Some posts from around the web that I enjoyed this week: a miniature Ceres found fr Roman Britain, learning to write from hummingbirds, identifying the historical context of Athenian shackled remains, the secret language of Victorian fans and tracking down the first chefs.
Here are some posts from around the web that I enjoyed this week: More precise dating of the ancient Near East using tree-ring data, Scythian burial mound reveals extraordinary golden art and modern dance takes up the Trojan War
Here are some posts I enjoyed this week: the infamous ancient Roman prison reopens, fashionable ancient Roman shoe found in a well, stews in ancient Israel and repairing ignorant, racist views of history
Some posts I enjoyed around the web this week: Aeneas’s journey in replica ships, Bamburgh Castle’s Anglo-Saxon cosmopolitan court
Some posts I enjoyed from around the web this week: Game of Thrones cartoon, Mask of Pan’s monumental gate at Hippos, Hittite dig may be Zippalanda, skeleton and coins found at Pompeii
Some posts I enjoyed this week from around the web: Sarah Johnson’s review of Twain’s End, everything about ISBN numbers, history behind forbidden love in Game of Thrones, acoustics of Epidauros Greek theater, Ann Patchett’s 75 best books
Some posts I enjoyed around the web this week: Mystery cults in Roman Britain, interview with Amalia Carosella about Helen of Sparta, digital fatigue and ebooks, the lopsided Great Pyramid of Giza, an Ode to Disappointment
Some posts I enjoyed from around the web this week: a list of 21 historical novels you may not have read but should, new monument at Petra found and a video reconstructing Patroclus’s pyre fr Eleutherna, Crete”s new museum and archaeological dig.
Posts from around the web that I enjoyed this week: Earliest Roman writing in London rises from the mud, what’s the difference between literary and commercial fiction? Roman curse tablets from Britain (my we’re getting very “early literary” fr Britain this week…), a writer’s cartoon and the shipwreck archaeological site where the Antikythera mechanism was found gets a new more technologically capable look.
In Daughter of Sand and Stone, Libbie Hawker brings us the timely story of Zenobia, an ancient queen of Palmyra, the beautiful ruins of which city ISIS recently destroyed. My review of this lush and vivid novel.
