Stories by benbreen

The art of reading in the Middle Ages

Reunited: a Russian manuscript of the Alexander Romance

The Scent of Flavor

The Voyage of Life

Emperor Charles V's code cracked after five centuries

The Huxleys electrified evolution

The Names of All Manner of Hounds: Inventory in a Fifteenth-Century Manuscript

Edgar Allan Poe: Pioneering Mollusk Scientist

The Struggle to Unearth the World’s First Author

Oikema House of Pleasure by Claude-Nicolas Ledoux (2020)

Annie Ernaux turns memory into art

Hand of Irulegi: ancient artefact could help trace origins of Basque language

The expenses of Queen Eleanor of Castile

Ancient wisdom: Oldest full sentence in first alphabet is about head lice

Discovery of bronzes rewrites Italy's Etruscan-Roman history

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)

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