Weekly Roundup of Archaeology, History and Historical Fiction August 27-Sept 2
Posts I enjoyed this week: Antinous gets it together, sensible book marketing idea, the whisperers of Belarus, Hurrian Hymn in cuneiform is oldest melody
Posts I enjoyed this week: Antinous gets it together, sensible book marketing idea, the whisperers of Belarus, Hurrian Hymn in cuneiform is oldest melody
Here are some posts I enjoyed this week: sensational Bronze Age finds at Hala Sultan Tekke on Cyprus, Roman mosaic of Poseidon in Turkey uncovered, Olympian not Olympic cycling, ancient synagogue in Galilee and the discovery of a secret tunnel at the venerable dig at Alacahöyük Turkey
Some posts I enjoyed this week: One of the Egyptian Sunken Cities from the British Museum exhibit, Why writers help each other, Val McDermid shows class in the face of anti-feminist, new finds in Israel paint a revised view of the Great Revolt
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