Weekly Roundup of Archaeology, History and Historical Fiction July 9-15
Some posts I enjoyed around the web this week: Aeneas’s journey in replica ships, Bamburgh Castle’s Anglo-Saxon cosmopolitan court
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Weekly Roundup of Archaeology, History and Historical Fiction July 2-8
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
Weekly Roundup of History, Archaeology and Writing Wisdom June 25- July 1
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
Weekly Roundup of History, Archaeology and Writing Wisdom June 18-24
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
Weekly Roundup of History, Archaeology and Writing Wisdom June 11-17
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.
Weekly Roundup of History, Archaeology and Writing Wisdom June 4-10
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.
Review of Daughter of Sand and Stone by Libbie Hawker
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.
Weekly Roundup of History, Archaeology and Writing Wisdom May 28-June 3
Posts I enjoyed from around the web this week: Hamilton, the Revolution as writing guide, Roman bones reveal widespread arthritis, Tut’s outer space dagger, Mesopotamian Foundation Figures at the Morgan & a Classics librarian goes punk
What’s New and Old and Read All Over? The state of fiction set in the ancient world
I recently conducted a series of interviews with many writers of fiction set in the ancient world and put together one of the cover articles for Historical Novels Review. Ordinarily you need to be a member (which I highly recommend you become!) to read the magazine, but I’m allowed to post it here as an enticement.
Weekly Roundup of History, Archaeology and Writing Wisdom May 21-27
Some personal news, Hand of Fire is transitioning to a new publishing home and some posts I enjoyed from around the web: the excavations of Shakespeare’s Curtain theatre continue to surprise and a paper arguing that Roman women had more independence than we thought. (kind of depends on what you thought…)