Posts I enjoyed this week from around the web: Reading books lengthens your life, fabric from King David’s reign found preserved in a copper mine and actively defending the passive voice, a grammar geek’s happiness.
Update on September 17 meeting of Arizona Historical Novel Society and my talk on Networking for Authors, given to AZHNS last spring.
Some posts from around the web that I enjoyed this week: a miniature Ceres found fr Roman Britain, learning to write from hummingbirds, identifying the historical context of Athenian shackled remains, the secret language of Victorian fans and tracking down the first chefs.
Here are some posts from around the web that I enjoyed this week: More precise dating of the ancient Near East using tree-ring data, Scythian burial mound reveals extraordinary golden art and modern dance takes up the Trojan War
Here are some posts I enjoyed this week: the infamous ancient Roman prison reopens, fashionable ancient Roman shoe found in a well, stews in ancient Israel and repairing ignorant, racist views of history
Some posts I enjoyed around the web this week: Aeneas’s journey in replica ships, Bamburgh Castle’s Anglo-Saxon cosmopolitan court
Some posts I enjoyed from around the web this week: Game of Thrones cartoon, Mask of Pan’s monumental gate at Hippos, Hittite dig may be Zippalanda, skeleton and coins found at Pompeii
Some posts I enjoyed this week from around the web: Sarah Johnson’s review of Twain’s End, everything about ISBN numbers, history behind forbidden love in Game of Thrones, acoustics of Epidauros Greek theater, Ann Patchett’s 75 best books
Some posts I enjoyed around the web this week: Mystery cults in Roman Britain, interview with Amalia Carosella about Helen of Sparta, digital fatigue and ebooks, the lopsided Great Pyramid of Giza, an Ode to Disappointment
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.
