Stories by benbreen

Pleiades is a community-built gazetteer and graph of ancient places

Bouguer’s Halo

The Vesuvius Challenge

Beast in the Blood: Jean Denis and the “Transfusion Affair”

Gloria Dea, Las Vegas magician who vanished into obscurity, has died

A 1,600-Year-Old Coffin May Shed Light on Roman Britain

Abecedarium

Cultus Arborum: A Descriptive Account of Phallic Tree Worship (1890)

First bioanthropological evidence for Yamnaya horsemanship

Elektro, the Moto-Man, Is a Friendly “Frankenstein” (1939)

Picturing Pregnancy in Early Modern Europe

Computers aren’t so smart, after all (1974)

Archaeologists uncover early evidence of brain surgery in Ancient Near East

Dool-Hoff: A Dutch Maze with New Jerusalem at Its Centre (1705)

An online archive of Agrippa: A Book of the Dead

Hope in the Dark: History and Ghost Stories

Pyrrhonism

Levi Walter Yaggy’s Geographical Maps and Charts

Alexander the ‘Accursed’ and Zoroastrianism

A Lost World: On Travis Zadeh’s “Wonders and Rarities”

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