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A mummy gets a name (& later maybe a face) in the Perth Museum. Modern multi-disciplinary team goes to work on a gem of a mummy. Who says ancient history doesn’t change? It’s one of the most dynamic fields today. Link here
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WWI at its most compelling and lyrical. One of my favorite authors, Elizabeth Speller, has a new bk out, At Break of Day (US title: The First of July). I haven’t read it yet (: but Kate’s review on For Winter Nights blog is great. Link here
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Largest Ancient Library Uncovered: Kültepe, Turkey, the site where writing first appears in Anatolia, brought from Assyria well before the Hittite Empire, turns out to contain the largest library of tablets in all of Anatolian and Near Eastern digs, 23,500 and growing with each season’s finds. Now for the translating! Have you ever looked closely at cuneiform tablets? Roughly resembling bird tracks to most of us… Link here
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Need to kill someone off (fictionally)? Murderous Plants: 3 deadly choices from history by Kim Rendfeld on Unusual Historicals. Link here
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Laughter is good: Dogs + Books = funny cartoon via Janet Rudolph Link here
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What happens when biology is applied to folktales? Using phylogenetic mathematical models, an anthropologist has tracked the origins of Little Red Riding Hood. Red Riding Hood shares a common but ancient root with The Wolf and the Kids, another international folk tale , although the two are now distinct stories. “This is rather like a biologist showing that humans and other apes share a common ancestor but have evolved into distinct species,” explained Dr Tehrani, who found that The Wolf and the Kids probably originated in the 1st century AD, with Little Red Riding Hood branching off 1,000 years later. Link here