Stories by benbreen

Magicians Mount Search for Woman Behind Decades-Old Deception

With DNA, Pompeii Narratives Take a Twist

Reconstruction of Lomonosov's Discovery of Venus's Atmosphere (2012) [pdf]

The Brothers Grimm: A Biography

Diving to Drink a 19th-Century Shipwreck's Treasure

A Very Deep History of Halloween

The Frankfurt Kitchen (2011)

Post-postal: What did we lose when we stopped writing letters?

What Makes Good Historical Fiction?

The Roman Catholic War on Wigs

Deep learning-based detection of qanat water systems using spy satellite imagery

On 17th century "cocaine"

Age of Invention: The Coal Conquest

Bronze Age cheese reveals human-Lactobacillus interactions over history

Yasuke

The User Manual for the Oldest Surviving Computer in the World (2020)

Giovanni Francesco Gemelli Careri

Aliens and the Enlightenment

How to make 3k-year-old beer

Excuse this ghastly handwriting: When letter writers become self-conscious

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