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Mesopotamian Recipes in the Yale Babylonian Collection https://news.yale.edu/2018/06/14/what-did-ancient-babylonians-eat-yale-harvard-team-tested-their-recipes

Happy Canada Day!

Old post: Some thoughts on Josho Brouwers' "Henchmen of Ares," a popular book on early Greek warfare https://bookandsword.com/2014/03/23/some-thoughts-on-brouwers-henchmen-of-ares/

Lucas Reilly has a long article on the Beale Papers, a set of unsolved ciphertexts which first appeared in 1885 in a pamphlet promising that they lead to buried treasure https://mentalfloss.com/article/540277/beale-ciphers-buried-treasure

PhD Comics reveals the secret of the academic summer life: http://phdcomics.com/comics/archive.php?comicid=2013

If you wonder what conferences in Alexander studies are like, I have a report on Monarchy and Power in Ancient Macedonia https://bookandsword.com/2018/06/23/monarchy-and-power-in-ancient-macedonia/

For the Europeans: have any of you encountered an online store which diverts you to payment processors which want your banking PIN? That seems crazy but people do crazy things with their smartphones for 'convenience.'

Old post: the ancient story of Stephen Hawking's tombstone https://bookandsword.com/2018/03/26/the-ancient-story-of-stephen-hawkings-tombstone/

Pretty good popular article on the Aegean Dendrochronology Project and the search for an absolute chronology of the Ancient Near East https://www.timesofisrael.com/upstart-carbon-dating-study-could-rewrite-holy-lands-biblical-timeline/

For the SF fans (with subtext about the politics of book reviewing) some thoughts on "The Cosmic Computer" https://bookandsword.com/2018/03/10/some-thoughts-on-the-cosmic-computer/

Oxbow Books has a sale on, I picked out some titles that my readers might be interested in https://bookandsword.com/2018/06/08/sale-at-oxbow-books/

And on the open access front: free monograph "Textile Terminologies from the Orient to the Mediterranean and Europe, 1000 BC to 1000 AD" https://digitalcommons.unl.edu/zeabook/56/" =Someone= has to pay for the server forever though ... #openaccess

For the first time, one of my scholarly articles has been printed! http://ancienthistorybulletin.org/purchase-articles-from-volume-30 I have had proofs sitting with other publishers since 2013. I can see why many people recommend that you don't even think about conference proceedings/edited collections/companions until you get tenure- journals like AHB are much more prompt. #shamelessselfpromotion

The dragon of the Bagradas River https://www.ancientworldmagazine.com/articles/regulus-bagradas-dragon/

Good long post on how archives select material #canadiancontent https://peelarchivesblog.com/2018/04/04/what-do-archivists-keep-or-not/

A friend got a TT jobin his home country after years of teaching as a sessional at several different places.

Old Post: When the Bronze is Like a Mirror, on the Freilichtmuseum Heuneburg https://bookandsword.com/2014/05/03/when-the-bronze-is-like-a-mirror/

The file copy of my Master's thesis is missing the last few pages of bibliography. Glad I used "Stolper, Entrepreneurs and Empire, p. xxx" citations not "Stolper 1989" citations! #imeanttodothat

Some good armouring books (and a criminal publisher) https://bookandsword.com/2018/05/26/some-good-armouring-books/

What are two or three of your favourite web projects in your field? For me I could mention Encyclopaedia Iranica http://www.iranicaonline.org/ (free scholarly encyclopedia!) Achemenet http://www.achemenet.com/fr/ (database of sources in the original!) and http://www.livius.org/ (popular encyclopedia by a teacher and writer in the Netherlands)