, headless sculptures at Göbekli Tepe
Some posts I enjoyed from around the web: Greek vase goes live, metal on an Egyptian boat, everything about Roman stoneworking, Hittite stamp seal from Puduhepa’s hometown and what about those Sea People?
Some posts I enjoyed from around the web this week: the Medicis and multiracial families, recording of Virginia Woolf on words and why writing isn’t a craft, and the 2016 archaeological finds in Bulgaria.
Posts I enjoyed this week: Antinous gets it together, sensible book marketing idea, the whisperers of Belarus, Hurrian Hymn in cuneiform is oldest melody
Here are some posts I enjoyed this week: sensational Bronze Age finds at Hala Sultan Tekke on Cyprus, Roman mosaic of Poseidon in Turkey uncovered, Olympian not Olympic cycling, ancient synagogue in Galilee and the discovery of a secret tunnel at the venerable dig at Alacahöyük Turkey
Some posts I enjoyed this week: One of the Egyptian Sunken Cities from the British Museum exhibit, Why writers help each other, Val McDermid shows class in the face of anti-feminist, new finds in Israel paint a revised view of the Great Revolt
Discover MK Tod’s novel of WWI, TIME AND REGRET
