My weekly roundup of posts I enjoyed: Upcoming AIA lecture on the underwater archaeology of Athens and Corinth harbors on Feb 23 in Mesa, AZ, Surgeon’s room with medical tools found in Nea Paphos, Cyprus, DNA of a skeleton found near Troy reveals early evidence of maternal infection, Historical Fiction Round Table on Sophie Schiller’s blog
Here’s my weekly roundup: Mycenaean shaft grave creates a new view of Mycenaean/Minoan relations, Hagia Sophia’s acoustics, Menorah carved into cave indicates a 2nd Temple hideout, Troy gets a museum, 2016 dig finds at Paphos Cyprus
My weekly roundup of posts: silk traces found in Neolithic grave in China, Paphos Cyprus has a mystic and sexual past that’s drawing attention, along with some gorgeous mosaics, Egyptian pot burials get a new interpretation as wombs to the afterlife
My weekly roundup of posts: Medieval well curse kills two, Cycladic sculptures gain a context, Alexander the Great’s soldiers’ tomb open to public, prescription on Egyptian papyrus has intriguing ingredients
My weekly roundup of posts I enjoyed: extinction of the shellfish that produced ancient purple dye, clarification about the lost ancient Greek city–not so lost, Bronze Age grave of girl in elaborate diadem tells a sad story, mythology in Harry Potter
My Weekly roundup of posts: Unknown classical Greek city found, American principles and Genghis Khan, Mesopotamia’s mixed cultural traditions
My weekly roundup: suggestive frescoes at Pompeii opened up for Christmas viewing, Bernard Cornwell interview, hilarious Italian Medieval history at the hands of Tinney Heath, fragment of Hermes on a red figure vase, writing my purpose with some help from Donald Maass
My weekly roundup of posts from around the web: Bronze Age clay figurine like Rodin’s Thinker, Venetian quack medicines, ice mummy man’s clothing choices, mosaic museum’s website, Nefertari’s mummified legs.
My weekly roundup of posts I enjoyed this week: earliest domesticated turkeys offered to gods 1500 yrs ago in Oaxaca Mexico, giant crocodile mummy full of mini-mummies, how-to for FB Book Launch party, New Etruscan tomb finds at Vulci
My weekly roundup of posts I enjoyed this week: Lost works of Greek tragedy might be more about magic, sex and happy endings; cuneiform tablet cookies; Hypatia, Alexandria’s female scholar and Obama’s reflections upon visiting the Acropolis.
