Thanks to the Melbourne Museum, you can relive the destruction of Pompeii from your smart phone or computer. Buried and thus frozen in time by the eruption of Mount Vesuvius in 79 AD, the ancient Roman town of 11,000 has provided… Continue Reading
As the “Ladies of Force and Fire” also known as the US GL Women’s Conference fast approaches, I thought that it would be appropriate to share a wonderful collection of letters that is on-line free to explore. The Epistolae are… Continue Reading
Archaeologists have begun to search for the remains of Henry Ist. Unlike Richard IIIrd we know that Henry I was buried somewhere in Reading Abbey. The problem lies is that during the reign of Henry the VIIIth, that he dissolved… Continue Reading
Smithsonian reports that on June 23 only, Oxford University’s Bodleian Library will exhibit a rare map of Middle Earth, annotated by J.R.R. Tolkien himself. Writer Erin Blakemore notes, “The map is as rare as they come—a working copy that documents the… Continue Reading
Don Henley’s interview with David Browne, published in Rolling Stone this month, relates stories about The Eagles and how their 1972 debut album came together. Stories of Zelda Fitzgerald, sounds of chirping birds, Ouija boards, séances, palm reading, peyote trips and more meld to create… Continue Reading
The metro Line C in Rome has been plagued with problem that every archaeologist wants that they keep finding new Roman archaeology. Rome is now making a museum to start housing what they find and trying to incorporate the site… Continue Reading
Remnants of a dress belonging to Queen Elizabeth I may have been found in an altar cloth in Herefordshire. The fabric at St Faith’s Church in Bacton has been identified by experts as a piece of a 16th Century dress. … Continue Reading
Trasmoz, is a tiny village situated in the foothills of the Moncayo mountain range in Aragon. The village has a strange, centuries-long history of association with witchcraft. This started as a ruse to cover the manufacture of counterfeit coins in… Continue Reading
On from April 16, 2016 until Sunday, 12 March 2017, the Victoria and Albert Museum will display skivvies from the 18th Century until today: corsets, bras, hosiery, jock straps, girdles, thongs, and more. The exhibit explores how undergarments both shaped and… Continue Reading
Yuval Harari’s Jewish Magic before the Rise of Kabbalah will be published in English translation in February 2017 by Wayne State University Press. According to the publisher’s website, “Magic culture is certainly fascinating. But what is it? What, in fact,… Continue Reading