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Roundup of Archaeology and History March 31-April 6

My weekly roundup of history and archaeology: wine-making by Roman Pliny, real Amazons & other topics of popular ancient history with Adrienne Mayor, exploring a still-buried district in Pompeii

Roundup of Archaeology and History March 24-30

Here’s my roundup of archaeology and history: date of Netflix launch of Troy Fall of a City, ancient pottery around the Baltic Sea shows how women carried cultural change through migratory marriages, the new archaeology of ancient gardens & a pre-Mycenaean chamber tomb in Thessaly

Roundup of Archaeology and History March 15-23

Here’s my round up of archaeology and history that I enjoyed from around the web: Mining big data to study gender in fiction, trade networks and globalism in Bronze Age Anatolia and Assyria, Mesopotamian art styles in King Tut’s treasures, preserving cursed mummies in Egypt

Roundup of Archaeology and History Feb 10-March 9

My roundup of history and archaeology: a lecture on the Delphic Oracle, Roman mosaics found in Caesaria, Troy Fall of a City’s Achilles talks about his part, a cartoon, thinking about awkward moments in the Odyssey in the Paris Review, Roman temples with poison gas emissions and playing with Roman dice.

Roundup of Archaeology and History Feb 3-9

My roundup of archaeology and history with some Fantasy/SciFi tossed in: color perception & language in ancient Near East and Greek, the blue-eyed, black skinned face of the first Brit & a short story in honor of libraries

Roundup of Archaeology and History Jan 24-Feb 2

My roundup of archaeology and history: Archaeology lecture for Phoenix area, Urusula LeGuin’s “remarkable spirit”, info about BBC/Netflix show Troy: Fall of a City, Reese Witherspoon on “female heroes that have always been in the shadows and now are coming into the light,” and the earliest ochre “crayon” found under a peat bog/ancient lake

Roundup of Archaeology and History Jan 9-19

My roundup of history and archaeology: a Roman game board uncovered in Slovakia, catching up on the ancient mundane via papyrus mummy casing, an amazing resource website on race in the ancient world & pottery shard depicting a Parthenon scene comes clean in the Galilee with Athena emerging from Zeus’s head (patriarchy at it again?)

Roundup of Archaeology and History Dec 9-Jan 5

My roundup of history and archaeology: 6 Sci-fi/fantasy writers on what these genres offer to a world gone mad, the tale of an Iraqi archaeological site including griffins, evidence of human sacrifice in Greece, Netflix and the BBC’s series on the Trojan War, and Archaeology Magazine’s top 10 discoveries of 2017