I hope to see you at the Tucson Festival of Books this weekend. Here are some posts I enjoyed around the web this week: Roman mosaics in Turkey, Etruscan tomb finds, deciphering Greek papyri, tel Kabri site reveals a possible winery, how to use backstory brilliantly
A delightful time at Left Coast Crime and some posts I enjoyed from around the web: chance find of Clovis people and mammoth, learning dialogue, 31 Mycenaean burials
Join me Feb 25-28 at Left Coast Crime. Here are some posts from around the web that I enjoyed this week: badger turns Bronze Age archaeologist, Roman restaurant in France, the Homer reading club talks Achilles and Harper Lee memories.
Some posts I enjoyed this week: interview with Andrew Levkoff re his Roman series, Mycenaean mine in Greece, interview with Priscilla Royal by Sharon Kay Penman and the Met colorizes the Temple of Dendur
Posts I enjoyed around the web this week: Pompeii’s casts get new life, prehistory of domesticated cats in China, Mayan Codices from Elle Jauffret and new ideas & old myth busting about Vikings.
I had a great time at the San Diego State University Writers’ Conference, details inside. Here are some posts I enjoyed this week: ancient footprints found near Tucson, new findings fr a venerable, excellent archaeological dig in Turkey, Çatalhöyük, linguists date your childhood fairytales to the Bronze Age, and an overview article about Hittites (in case you haven’t yet got the picture from this website…)
Catch up on Windy Lynn Harris’ great AZ HNS talk about getting short prose published. You can find a detailed write up by Kristen McQuinn. Also some posts I enjoyed around the web this week: cattish, deadly book humor, Laura Kelley on a Phoenician platter fr the Silk Road and King Midas gets a golden exhibit.
Some posts I enjoyed this week around the web: Cynthia Robertson on what makes a book brilliant, Bronze Age find in Britain preserved liked Pompeii, what the Iliad tells us about war from Caroline Alexander, Maya royal burial at El Zotz and book humor.
There’s still time to attend the San Diego State University Writers’ Conference. Here are some posts I enjoyed this week: New temple found on Acropolis, old ship found buried in Alexandria Virginia, Etruscan lecture sponsored by the AIA, astronomical dating of Odysseus?
Some posts I enjoyed around the web this week: the latest finds at Hala Sultan Tekke Cyprus, underwater archaeology at Corinth Greece, the desert year in review by Melissa Crytzer Fry & a smuggled Hittite Seal comes to Çorum.
