My favorite writing project this week: build a better fictional room. Archaeology posts I enjoyed: mysterious Egyptian discoveries and a WWI artifact with heart
I’m off to Tucson Comic-Con this weekend to hang out with fantasy writers. From archaeology around the web this week, an extremely early geometric seal and some “dead sea scroll” forgeries from the Bible Museum
In this week’s post I show how I wrangle order out of chaos in the plotting of my next fantasy novel, and I share two archaeology updates about imaging Linear B and an intact Greek shipwreck that looks just like the “Siren Vase” in the British Museum
Archaeology posts I enjoyed this week: Cycladic figurine find on Santorini and the hand of god, Roman-style from Vindolanda England. Also a video of Leonard Nimoy explaining the Jewish origins of his famous hand gesture as Spock because this Roman hand of god find got me thinking about the universality of divine hand gestures.
Hand of Fire is back in print with a gorgeous new cover. The archaeology post I found fun this week had me daydreaming about which museum basement or storeroom I would most want to sneak into.
My round up of archaeology and history: a sad wolf mummy, a new sphinx and some miniature Neolithic masks and the tale they tell.
Some posts I enjoyed this week, including Babylonian omens in lunar eclipses, the true demise of the Library of Alexandria, early cultic finds at the Cretan palace of Zominthos and sleuthing out a fake cuneiform tablet.
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
