Stories by benbreen

Rescuing Ancient Seeds from a War-Torn City

The Serpent in the Sword: Pattern-Welding in Early Medieval Swords (1997) [pdf]

Fact-checking Byzantine astrologers

Eat Dirt

The story of a shy academic

The Journal That Couldn’t Stop Citing Itself

Adriaen Coenen’s Fish Book (1580)

Steganography: How to Send a Secret Message (2001)

How to Make Ink in the Middle Ages

The Hottest Restaurant of 2081

Small Man on Campus: William Carlos Williams' Letters from University

Rachel Laudan on the History of Food and Cuisine

British Library crowdsourcing translation of a 13th-century sword inscription

Aztec Mexico (2007)

The Elmore Leonard Story

A 17th-Century Woman Artist’s Butterfly Journey

The British Library Puts Over 1M Images in the Public Domain

How the Iran Deal Affects Ordinary People’s Lives in Iran

Friendly Robots of the Soviet Union (2014)

Alien Nuclear Wars Might Be Visible from Earth

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