A serialized literary thriller newsletter that pairs fictional field-journal dispatches with real archaeology, geology and natural phenomena, such as the Delphi oracle's gas vents, Mesopotamian demon tablets and the Hessdalen lights. Readers get well-researched historical and scientific background framed as narrative nonfiction.
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A free weekly-style newsletter covering the ancient world, pairing a long guest essay by a scholar with a roundup of new books, discoveries, journals and research. It emphasizes a global view of antiquity and the public role of history.
John Hawks, a paleoanthropologist, writes about human evolution, Neanderthals, ancient DNA and primate behavior, often interpreting new research papers and his own site visits. Readers get expert commentary that places individual discoveries in a wider comparative and scientific context.
A blog presenting research and perspectives on khipus, the knotted-cord record-keeping devices of the Andes, including ethnographic fieldwork, theoretical essays and highlights of new publications. It aims to make khipu studies accessible to non-specialist readers.
A historian and university teacher writes weekly personal essays connecting her course material, such as the ancient world, maps and cosmologies, and medieval Mediterranean history, to wider questions about how we study the past. Readers get accessible reflections on archaeology, periodisation and historical method.
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