Stories by benbreen

The vault where Harvard keeps millions of books

What language tells us about the roots of the stone age diet

Why Are We Obsessed with Talking Animals?

Depicting the Medieval Alchemical Cosmos (2013) [pdf]

Reproducing Hollow Cast Medals from a 16th Century Book of Secrets

Nazi Monks Against the Panama Canal (2012)

How did science come to speak only English?

Romancing the Stones: On the winter solstice, modern Druids flock to Stonehenge

Making Drinkable Gold for the King of Siam

Northampton's medieval chess workshop 'first to be found'

Beyond Caste: Identity and Power in South Asia

What Andrew Sullivan's exit says about the future of blogging

The Nebra sky disk

A Brief History of Databases (2014)

Closer to Van Eyck: Rediscovering the Ghent Altarpiece

W. H. Auden's syllabus will make your college courses look like a piece of cake

W.B. Yeats, Magus

An Occult and Alchemical Library

The Bonfire of the Humanities

Genghis Khan's genetic legacy has competition

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