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May 22, 2019
How to Write Historical Fiction
How to Write Historical Fiction by Julia Herdman Sinclair by Julia Herdman is rated 5 Star on Amazon and Goodreads Find a Good Starting Point: When I wrote my novel, Sinclair, I had no idea where or when to start my story. I had had the idea for a book for a long time, but […]
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May 15, 2019
The Tragic Life of Annia Aurelia Galeria Lucilla
Annia Aurelia Galeria Lucilla was born around 150 AD, to the Roman Emperor Marcus Aurelius and his wife the Empress Faustina the Younger. Lucilla was the elder sister of Emperor Commodus. A character based on Lucilla was the love interest to Russell Crowe in the block buster film Gladiator in 2000 directed by Ridley Scott. In the […]
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May 8, 2019
Questions in Egyptology No. 1 – The Cartouche – what did it protect?
The cartouche is a key symbol in Egyptology, but what did it mean and what did it protect? My new mini-history ‘Champollion’ describes the importance understanding cartouches played in cracking the ancient Egyptian secret code of sacred writing we call hieroglyphics. The article below goes into more detail as to their possible meaning. Introduction […]
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Questions in Egyptology No. 1
The cartouche – protective circle or protective loop? The conventional view of the cartouche in Egyptology was first identified in royal architecture by Flinders Petrie in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Although his chronologies and his views on race have not stood the test of time, Petrie was right in almost every respect […]
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Garden Paintings in Tombs
The Tomb of Nebamun The beautiful illustration above show a garden laid out in typical ancient Egyptian style. The strange but charming perspective is called ‘aspective’ and it is the opposite of our modern western view called ‘perspective’. The aim of the ancient Egyptian artist was to show all the essential details of a thing […]
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Paintings from the tomb of Nebamun
This beautiful illustration is laid out in typical ancient Egyptian style. The strange but charming perspective is called ‘aspective’ and it is the opposite of our modern western view called ‘perspective’. The aim of the ancient Egyptian artist was to show all the essential details of a thing or person from a universal, not a […]
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April 30, 2019
Best Historical Fiction – Five London Based Family Sagas
Tales of Tooley Street This London based historical fiction is set in the London Borough of Southward, the Yorkshire town of Beverley and in Paris and Edinburgh in the late 1780s. Sinclair is the eponymous hero but there are strong female leads including the widow Charlotte Leadam and the farmer’s daughter Lucy Leadam. Sinclair is […]
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Five London Family Sagas
Julia Herdman writes historical fiction. Her debut novel is Sinclair – Tales of Tooley Street Vol 1 Tales of Tooley Stree Is a family saga based around an 18th-century apothecary shop in Tooley Street London. Sinclair is a lonely Scottish doctor down on his luck. He agrees to work in the apothecary shop of a […]
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February 11, 2019
Getting the Pharaoh to the Afterlife
How did the royal priests convince the king he had the golden ticket that would take him to the afterlife? Every ancient Egyptian king required a ticket to the afterlife. To understand how these tickets were made we need to understand the king’s sacred monuments, their design, materials, and decoration, but more importantly we need […]
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December 10, 2018
Forty years of documenting the Great Sphinx of Giza
Forty years of documenting the Great Sphinx of Giza In 1979, Mark Lehner and James Allen started work on the first comprehensive mapping of the Sphinx. They studied its structure and geology and documented every detail they could, from the ancient masonry layers and tool marks to the geological stratification of the surrounding area. Their […]
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