Here are some posts from around the web that I enjoyed this week:
The British Museum’s exhibit Sunken Cities: Egypt’s Lost Worlds makes me wish I were in London. If you’re there, go see it. But for the rest of us, here’s an article in the Guardian about one of those sunken cities, Thonis-Heracleion, said to be where Helen and Paris landed while running away from Menelaos. Less mythologically, it was a major port in the ancient world. Click here for The Guardian “Lost Cities 6: Thonis Heracleion”
Here’s an article by Jess Lourey and Shannon Baker about why writers help each other and how much it means when they do. Absolutely the foundational truth of the writing life and if you’re a reader and you wonder how writers survive, this tells you. Click here for Women’s Fiction Writers “Why Two Writers Remember Pay it Forward”
This is fun. Val McDermid, taken to task by some goof who hates that she’s a feminist, put him in his place with class and a number of other writers came up with equally intelligent supportive responses. Click here for Mashable “Scottish Writer Sexist Troll Shut Down”
Interesting finds in Israel, indicating the Romans didn’t obliterate the Jewish settlements quite as thoroughly as previously thought after the destruction of the 2nd Temple. This post seems surprised at the presence of mosaics depicting animals etc because it violates the no graven images rule, but there are other early synagogues with similar depictions. I have the impression this wasn’t a followed rule early on. Religions change over time. Click here for New Historian “Jewish Great Revolt Rewritten by New Finds”