Stories by benbreen

50 years ago, an artist exhibited an invented Iron Age civilization

Alexander the Great in Firdawsi's Book of Kings

Shadows from the Walls of Death (1874)

An experimental approach to lighting systems in Paleolithic caves

The Oldest Surviving Printed Advertisement in English (2019)

What's in the Hathi Trust?

The Essential Philip K. Dick

A lift-the-flap book, 18th century style

The Solitude of Alexander Selkirk (2007)

Something’s jellyfishy in the state of Italy

"The Social Network" synth sounds

Robert De Niro’s Career in Five Artifacts

Whiffstory: Using Multidisciplinary Methods to Represent the Olfactory Past

Researcher discovers another astronomy book written by Galileo Galilei

Splinters to splendours: from upcycled glass to Viking beads at Ribe, Denmark

America’s lost crops rewrite the history of farming

Gauss's Pythagorean right triangle proposal

Neolithic culinary traditions revealed by pottery from Scottish crannogs

The Brain on Psychedelics

Weldon Kees: On “Aspects of Robinson” (1998)

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