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.
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.
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
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.
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…)
Some posts I enjoyed from around the web this week: Athenian Trireme sails again, Bronze Age Cyprus wowing with size and reach, Tut disappointment, writing from a cartoon
Review of Emily Hauser’s For the Most Beautiful, a novel of the women of Troy.
Here are some posts I enjoyed around the web this week: Shakespeare’s Curtain Theatre excavated, Tarkhan Dress Oldest clothing dated, Mayan ruins or not, MM Bennetts finalists, gallery of historical novels
AZ Historical Novel Society, quail babies and some posts I enjoyed this week around the web: literacy in Pompeii, a huge stash of Roman coins found in Spain and keeping guns out of fairy tales.
Some posts from around the web that I enjoyed this week: the many genres of Cuneiform, mystery of Roman Britain skulls, the worst reading ever (but funniest), 2,500 yr old seals fr Jerusalem
