My review of Rebecca Kuang’s The Poppy War. If you love fantasy that is enriched with a deep foundation of history and that asks the biggest questions about how human beings treat each other, then definitely read Rebecca Kuang’s The Poppy War.
Bronze Age Minoan graves uncover intriguing bling and the oldest cheese-making evidence
My roundup of history and archaeology: from a Greek helmet to uncovered Venus and Bronze Age salt mines.
My roundup of history and archaeology: On Crete a humble untouched Bronze Age tomb gives insight into the “regular” folk and in Egypt an early mummy gives up its embalming recipe
My review of The Year-God’s Daughter by Rebecca Lochlann. Lochlann takes her reader into the mythic, mystical world of Minoan Crete with vibrancy and power.
My weekly roundup of history and archaeology: a 4th c BCE pebble mosaic of cupid and swans, “ancient baking” of cuneiform pop-tarblets, an upcoming novel of Troy and Briseis by Man Booker winner Pat Barker
My weekly roundup of history and archaeology: New Bronze Age Cyprus finds that reveal sudden departure of inhabitants in the face of acute danger and a ‘Romeo & Juliet’ burial along with a chariot driven by 2 sacrificed horses fr Bronze Age Kazakhstan
My weekly roundup of history and archaeology: Geophysical survey reveals 15 more temples and 200 standing stones at Turkey’s Göbeklitepe Neolithic site and the most disappointing Egyptian sarcophagus ever reveals its sealed contents.
My roundup of history and archaeology: The earliest bread fr a time before agriculture & a newly excavated Chalcolithic picrolite figurine on Cyprus
My roundup of history and archaeology: new finds on Cyprus fr rural early Bronze Age life to Hellenistic fortifications, Roman-era plaque with lines of Odyssey found, a history of steel (& iron)
