Stories by benbreen

When Did Sex Become Fun? (2016)

It’s Misleading to Call Addiction a Disease

Party like a Sumerian: reinterpreting the ‘sceptres’ from the Maikop kurgan

New Research Tracks Ancient Artifacts Looted by the Nazis

The Trundle

Hallucinogens, alcohol and leadership strategies in the ancient Peruvian Andes

Beastly Clues: T. S. Eliot, Torquemada, and the Modernist Crossword

Prices and wages in Medieval England (2014)

What a Shipwreck’s Tree Rings Reveal

Ultraconserved words point to deep language ancestry across Eurasia (2013)

Gustave Zander and the 19th-Century Gym

An Anatomy of the Blood Eagle: The Practicalities of Viking Torture

The Alchemy of Madness: Understanding a Seventeenth-Century “Brain Scan” (2015)

A Journey Between Worlds (2019)

When Aldous Huxley opened the doors of perception

Genghis Khan’s death: An unsolvable riddle or simply a pandemic disease?

Toba Catastrophe Theory

Sheppard’s Warning

Destination Moon: A 70th Anniversary Appreciation (2020)

Weapons on Ancient Coins

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